At this week’s SAP Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas, BPM is definitely off the main track. The only other BPM analyst here that I recognized is Jim Sinur of Gartner. The keynote sessions were all about HANA, SAP’s new in-memory analytics platform that is the key to reinvigorating the entire SAP portfolio (at least [...]
Based on a very successful July class, with 35 students, including several from Europe and Asia, we’re going to do another one in September. Save the date – BPMN Method and Style training, live online on September 19, 20, and 21 from 11am-4pm ET (8am-1pm PT, or 5pm-10pm Europe time). The class will leverage some [...]
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Interest in BPM training and certification is accelerating, and being able to understand and create BPMN process models has become a critical foundation skill. We’ve set the dates for the next 3-day virtual classroom: July 11, 12, and 13 from 11am-4pm ET (8am-1pm PT, or 5pm-10pm Europe time). Check out Sandy Kemsley’s review of the [...]
Today Software AG announced a tight integration between ARIS, its leading Business Process Analysis suite, and webMethods, its SOA-based BPM Suite. The integration features roundtripping and continuous synchronization between business-oriented and developer-oriented models in those tools. The medium of interchange is BPMN 2.0 XML. Although the vast majority of existing ARIS assets are in the [...]
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I rarely get comments on my obscure techie BPMN 2.0 posts, but this one seems to have legs. Kris Verlaenen of jBPM has a thoughtful response, posted both as a comment to mine and on his own site (to show a diagram). He says, It seems to me, from reading the specification, that data input [...]
As result of some spirited back and forth on my previous post with FTF member Camunda, plus response from Oracle (original BPMN 2.0 Examples team member), I have a bit more information on the intent and usage of process dataInput in BPMN 2.0, and whether it can have incoming and/or outgoing data associations in BPMN [...]
I have been working on rounding out the BPMN Interoperability (BPMN-I) spec and tool in the area of data flow, and I am puzzled by a fundamental concept where the BPMN 2.0 spec and non-normative “BPMN by Example” documents disagree. I wrote to the experts on the BPMN 2.0 committee but have not heard back, [...]
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I have run across 5 BPMS vendors interested in my BPMN-I work: Activiti, BonitaSoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM. Of the five, BonitaSoft is so far the most successful in actually implementing BPMN 2.0-based model interchange. Not only that, they are the only one so far that has implemented any of my suggestions for conforming to [...]
The most basic user expectation for any language “standard” is interoperability between tools. BPMN 1.x, however, never provided a standard interchange format. For years, WfMC filled that gap with XPDL, an XML format originally developed for interchanging process models between proprietary workflow tools. With each new version of the BPMN spec, Robert Shapiro and, more [...]
Yesterday I got a look at SAP’s BPM v7.3, now in “ramp-up” (extended beta). I hadn’t heard much lately about SAP in the BPM area, so I was really surprised to see how far they have come. The new offering, called the “Process Orchestration Solution”, combines NetWeaver BPM, focused on human tasks, and NetWeaver Process [...]
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