Jan
21

NetWeaver BPM and SAP’s BPM Strategy

bruce on January 21st, 2009

SAP is probably the world’s leading supplier of process automation software.  Over half of the world’s business transactions, involving 12 Million users in 120 countries, touch one of 140,000 SAP systems.  But the company is only now entering the “BPM market” with the launch of NetWeaver BPM, part of the NetWeaver middleware platform.
You would not expect [...]

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May
16

Bashing the Stackers

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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May
6

An Insider’s View of BPMN 2.0

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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