About 99% of the effort in drafting the BPMN 2.0 standard, and 95% of the bad rap it has received, relates to “executable” BPMN 2.0 models. It’s been over a year since publication of the final spec, and it seems that executable BPMN 2.0 tools don’t really exist yet. I hope I’m wrong. For years [...]
IBM is the big dog in the BPMS landscape. BPM 7.5 combines the old WebSphere Lombardi Edition and WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (aka Process Server) in a single offering. More than two separate products in a single box, there is real integration under the covers, in the form of a shared Process Center repository. Find [...]
I have been listening to the chatter about Open Text’s recent acquisition of Global 360. Here is my take on it. Both companies historically have followed a rollup strategy – acquiring content management and workflow companies with a decent installed base but low growth, and then mostly leaving them alone. Unlike, say Oracle’s acquisition or [...]
Uniting Lombardi’s business-empowered process tooling with WPS horsepower and integration was a brilliant move by IBM, one that makes them, in my view, the clear BPMS thought leader (in addition to #1 in market share). But I am willing to bet that if you took IBM’s top 20 BPM customers and had a way of [...]
Clay (Coat o’Paint) Richardson and I have agreed to disagree about whether IBM Business Process Manager’s having two process engines is a bad thing (sez he) or a don’t-care (sez I). In the analyst session at Impact today, it wasn’t really clear if the two-engine approach is the long-term answer or just all they can [...]
Last summer I posted on the challenge of achieving process model interchange via the BPMN 2.0 standard. In the half year since then, vendor progress toward that goal has been about zero. It seems that vendors, in particular the ones that drove the standard, don’t really care about this most fundamental user expectation of any [...]
One of the oldest BPMS’s around is one you may not have heard of: AWD from DST Technologies. If you send in a check to fund your retirement account or pay an insurance premium, chances are good that AWD is running the process to handle that transaction and the customer service surrounding it. Up to [...]
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