bruce on August 1st, 2007

BPMS vendor Metastorm acquired BPA vendor Proforma today, kind of a surprise to me, since the last thing most business analysts want is to have their modeling tool funnel them into some proprietary runtime.  Sandy as usual has it covered.  I bring it up only because a graduate of my BPMN training pinged me about [...]

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bruce on August 1st, 2007

If there is one standard that the BPM world can unite around, it’s BPMN.  Today, even those vendors initially reluctant to adopt it can no longer ignore it. But what exactly are the factors that drive this acceptance?  How satisfied are end users of BPMN with the notation? Do user experiences on BPMN match those [...]

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bruce on August 1st, 2007

Yesterday I got a briefing from the BPM folks at Oracle, as part of my BPMS Report series, and I came away surprised at both the completeness and, in many ways, coolness of the offering.  A few things stand out (for the rest you’ll have to wait for the report, later this month):
Oracle provides a [...]

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