I’m in the process of updating my 2006 BPMS Report series on BPMInstitute.org to the new and improved 2007 version. A major change from last year is a beefed-up evaluation scoring. I’ve discovered that many users (and most vendors) are happy to skip the 25-page walkthrough of the product and go straight to the scorecard [...]
BPMS Watch is now one year old. While my posting schedule remains erratic, readership keeps growing (see Feedburner chart below). Feed readership is up 200% in 6 months and direct pageviews are up 40%, now 35K per month, plus syndication on several other sites. The Technorati ranking peaked several months ago around 60,000, and has since dropped to around [...]
Just received a note from Phil Gilbert of Lombardi, a key contributor to the BPDM effort in OMG, that says:
[I] wanted to let you know that the OMG Architecture Board voted to approve the BPDM spec today. There are actually 2 more small hurdles instead of 1 more as I told you earlier. But these are [...]
My comment on Keith Swenson’s XPDL-BPEL apples-and-oranges post and the failure of XPDL to fill the vacuum left by OMG in the BPMN specification stirred up an interesting response from Keith that reinvigorates the discussion and helps clear the air. But he still frames the discussion in terms of portability of executable designs rather than portability of models [...]
Continue reading about Diagrams, Models, and Metamodels…Oh My!
Keith Swenson is one of the true superheroes of BPM, and a pioneer in the development of interoperability standards. Known for his stalwart defense of XPDL, he periodically feels called upon to insist that XPDL does not compete with BPEL… then usually adding that XPDL is actually better. But I’ve always felt that Keith obscures [...]
Continue reading about The Real Issues with XPDL, BPEL, and BPMN
BPMS Watch invites you to join me at BPMInstitute.org’s Business Process Management Conference, April 10-11 at The Drake Hotel in Chicago.
As part of my participation in the event, I have secured a limited number of Complimentary 1-Day Conference Passes (a $995 value) for BPMS Watch readers. (Note: this is for the conference events, not the [...]
Sandy calls attention to an excellent review of BPEL’s history and current status from Oracle’s Dave Shaffer and Manoj Das in (ironically) WebSphere Journal. Probably the best summary of the differences between the new BPEL 2.0 and the little-lamented BPEL 1.1 standard that I’ve seen yet in print. She also notes the seeming fakeness of [...]
[This is a re-post of something I wrote yesterday on the SAP Business Process Expert megablog, in case you don't follow that site.]
At the recent Gartner BPM Summit, I was shocked to see how high a pedestal the Gartner analysts now place simulation analysis in their gallery of must-have BPM capabilities. Ever obedient, the BPMS [...]
Bruce Mayfield posts a comment on an old thread exploring different ways to model business exceptions in BPMN. Since that original post I’ve worked out some best practices for different types of exceptions (business exceptions vs system faults, exception detected interanlly to the process vs signaled by external event, etc). As a reminder that our BPMN training [...]
After 3 days of “what is it?” and “where it’s going” and “how great it’s gonna be,” attendees at the Gartner BPM Summit this week finally got to hear “how to do it” on the afternoon of the last day. Normally only a few diehards stick around to the bitter end, and I guess you can’t [...]
Continue reading about BPMN Training at Gartner – After the Fact
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