bruce on May 30th, 2008

On June 4 at 1pm ET/10am PT, I will be doing a free webcast on BPMInstitute.org entitled “Which BPMS Is Right For You?”, calling attention to my BPMS Report series available through the BPM Institute site, as well as the recent Ratings Report, available also here on BPMS Watch.  The BPMS Reports cover 11 leading offerings [...]

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bruce on May 30th, 2008

You’re probably saying, what the heck is OCEB?  It stands for OMG Certified Expert in BPM, a series of credentials issued by OMG to demonstrate levels of BPM competence based on exams.  There are 5 levels – a fundamental level, business intermediate and advanced, and technical intermediate and advanced.  It’s not just about BPMN, but [...]

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bruce on May 27th, 2008

When I began my BPMS Report series a few years back — actually the predecessor reports, called the Manager’s Guide to BPM Software — my thought was that all that BPMS buyers needed to make a rational choice was a walkthrough of process design using the tools, presented in a standard format and terminology.  Those [...]

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bruce on May 16th, 2008

Lombardi’s Jim Rudden posts an admittedly “cranky” piece about software giants like SAP crashing the BPMS party.  His beef with those companies, which he calls Stackers, is that they

pursue the promise of BPM half-heartedly. Actually, they have done everything in their power to bury BPM deep in what they view as their real market…

which in [...]

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bruce on May 15th, 2008

I will be speaking at BPMInstitute.org’s Business Process Management Conference as well as providing Training at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA over June 24-27.  I will be presenting at the conference a keynote titled BPMN and Business-Empowered Implementation, as well as instructing my 2-Day Training Course Process Modeling with BPMN .
I recommend you consider attending both [...]

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bruce on May 13th, 2008

I released the BPMS Watch Ratings report last month, available to subscribers on this site and on BPMInstitute.org.  Each of the 11 BPM Suites evaluated was scored on the same set of capability categories, based on a weighted list of features/attributes, including “Strength of Execution,” representing a subjective catch-all attribute.  Three process types described in the [...]

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bruce on May 6th, 2008

Since my recent post, a bit more has dribbled out into the blogosphere about the negotiations over BPMN 2.0, most of it completely off track.  But now SAP’s David Frankel, definitely an insider, is shining a welcome light in those dark spaces with his BPMN 2.0 Update. 
The biggest difference between the two submissions is in how they [...]

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bruce on May 6th, 2008

If you want to jump-start your BPMN efforts, I’ll be offering a half-day pre-conference workshop on Process Modeling with BPMN at the upcoming Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit in Orlando.  This Gartner event is the leading independent SOA and application infrastructure conference, and the agenda’s 6 tracks and 70+ sessions cover future trends [...]

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bruce on May 1st, 2008

Surprisingly little information has reached public view concerning BPMN 2.0, now under consideration in OMG.  Unlike most standards approval processes, the outcome of this one is not preordained.  There are two submissions, quite different, and it could go either way.
Oracle’s Vishal Saxena notes that one reason BPMN 1.x has been so successful is that it “keeps [...]

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