[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 [...]
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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I will be chairing an all new BPMS Track at BPMInstitute.org’s upcoming BPM Conference in New York City at The Roosevelt Hotel (November 5-6). This track analyzes the latest generation of BPM Suites, and features an extended panel on November 5 in which leading vendors show how their offerings address key topics such as business-IT alignment, [...]
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I’m at the annual OMG BPM Think Tank event in Chicago and, to be perfectly honest, it isn’t working any more. This used to be my favorite BPM event, an industry insider deal, just vendors and consultants – no users – talking about standards and how to move BPM forward as an “industry.” You had [...]
They would say they never left it, but from a marketing perspective Savvion is suddenly re-emerging from a quiet period with the introduction of version 7.5 and related vertical application initiatives. Since the beginning of the year they have been able to right the ship financially – reporting 6% net profit for the fiscal year, and 16% [...]
At Oracle Open World yesterday, industry analysts got a good look at Oracle’s BPM strategy and roadmap in the wake of the BEA acquisition. Overall, my conclusion is Oracle is showing the rest of the world the right way to do software acquisitions. BPM is progressing along the path of “interoperate, integrate, unify” that Oracle claims it [...]
Are you as sick as I am of so-called “architects” swiftboating BPM with phony strawman arguments? Here’s the latest, from blogger Nick Malik:
I like point out really nutty ideas, even when a lot of people have spent a lot of time investing in them…. [BPM] created pretty languages for describing business processes, and we started [...]
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Today Oracle lifted the veil on its plans for BEA. Naturally, Oracle said the acquisition as a whole was not just for market share, but for BEA’s technology, which would all become part of the Fusion middleware platform. There was a lot of material presented, but I’ll focus on the product convergence plan as it [...]
Having long held the inside track, the BPDM camp has felt little need to advocate publicly for its vision for BPMN 2.0. However, with united opposition from IBM, SAP, and Oracle, EDS’s Fred Cummins, co-chair of the BMI task force in OMG (responsible for BPMN and other BPM standards), has begun something of a public defense. His first [...]
Did you know Adobe had a BPMS? Most people don’t, even though with over 5000 customers they could be considered a major player. One reason people don’t know about Adobe and BPM is that the company doesn’t talk about it in the usual way. In fact, it treats the normal catalog of BPMS features and [...]
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