After I posted re the piling-on Assaf Arkin was taking on IT|Redux over insisting that BPMN belonged to BPEL, the man himself posted a thoughtful response on BPMS Watch. I was waist-deep in real work at the time and didn’t have time to think through an appropriate continuation of the thread, so I dashed off [...]
Despite the inclusion of content management functionality in Gartner’s checklist of BPMS must-include components, most BPMS vendors cannot even spell ECM. The few that can — EMC Documentum, FileNet, Global 360, Pega, IBM — generally had an ECM business long before they got into BPM. I’ve been thinking about it more lately as I finish [...]
When you’re deep in a hole of your own creation, the usual advice is to stop digging. But Assaf Arkin is not a slave to such conventional wisdom. He took a sound hammering on the comment thread to his original IT|Redux post where he states that BPMN should just be the diagram for BPEL 2.0, but [...]
If you’re new to BPM and want to better understand the technology, I’m doing an all-day tutorial session in DC (Reston VA, actually) on September 20, in parallel with the Brainstorm BPM/SOA Conference. The training is sponsored by BPM Institute and counts toward their BPM certification credential. Click here for more information.
Assaf Arkin guest-posts an impassioned love-hate note to BPMN on IT|Redux. I admit I only understood about half of it, and I think you’d need to have stayed awake through many a BPEL TC conference call to get most of the references. His first core assumption – that BPMN’s deeper purpose is to provide process [...]
Paul Harmon of BPTrends weighs in on a worthy topic, how many perspectives do we need to describe a business process? He acknowledges that while “alternative approaches” like Role Activity Diagrams or the Flores-Winograd interaction model used by Action Technologies are useful in special cases, most of the time it would be better to standardize [...]
InfoWorld just came out with a head-to-head eval of the two leading BRMS offerings, ILOG JRules and FairIsaac Blaze Advisor. To sum it up, Blaze slightly outpointed ILOG overall, with better benchmark performance and documentation, while ILOG rated higher in rule management and developer tools. The new version of Blaze is speedier than the old largely [...]
[Here is my latest BPMS Watch column going up today on BPM Institute]
One of the core promises of BPMS is that it lets process owners on the business side model, monitor, and maintain their own process implementations. While chronically backlogged IT is hypersensitive to the charge that they take too long to respond to the [...]
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If, like me, you’re still trying to work out how ESB fits in BPMS (or not), or even what the heck it is, you can look at the new Forrester Wave, courtesy of Cape Clear, the nominal winner.
Here is the chart posted on their site, and you can download the whole report by registering with [...]
A frenzy of recent blogger activity around the question of whether the business people who do “modeling” can really build executable processes, by analogy with the spreadsheet. Keith Swenson says absolutely, David Ogren and Jesper Joergensen of BEA echo right on, and Phil Ayres is a lonely voice of dissent. I come down squarely on the [...]
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