The Forrester Wave for Business Process Modeling tools has been released, and you can see it here courtesy of ProForma. The ‘clear leader’ is still IDS Scheer ARIS, but ProForma and MEGA have narrowed the gap. ProForma actually leads on the ’strength of offering’ axis, while ARIS leads on the ’strategy’ axis. Making the list as strong [...]
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For those of you who follow enterprise content management, the latest Gartner magic quadrant has been made available by one of the “winners,” EMC. The link, via the EMC site, is here. EMC just noses out IBM, whose entry includes both the DB2 Content Manager family and FileNet. Rounding out the Leader quadrant are OpenText [...]
This Thursday October 26 I am doing a webcast on BPM for IBM as part of their 2-day ”virtual jam” on BPM and SOA. Interactive Q&A follows, and a chance to find out more about how IBM is putting the puzzle pieces together. Click here to register.
Yeesterday IBM briefed analysts on their latest round of BPM and related “business services” announcements, all part of their broad push on SOA. They start with a message we can all nod our heads about: Services are the building blocks for business processes. But connecting the dots is not that simple.
This week OMG is putting on a 4-day workshop in San Francisco on Building a Service Oriented Architecture with BPM and MDA. Judging from the two sessions I attended, it’s really a good program, kind of an IT perspective on BPM. Yesterday I got the chance to meet Stephen White, one of the principal authors [...]
Re yesterday’s post, Yi Gao of eClarus wanted to get this image in his response, so I’m posting the following note on his behalf.
From Yi Gao, Oct 13, 2006:
In eClarus Business Process Modeler 1.0 that was released in June, we could translate the BPMN models with synchronization links. We had some samples that show the [...]
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eClarus today declared they’ve cracked a tough nut in the BPMN-BPEL roundtripping problem.
If you follow that topic, you probably know that Yi Gao of Seattle startup eClarus and Marlon Dumas of Queensland University of Technology are basically the two guys in the world who know what they’re talking about. Way back in February, when I [...]
[This is next week's BPMS Watch column on BPMInstitute.org]
A central promise of BPMS is that process improvement can be projected and optimized in advance of implementation, using process modeling’s simulation capability. By including simulation analysis, process modeling tools can not only define the structure of the proposed to-be process but project its expected ROI. For [...]
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