bruce on July 14th, 2008

This is starting to get good.  Let’s face it, not many people care about BPM standards, other than wouldn’t it be nice if we could agree on some.  I’m really no different, although at this point I would admit to having a vested interest in getting quickly to a version of BPMN that was portable [...]

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bruce on July 11th, 2008

Conrad Bock of NIST picks up the defense of BPDM where Fred Cummins left off.  Since I don?t see much other discussion on the web about this important topic, I?m going to renew the thread here.  Here are Conrad?s points: The calls for a BPMN metamodel started two or three years ago, including OMG reopening [...]

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bruce on June 23rd, 2008

Having long held the inside track, the BPDM camp has felt little need to advocate publicly for its vision for BPMN 2.0.  However, with united opposition from IBM, SAP, and Oracle, EDS’s Fred Cummins, co-chair of the BMI task force in OMG (responsible for BPMN and other BPM standards), has begun something of a public defense.  His first [...]

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bruce on May 6th, 2008

Since my recent post, a bit more has dribbled out into the blogosphere about the negotiations over BPMN 2.0, most of it completely off track.  But now SAP’s David Frankel, definitely an insider, is shining a welcome light in those dark spaces with his BPMN 2.0 Update.  The biggest difference between the two submissions is in how [...]

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