Bussiness Process, Integration Process, cc-BPM, BPM

Hello Everybody!!! Please help me!
1) In XI, Business Process = Integration Process = cc-BPM = BPM ??? Are these four the same thing?
2) Please tell me if I'm wrong: we have two types of message exchange in XI, stateless (through simple message exchange) and (ii) statefull (with BPM). There is no other type, ok?
thank you
Julio

Hi Julio,
This is an excerpt from one of the posts:-
BPM- Business Process Management- in XI BPM and ccBPM interchangeably used. for more on BPM- as an SAP standpoint or Business Process level - -/people/thomas.volmering/blog/2005/09/21/welcome-to-the-new-bpm-corner
ccBPM- Cross Component BPM -
https://sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/xi/archive-xi_ppts_internal_etc/sap%20netweaver%20rig%20webinar%20-%20cross-component%20business%20process%20management%20with%20xi%203.0.pdf
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/3c/831620a4f1044dba38b370f77835cc/frameset.htm
Hope this helps.
Regards.
Praveen

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