I’m off now to do a keynote for Unisys on “The Future of Content and Process Management” at their conference center at St-Paul-de-Vence, outside of Nice. They run their own 5-star hotel in the grand French style for their best customers. I’ve been there before, and this is really the best gig going for an [...]
One cool thing I saw at Brainstorm BPM was a demo by Cordys of their BPMN-based process designer. I hadn’t heard of Cordys, which is based in Amsterdam , but they sent me the latest Gartner MQ of the “ISE” market (Gartner’s term for SOA management/orchestration platforms — why do they do this?) where Cordys came [...]
I’m back from the Brainstorm BPM and SOA Conference in Chicago this week, where I spoke on Selecting a BPMS to the BPM crowd and tried to explain BPEL to the SOA crowd. In an event like that my presentations stick out like a sore thumb, as the typical conference attendee is really trying to [...]
I am expanding my 2006 BPMS Report series, which is available for free from BPM Institute. Over 1500 copies have been downloaded to date. Each report contains a 20-25 page walkthrough of a leading BPMS, all using the same analytical framework and report outline, and products are rated as to their strengths in several distinct process [...]
Sandy Kemsley wrote a note recently commending the upcoming BPM Think Tank in DC May 23-25, and I want to second that emotion. It’s put on by OMG, who absorbed BPMI.org in 2005. If last year’s version is any indication, this is the one event where those who really “get” BPM can mingle and argue [...]
James Taylor’s blog on ebizq points to another piece on that site which asserts not only, as James paraphrases, that BPM and SOA are no “silver bullet” for the business-IT alignment problem, but that they are at their core no different from all previous attempts to bridge the business-IT gap. Zygmunt Jackowski, PhD, who describes [...]
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I received an interesting email yesterday re my BPM 2.0 manifesto from a professed “process analyst” I know:
Another good one, Bruce… I’d quibble only about the role defs for “business analyst” (a common misnomer in vogue in IT today that should be titled “requirements analyst” since they don’t really analyze the business or assist the business [...]
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Last week Lombardi Software announced that Cognos, a leader in business intelligence software, had OEM’ed Lombardi TeamWorks for use in a new line of “analytic applications.” This action adds a new twist to the already-blurring boundaries between BPM and performance management/analytics that has been going on for a year or two.
Performance management is one of [...]
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The current issue of Business Integration Journal has an interesting piece from Oracle about my favorite topic, how to keep process models (e.g. BPMN) and their BPMS implementations (e.g. BPEL) in sync, what we call the round-tripping problem. I’ve repeatedly expressed my view that if BPM 2.0 is going to deliver real benefit over what we [...]
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SearchOracle.com discusses a recent Forrester report that claims SAP NetWeaver is winning the middleware battle against Oracle Fusion. The logic isn’t fully revealed in the story, but the key seems to be more about the strength of those companies’ enterprise applications and solution partners than the technical merits of the middleware itself. Forrester’s Ray Wang, [...]
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