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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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 29th, 2010

A year ago around this time IBM launched BPM BlueWorks, a collaborative BPM learning environment in the cloud where users could read about BPM, set up their own private workspaces, and use free IBM tools for “process discovery.”  Since then it has pretty much stayed below the radar, but with the recent introduction of a [...]

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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 December 16th, 2009

IBM left a voicemail at 4:58am today about a 6am briefing to announce the acquisition of Lombardi.  Thanks for the heads up, guys!  Sandy Kemsley does her usual great job with the briefing play-by-play, which I would describe as predictably unrevealing, except for the fact that Lombardi will be brought into WebSphere/AIM instead of being [...]

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bruce on May 6th, 2009

[My May column on BPMInstitute.org] “Cool” is not a word I would normally apply to IBM’s BPM software, but for the new BPM BlueWorks offering announced at Impact this week, the term is appropriate.  IBM bills BPM BlueWorks as a BPM community in the cloud, and it is that, plus a lot more.  Actually, I [...]

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bruce on January 22nd, 2009

In IBM’s BPM Suite, the default or foundational offering on the WebSphere side is something called WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition.  Here the term ‘dynamic process’ isn’t just the usual marketing doublespeak, but a fundamentally different way of modeling and executing processes, particularly customer-facing ones.  It refers to the myriad of process variations that result from differences [...]

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bruce on May 16th, 2008

Lombardi’s Jim Rudden posts an admittedly “cranky” piece about software giants like SAP crashing the BPMS party.  His beef with those companies, which he calls Stackers, is that they pursue the promise of BPM half-heartedly. Actually, they have done everything in their power to bury BPM deep in what they view as their real market… [...]

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bruce on May 6th, 2008

Since my recent post, a bit more has dribbled out into the blogosphere about the negotiations over BPMN 2.0, most of it completely off track.  But now SAP’s David Frankel, definitely an insider, is shining a welcome light in those dark spaces with his BPMN 2.0 Update.  The biggest difference between the two submissions is in how [...]

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bruce on April 28th, 2008

At Impact three weeks ago I just got the drive-by version, but now that I’ve gotten the full analyst deep dive, I have to say that IBM now really does seem to have its act together on BPM.   The current v6.1 offering has a lot of the improvement built in already, and the July v6.1.2 [...]

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