They would say they never left it, but from a marketing perspective Savvion is suddenly re-emerging from a quiet period with the introduction of version 7.5 and related vertical application initiatives. Since the beginning of the year they have been able to right the ship financially – reporting 6% net profit for the fiscal year, and 16% [...]
At Oracle Open World yesterday, industry analysts got a good look at Oracle’s BPM strategy and roadmap in the wake of the BEA acquisition. Overall, my conclusion is Oracle is showing the rest of the world the right way to do software acquisitions. BPM is progressing along the path of “interoperate, integrate, unify” that Oracle claims it [...]
Are you as sick as I am of so-called “architects” swiftboating BPM with phony strawman arguments? Here’s the latest, from blogger Nick Malik: I like point out really nutty ideas, even when a lot of people have spent a lot of time investing in them…. [BPM] created pretty languages for describing business processes, and we [...]
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Today Oracle lifted the veil on its plans for BEA. Naturally, Oracle said the acquisition as a whole was not just for market share, but for BEA’s technology, which would all become part of the Fusion middleware platform. There was a lot of material presented, but I’ll focus on the product convergence plan as it [...]
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 [...]
Did you know Adobe had a BPMS? Most people don’t, even though with over 5000 customers they could be considered a major player. One reason people don’t know about Adobe and BPM is that the company doesn’t talk about it in the usual way. In fact, it treats the normal catalog of BPMS features and [...]
A lot of speculation about the fate of BPM and other BEA goodies after what Sandy calls “the Borg” has its way with them. Oracle will reveal all in a public webcast on July 1 at 9am PT/noon ET. To the analysts they wrote: On July 1st at Noon EDT/9:00 am PDT/5:00 pm in London, [...]
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I see my friend Jesper is moving on from BEA, so the reality of the Oracle acquisition is finally sinking in. When I hear people say that Oracle bought BEA for their BPM, I have to laugh. I’m fairly confident the Oracle crew that went after BEA could not even spell BPM. But no doubt [...]
Surprisingly little information has reached public view concerning BPMN 2.0, now under consideration in OMG. Unlike most standards approval processes, the outcome of this one is not preordained. There are two submissions, quite different, and it could go either way. Oracle’s Vishal Saxena notes that one reason BPMN 1.x has been so successful is that it [...]
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