If BPM is going to be widely accepted as an instrument of business-IT alignment, it has some work to do. IBM developerWorks has an interesting monthly series in the context of SOA. In Part 2: How do I translate business needs into IT requirements?, IBM’s panel of “visionaries” mainly seems to agree that the right starting [...]
[reprinted from BPMS Watch on bpminstitute.org]
Two or three years ago, when I began speaking at BrainStorm BPM conferences, I coined the term “BPM 2.0″ to refer to new tools that allowed “process without programming.” That technology, featuring integration adapters that could introspect enterprise information systems and turn them magically into “services” ready for orchestration in [...]
Doug Henschen, my editor at Intelligent Enterprise, already has posted an interview with Gartner’s BPM guru Jim Sinur, live from their shindig in Opryland. Jim makes some interesting points about the market, but the BPM bloggers on site (e.g. Kemsley, Taylor) seem to be most taken by Gartner’s new BPM “maturity model.” I’m sure it makes [...]
[Originally posted on IT|Redux]
Edwin Khodabakchian, the brains behind Oracle BPEL Process Manager, posts on a set of possible “BPEL enhancements” suggested to him by Oracle’s application groups — eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel… They include:
1. Business Process Outline — “Enable business analysts to build the skeleton of a business process, skeleton which can be then implemented [...]
[Originally posted on IT|Redux]
In his new blog on ebizq, David Ogren of Fuego offers a spirited rebuttal to my charge (and that of others, like Sandy Kemsley) that, whatever its merits in filling out the BPMS magic quadrant checklist, acquiring Fuego was a strange way for BEA — one of BPEL’s initial sponsors — to [...]
[Originally posted on IT|Redux]
BEA’s acquisition of Fuego this week is a welcome validation of the BPMS market, but what a surprising way to go about it! Probably the strangest BPM acquisition since TIBCO spent big bucks on a workflow engine that couldn’t even receive a JMS message.
FuegoBPM appears to have already morphed lock, stock, and [...]
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