This post is a transcript of my keynote at RuleML/DecisionCamp on July 8, 2016. I was surprised to be invited to speak here about DMN, because the inventors of DMN are here in the room but I am not one of them. While they were off inventing DMN, I was working in the related area of business process management, most recently focused on business process modeling using BPMN.
[Originally posted on IT|Redux] This is my latest BPMS Watch column on BPM Institute. One of the fundamental promises of BPMS was supposed to be improved business-IT alignment through model-driven implementation. We?re headed in the right direction but the tools and standards don?t completely support it yet. In preparation for the upcoming 2006 BPM Think Tank, a gathering of BPM poo-bahs …
[Originally posted on IT|Redux] BEA?s acquisition of Fuego this week is a welcome validation of the BPMS market, but what a surprising way to go about it! Probably the strangest BPM acquisition since TIBCO spent big bucks on a workflow engine that couldn?t even receive a JMS message. FuegoBPM appears to have already morphed lock, stock, and barrel into BEA?s AquaLogic BPMS. Not that FuegoBPM isn?t …
[Originally posted on IT|Redux] The world of BPMS is divided into BPEL-lovers and BPEL-haters, and the thing that BPEL-haters seem to hate most is that the OASIS standard "excludes" human tasks. How can you have a "business process" execution language that cannot accommodate human-performed activities? "Out of scope"?! Are you kidding? Of course, if you're a BPEL vendor interested in selling to …
If BPM is going to be widely accepted as an instrument of business-IT alignment, it has some work to do. IBM developerWorks has an interesting monthly series in the context of SOA. In Part 2: How do I translate business needs into IT requirements?, IBM's panel of "visionaries" mainly seems to agree that the right starting point is a tool called Rational RequisitePro, which IT uses to gather …
Doug Henschen, my editor at Intelligent Enterprise, already has posted an interview with Gartner's BPM guru Jim Sinur, live from their shindig in Opryland. Jim makes some interesting points about the market, but the BPM bloggers on site (e.g. Kemsley, Taylor) seem to be most taken by Gartner's new BPM "maturity model." I'm sure it makes a great Powerpoint slide, but not sure I'm buyin' it. It …
I got a nice note yesterday from Paul Fisher, an IT exec at the FDA, on my BPM 2.0 manifesto. He was struck, in particular, by the line that said: "[BPM's] top-down design contrasts starkly with current SOA initiatives, which are bottom-up and IT-driven, and where the services exposed for composition are determined by IT's notion of enterprise architecture, not by process-centric analysis." He …
IBM today unleashed a tidal wave of product announcements under the heading "SOA from a Business Centric Perspective." Details on individual offerings are still sketchy. This was mostly shock and awe: Surrender Earthlings, our technology is simply too vast and powerful... And it really is an impressive array of stuff. In addition to enhancements to WebSphere Business Modeler, Monitor, Process …
[Originally posted on IT|Redux] Edwin Khodabakchian, the brains behind Oracle BPEL Process Manager, posts on a set of possible ?BPEL enhancements? suggested to him by Oracle?s application groups ? eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel? They include: 1. Business Process Outline ? ?Enable business analysts to build the skeleton of a business process, skeleton which can be then implemented by an …
[reprinted from BPMS Watch on bpminstitute.org] Two or three years ago, when I began speaking at BrainStorm BPM conferences, I coined the term "BPM 2.0" to refer to new tools that allowed "process without programming." That technology, featuring integration adapters that could introspect enterprise information systems and turn them magically into ?services? ready for orchestration in a business …