bruce on April 5th, 2011

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 [...]

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bruce on August 23rd, 2010

I mentioned in a previous post I had created a tool that converts BPMN diagrams from Visio Premium 2010 to BPMN 2.0-compliant XML.  It was an interesting project because Visio itself does not internally “understand” the structure of a BPMN model.  Sure, it can test many of the rules in the BPMN spec, but that [...]

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Because BPMN 2.0 is a standard and defines an XML serialization, you can create a model in tool A and import it into tool B.  Right?  Umm, actually no.  Well, isn’t that what a standard is supposed to do?  Yes.  And isn’t that what OMG has been claiming for years that BPMN 2.0 will do?  [...]

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