bruce on January 11th, 2010

This morning Progress Software announced the acquisition of Savvion for $49 Million.  On the heels of last month’s acquisition of Lombardi by IBM, I think it’s safe to say this marks a real turning point in the market for BPMS.  To me it is a disquieting one, as it suggests the failure of BPM’s “business empowerment” [...]

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bruce on December 16th, 2009

IBM left a voicemail at 4:58am today about a 6am briefing to announce the acquisition of Lombardi.  Thanks for the heads up, guys!  Sandy Kemsley does her usual great job with the briefing play-by-play, which I would describe as predictably unrevealing, except for the fact that Lombardi will be brought into WebSphere/AIM instead of being [...]

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bruce on May 6th, 2009

[My May column on BPMInstitute.org]
“Cool” is not a word I would normally apply to IBM’s BPM software, but for the new BPM BlueWorks offering announced at Impact this week, the term is appropriate.  IBM bills BPM BlueWorks as a BPM community in the cloud, and it is that, plus a lot more.  Actually, I think [...]

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bruce on January 22nd, 2009

In IBM’s BPM Suite, the default or foundational offering on the WebSphere side is something called WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition.  Here the term ‘dynamic process’ isn’t just the usual marketing doublespeak, but a fundamentally different way of modeling and executing processes, particularly customer-facing ones.  It refers to the myriad of process variations that result from differences [...]

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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 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 April 28th, 2008

At Impact three weeks ago I just got the drive-by version, but now that I’ve gotten the full analyst deep dive, I have to say that IBM now really does seem to have its act together on BPM.   The current v6.1 offering has a lot of the improvement built in already, and the July v6.1.2 [...]

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