The coolest thing I saw at Process World was definitely ARIS Process Performance Manager (PPM), specifically its ability to autogenerate the as-is model from instrumenting the backend systems that perform its activities. IDS CTO Wolfram Jost mentioned this in his keynote, and there were a number of comments about it in my Almost Live... post on Thursday. If you missed the thread, Marlon Dumas …
A recent client, Santa Clara County, asks that I post on the issuance of their RFP for a BPMS to handle the assessor department processes. A bit unusual, but why not. It's a nice project, a variety of human-centric processes with a bit of custom integration (Vignette, TurboImage database). Interested vendors should look for RFP#605 from www.rfpdepot.com.
I recently received an email from Danny Greefhorst of the Netherlands, who says in relation to my 2006 BPMS Report series: "your definition of case management seems to be very document-centric and to be quite different from interpretations I have seen in other places." He attaches a couple articles, also of Dutch origin. The note was timely, as I'm in the process of putting together my 2007 …
SOA analyst Beth Gold-Bernstein of ebizQ posts about her quest for a BPMN tool to support her effort, together with Brenda Michelson. to create a "service design method." Our goal is to take a pragmatic business driven approach to incremental (ie ? project driven) SOA design and implementation. We plan to use standard modeling techniques and tools where ever feasible. The status of this project is …
Sandy calls attention to an excellent review of BPEL's history and current status from Oracle's Dave Shaffer and Manoj Das in (ironically) WebSphere Journal. Probably the best summary of the differences between the new BPEL 2.0 and the little-lamented BPEL 1.1 standard that I've seen yet in print. She also notes the seeming fakeness of BPEL4People, a joint SAP-IBM white paper that appeared 18 …
Forrester tries to shove BPMS offerings into pigeonholes: human-centric, integration-centric, document-centric, Microsoft-centric.... Yikes. That's bogus. Most BPMS vendors are trying to make their tools applicable across a broad spectrum of process types. But it's true that today each BPMS offering is probably stronger in some process types than in others. In my 2007 BPMS Report series, now …
BPMS Watch invites you to join me at BPMInstitute.org's Business Process Management Conference, April 10-11 at The Drake Hotel in Chicago. As part of my participation in the event, I have secured a limited number of Complimentary 1-Day Conference Passes (a $995 value) for BPMS Watch readers. (Note: this is for the conference events, not the BPMN training, and there is some fine print to note at …
Just received a note from Phil Gilbert of Lombardi, a key contributor to the BPDM effort in OMG, that says: [I] wanted to let you know that the OMG Architecture Board voted to approve the BPDM spec today. There are actually 2 more small hurdles instead of 1 more as I told you earlier. But these are 99.9% certain to approve specs that have passed the Architecture Board review. Apparently these take …
BPMN is the de facto standard for process modeling, but many leading modeling tools, particularly those incorporated within high-end business process analysis (BPA) suites, have so far been reluctant to adopt it. Now that appears to be changing. Recently IDS Scheer announced that ARIS, generally considered the leading standalone BPA suite, would be supporting the full BPMN notation in the v7.0.2 …
BPMS Watch is now one year old. While my posting schedule remains erratic, readership keeps growing (see Feedburner chart below). Feed readership is up 200% in 6 months and direct pageviews are up 40%, now 35K per month, plus syndication on several other sites. The Technorati ranking peaked several months ago around 60,000, and has since dropped to around 94,000. Since that's based on trackbacks …