I should have known that disputing Michael Rowley’s contention that mapping BPMN to BPEL was “simpler” than a straight BPMN 2.0 solution would invite a further response. Two, actually, one from Michael and another from Frank Leymann. Hmmm. In a room with those two, I’m at best the third smartest guy. But unlike the “stacker-bashing” [...]
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Active Endpoints’ Alex Neihaus points me to a post by his CTO Michael Rowley entitled “Which is simpler: BPMN or BPEL?” I’m groaning before I even read it, because I know where Michael is headed. Right off a cliff, in my view.
Their product ActiveVOS is one of the first to support BPMN 2.0 diagrams, but [...]
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[My August column on BPMInstitute.org]
BPMS Watch readers know I am a big fan of OMG’s Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0, which has passed its first approval hurdle and is now in the Finalization Task Force stage. A major reason is that for the first time, BPMN has standardized the schema for XML interchange of [...]
I wrote previously about Lombardi’s efforts to open up Blueprint using XPDL 2.1. A BPMN diagram created in Blueprint can be exported as XPDL and imported into itp commerce Process Modeler for Visio, the tool I use in my BPMessentials training. This is great! Even though it is a standard, BPMN is rarely portable between [...]
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Well, sort of… By that I mean you can export a BPMN diagram from your Blueprint account to your desktop and import it into another BPMN tool, like Process Modeler for Visio, the tool I use in my BPMessentials training, or BizAGI (see screenshot).
After months of my nagging Lombardi about the need for this, it popped [...]
I have taken Phil Gilbert’s suggestion to heart and stood up a new website BPMN Case Management where we can explore the possibilities for a case management modeling notation closely tied to BPMN… without re-fighting the whole BPMN war from the very beginning, as OMG seems inclined to do. Once the DNS sets up, it [...]
[My July column for BPMInstitute.org]
In these tough times, even the most change-resistant organizations are re-examining whether past practice should continue to govern standard operating procedures. Government and airlines, for example, spring to mind. Last week, I saw further evidence of this in delivering a BPMN training class to one of the many Federal agencies involved [...]
[My June column for BPMInstitute.org]
As BPM begins to expand beyond isolated projects to mainstream programs at the division or enterprise level, there is a need to engage a far greater number of business people in the effort. That’s not easy, and achieving it is going to require significant change in the way BPM is practiced.
The [...]
Lest there be any doubt that OMG is not a market-driven organization, they could not even generate a press release to proclaim BPMN 2.0’s first big step into the world of official standards. So I asked Dave Ings, IBM’s BPMN 2.0 pooh-bah, what actually transpired last month in Costa Rica. Here is what he said (as amended [...]
It came together faster than I thought! BPMN Method and Style is now available on Amazon.com. I had hoped to send out an email blast last night to announce it to all BPMS Watch subscribers from the Mailpress plugin, but I’ve been learning (the hard way) about gmail’s smtp limit… Apologies to those first 100 or [...]
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