bruce on October 19th, 2010

Confused about Lombardi Edition vs WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition?  This white paper will help you sort it out.

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This is the one based on WebSphere Process Server.  Get the white paper here.

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bruce on June 23rd, 2010

Last week I had the chance to stop by Pegasystems in Cambridge for a briefing.  As usual, I came away impressed with what they had to show. Pega is an anomaly in the BPM market.  They always win the BPMS MQs and Waves, but 70% of their systems are sold to people who did not [...]

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bruce on June 21st, 2010

In the past couple years TIBCO kind of dropped off my BPMS radar screen.  They don’t put a lot into marketing, and in BPM I don’t think they had that much to say anyway.  Last week I got a briefing on the new ActiveMatrix BPM, and my impression is TIBCO is finally back as a [...]

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bruce on June 9th, 2010

Ismael Ghalimi of Intalio is still a young man but one of the founding fathers of modern BPM.  Maybe the founding father.  Anyway, today he briefed me on what he says he was aiming for all along, a project called Helium.  It’s BPM, it’s a database application builder, it’s CRM and case management, document management, [...]

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bruce on May 27th, 2010

Most of the changes between BPMN 1.2 and BPMN 2.0 have to do with extending it from a diagramming notation to a language for executable process design.  Both my book BPMN Method and Style and the training that goes along with it deal with non-executable models, what I call Levels 1 and 2.  Level 1 [...]

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I want to call your attention to three recent white papers I’ve written and posted on the site.  They are all free downloads available to anyone registered on BPMS Watch.  All three deal with the new generation of tools available to help users get started in BPM and bridge the once-formidable divide between business process [...]

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bruce on April 22nd, 2010

BPA and BPM Suites have long been ships passing in the night.  A few BPMS vendors, like Oracle and IBM, have made efforts to integrate BPA with executable processes, but even there the fact that BPA and BPMS tools are based on different process metamodels has made roundtripping less than ideal.  Appian and Mega have [...]

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bruce on January 11th, 2010

This morning Progress Software announced the acquisition of Savvion for $49 Million.  On the heels of last month’s acquisition of Lombardi by IBM, I think it’s safe to say this marks a real turning point in the market for BPMS.  To me it is a disquieting one, as it suggests the failure of BPM’s “business [...]

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bruce on October 13th, 2009

Two weeks ago Appian launched version 6 of its BPMS, along with a rebooted online collaboration network called Appian FORUM and a suite of professional services offerings.  Appian plays in the human-centric business-empowered end of the BPMS vendor landscape along with Lombardi and Savvion.  With all the vendors now claiming ease of use, Appian’s new [...]

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