See Business Process Improvement (BPI)

Business Process Improvement. Business process improvement focuses on incrementally improving existing processes. There are many approaches, including Six Sigma. BPI is focused and repeated during the life of a process.

Business Performance Intelligence. A subset of the BI market and involves planning and budgeting, Balanced Scorecard performance management and activity-based costing.

Business Process Integration. The use of technology to integrate systems in a way that enables end-to-end business process to flow across applications. This is very similar to BPM, except without the business level management capabilities. If the tool does not include a business level dashboard, process analytics, the ability to define and track business metrics across a process, impact analysis, simulation, or other management level capabilities, it's BPI tool and not a BPM tool.

See business process interoperability

Business Process Integration - defining, enabling and managing the exchange of enterprise information through the semantics of a business process view. BPI comprises three core facets: Process Modeling, Process Brokering, and Process Management. BPI is a strategic approach, EAI is a tactical approach. Also Business Process Improvement