| BPEL | Workflow foundation |
| It is a language for defining business process behavior based on web services. | It is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on windows. |
| It is process centric. | It is human centric. |
| It can be used for composite web service. | It can be used for user interface-page centric flow, document-centric workflow and composite workflow applications. |
| It cannot define the graphical representation of processes. | It can be defined graphically. |
