bruce on November 15th, 2011

It was a longer wait than I expected, but in BPM 7.5.1, IBM is now providing real BPMN 2.0 support.  I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet or look at the documentation – I think GA is later this week – but I got the briefing from the team.  And I have [...]

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bruce on November 3rd, 2011

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 [...]

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bruce on April 11th, 2011

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 [...]

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Today at Impact IBM announced their next-generation BPMS called IBM Business Process Manager v7.5.  At heart it is the unification of WebSphere Lombardi Edition (fka Teamworks) and WebSphere Process Server.  Some have called it just “a new coat of paint” on the existing offerings, because the (Lombardi) Process Designer and the (WPS) Integration Designer tools [...]

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bruce on February 26th, 2011

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 [...]

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bruce on November 29th, 2010

With the recent launch of Blueworks Live, IBM has posted an updated version of a set of training videos called Process Mapping 101.  Together with colleague Shelley Sweet of I4 Process, I created the original set for Lombardi back in 2008 , and the new version updates it to Blueworks Live.  This one doesn’t focus [...]

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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 May 18th, 2010

Scott Francis takes me to task a bit for not completely buying IBM’s public mass ingestion of the Lombardi Kool-Aid in Las Vegas a couple weeks back.  I have to admit, however, that I did come away from the event with a different notion of how Lombardi will ultimately be incorporated into the WebSphere BPM [...]

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bruce on May 4th, 2010

Not a lot of BPM news out of IBM at Impact this week.  The most surprising thing for me about it is how thoroughly Lombardi – acquired just a few months ago – has enthralled the WebSphere executives.  At the opening keynote, WebSphere GM Craig Heyman called Lombardi Teamworks, rebranded IBM WebSphere BPM Lombardi Edition, [...]

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