One of BPMN’s most important elements is unfortunately also the most misunderstood. It’s called a pool, a rectangular shape that serves as a container for a process. So in that sense a pool is synonymous with a process, and that’s as basic as you can get. The confusion sets in when you understand that a [...]
CMP’s TechWeb syndicates my blog, and someone posted a question re my recent post about The Future of BPM at BEA/Oracle. When I tried to reply, the CMP site rejected it for sexual innuendo or something. You be the judge.
The comment:
I did not see any speific remarks about Aqualogic in your article and pose this [...]
I see my friend Jesper is moving on from BEA, so the reality of the Oracle acquisition is finally sinking in. When I hear people say that Oracle bought BEA for their BPM, I have to laugh. I’m fairly confident the Oracle crew that went after BEA could not even spell BPM. But no doubt [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Passes Available to June BPM Conference
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 [...]
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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