Even though the meat-and-potatoes of BPM 2.0 — business-oriented, top-down model-driven process implementation (without code), based on some form of SOA — hasn’t yet been finished, BPMS vendors want to skip ahead to dessert, with system-generated recommendations on how to optimize the process design. Lombardi was the first out with this, but now both BEA and Savvion are [...]
Normally when the Ayn Rand references start flying, I head for cover. But since Phil Gilbert’s rant on the futility of foisting an SOA primer on naive business managers tracked back to my post on what BPM on SOA would look like, I guess I’m obligated to say something. Phil’s nominal beef is with the [...]
While all BPMS vendors today mumble something about SOA, BEA Systems is one of very few that are making sense. They acknowledge that you can do BPM either with or without SOA, and that doing it without SOA is quicker and easier, but go on to say that as BPM deployments proliferate in the enterprise, [...]
BPMS vendors love to throw a bone to SOA, and if you weren’t paying attention you might even think that BPM on SOA was real. I’ve written at length about how BPM and SOA aren’t enemies but natural allies, but they are allies with distinctly different goals and aspirations and mental models of the world. [...]
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Ismael posts an interesting reader request on IT|Redux addressed, it seems, to both of us:
Ismael, Bruce:
Do you think maybe it’s time for experts such as yourselves to get together and establish a standard model for BPM 2.0 in simple, concise and hopefuly universally applicable terms that can be ported throughout various functions and industries?
My work [...]
Unlike Sandy, I’m not “totally speechless,” but on balance pretty surprised by today’s announcement that IBM is buying FileNet for $1.6 Billion in cash. It’s really about enterprise content management, but there are BPM implications. The ECM vendor landscape has been consolidating for several years now. There used to be 3 top-tier vendors — IBM, [...]
I’ve just finished up 4 new reports in my 2006 BPMS Report series: Lombardi TeamWorks, BEA AquaLogic BPM, EMC Documentum Process Suite, and Cordys Composite Application Framework. They should be going up on the BPM Institute website next week when the webmaster returns from vacation.
The BEA report replaces Fuego; the others are new, bringing the [...]
Oracle’s Devesh Sharma has corrected my speculation yesterday that the ARIS deal is mostly focused on the dogfight between Oracle Fusion Apps and SAP/NetWeaver. That’s one motivation, for sure, but Oracle plans to impact the mainstream BPMS market with the integration of ARIS and Fusion middleware (including BPEL Process Manager and Designer) in an offering [...]
You gotta love the press release: “Oracle’s BPM product portfolio, which now includes IDS Scheer’s ARIS Platform, will support…” Before today’s announcement that it was OEMing parts of ARIS, Oracle to my knowledge did not offer a BPM product portfolio. Sure, they had an SOA Suite that included BPEL Process Manager and BPEL Designer – [...]
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