bruce on February 27th, 2007

I’m not going to try to compete with Sandy’s wall-to-wall coverage of this event.  Mine will be more impressionistic.
Simon Hayward keynote.  Gartner likes to sell futures on technology. It’s what they do.  Simon has a chart of the value realization from BPM over time, with 3 curves.  Today the “productivity” curve is highest.  In 2012 [...]

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bruce on February 23rd, 2007

If you’ve been waiting for my course Process Modeling with BPMN to be available, it’s finally ready to go.  Go to www.bpmessentials.com to sign up and get started.  The Flash videos and PDF student notes are available.  We’re still planning our first classroom training event.  Contact me if you are interested in that.  Thanks to [...]

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bruce on February 23rd, 2007

Oldish threads sometimes take on a life of their own, and recent comments on a January post What is Case Management? have done just that.  If you are interested in this important but mostly ignored corner of the BPM space, check it out.  In addition to the G360 Case Manager product, it seems there is [...]

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bruce on February 22nd, 2007

It’s nuts to cram a 2-day course on BPMN into an hour and a half, but I guess I’m doing it anyway.  If you’re in San Diego at the Gartner BPM conference next week and staying around to the bitter end, check it out.  I’m on Wednesday afternoon at 1:45.  If you’re interested in talking [...]

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bruce on February 20th, 2007

Next week at Gartner BPM, Appian will take the wraps off Appian Anywhere, a hosted subscription-based version of Appian Enterprise.  Appian Anywhere includes the full BPM suite, and leverages Appian’s ability to host the entire environment - design tools, engine, object persistence, rule engine, portal, etc. - on the web.  Initially the systems will reside [...]

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bruce on February 18th, 2007

[Submitted via email re my What is Case Management? column on bpminstitute.org.  Posted with Ken's permission.]
I enjoyed your article on BPM and CASE management. It is a sticky subject. The BPM folks don’t understand CASE management very well, and unfortunately, the CASE management folks don’t understand BPM any better. At the heart of the problem [...]

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bruce on February 15th, 2007

Gian Trotta has a piece on my new BPMN training on his First Look page that’s a part of ebizQ’s BPM in Action special.  It includes a podcast about this course, and BPM training in general, as well as a link to my new training website BPMessentials.com.  Of course you’ll check it out!

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bruce on February 12th, 2007

While I’ve been shouting from the rooftops that process modeling (in BPMN, ARIS, or whatever) is not that hard, Lombardi Software has been hearing from its customers that it’s not that easy, either.  The tools are complex, expensive, and only a small fraction of their features are used.  Collaborating on models - while they’re being [...]

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bruce on February 10th, 2007

The coolest thing I saw at Process World was definitely ARIS Process Performance Manager (PPM), specifically its ability to autogenerate the as-is model from instrumenting the backend systems that perform its activities.  IDS CTO Wolfram Jost mentioned this in his keynote, and there were a number of comments about it in my Almost Live… post [...]

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bruce on February 10th, 2007

Air travel is God’s punishment for living in California.  At 5:30 on Friday evening, when most attendees are safely home with loved ones, my journey home is just beginning, many miles before I sleep.  Day 3 of Process World (”User Day”) was the best for me, since I came to find out what ARIS actually [...]

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