bruce on September 14th, 2011

At this week’s SAP Tech Ed conference in Las Vegas, BPM is definitely off the main track.  The only other BPM analyst here that I recognized is Jim Sinur of Gartner.  The keynote sessions were all about HANA, SAP’s new in-memory analytics platform that is the key to reinvigorating the entire SAP portfolio (at least [...]

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bruce on March 17th, 2011

Yesterday I got a look at SAP’s BPM v7.3, now in “ramp-up” (extended beta).  I hadn’t heard much lately about SAP in the BPM area, so I was really surprised to see how far they have come.  The new offering, called the “Process Orchestration Solution”, combines NetWeaver BPM, focused on human tasks, and NetWeaver Process [...]

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bruce on January 21st, 2009

SAP is probably the world’s leading supplier of process automation software.  Over half of the world?s business transactions, involving 12 Million users in 120 countries, touch one of 140,000 SAP systems.  But the company is only now entering the “BPM market” with the launch of NetWeaver BPM, part of the NetWeaver middleware platform. You would not [...]

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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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