Those of you who have followed the threads in BPMS Watch on the BPMN-BPEL round-tripping problem -- keeping the business-oriented process model in sync with the executable implementation throughout the process lifecycle -- may have noticed a comment from Henry Yu of eClarus saying, essentially, we think we've solved this, check it out. So I did. Very interesting. Not solved yet, to my way of …
Last week Lombardi Software announced that Cognos, a leader in business intelligence software, had OEM'ed Lombardi TeamWorks for use in a new line of "analytic applications." This action adds a new twist to the already-blurring boundaries between BPM and performance management/analytics that has been going on for a year or two. Performance management is one of the 3 legs of the BPMS stool (the …
I had an interesting briefing today from Zynium, provider of a tool that maps Visio process diagrams to various BPMS environments, including Fujitsu, Appian, Software AG, and DST. Many BPMS and modeling tool vendors have developed their own Visio import capability, with varying degrees of success, and several of them are talking to Zynium as well. Doing it well is apparently harder than it looks. …
Can anyone help me understand how (or if) ESB fits in a BPMS? In the mountains of blather you can Google on either topic I can't find anything that makes sense about how the work together! In fact, the more I try to understand ESB the confuseder I get. For clarity, let's just consider BPEL-based BPMSs like IBM, Oracle, Intalio... Is ESB an inherent/invisible capability of these offerings (I think …
It's good to see Workflow Management Coalition's Keith Swenson blogging now. Keith, whose actual livelihood is as chief architect of Fujitsu's BPMS, has done heroic service over the years in advancing BPM standards consistent with the WfMC reference model, such as XPDL, ASAP, and others. His recent post "Workflow is Back" reflects the irritation of many who are continually forced to watch BPM …
Virtually all the modeling notations and tools I know, including BPMN, as well as executable process design tools (both workflow-style and BPEL-based) follow the activity flow paradigm, i.e. like a flowchart or UML activity diagram, in which the flow is generally in one direction. Moreover, to create a valid executable process diagram, many (including the BPEL language itself) exclude arbitrarily …
My previous post just hit the low points. Sandy has a more complete writeup of the day's activities, which is mostly accurate. Kinda long, though, Sandy. Didn't have time to fin
BPM is about empowering people. It was co-opted by integration vendors, who took it down an IT-centric path. ? Connie Moore, Forrester. [Note: Forrester has separate analysts and ?waves? for human-centric and integration-centric BPM. Guess which is Connie?s?] The ultimate goal of BPM is self-aware processes that can recommend changes to process owners. ? Connie again. [Yeah, I hear businesses …
If it were anyone else but Ismael Ghalimi, I would have simply muttered "idiotic" and moved on without a second thought. But when a guy at the top of my BPM hero list declares that "nobody cares about BPM" any more, my actual reaction was dismay and mild depression. The apparent basis for Ismael's loss of faith: the fact that Google Trends shows searches on "bpm" have declined since 2004, while …
[my latest BPMS Watch column on BPMInstitute.org] The annual BPM Think Tank, now in its second iteration, is an event I?ve been looking forward to all year. Unlike most BPM conferences, which are generally aimed at helping newbies get started, Think Tank is a forum where experienced BPM vendors, analysts, academics, and user organizations come to discuss what needs to come next in terms of …