Expect Nothing to Work
One of the things I love about Ismael Ghalimi is he is an absolute nut... in a cool, brilliant way. He launched the modern BPM era about 10 years ago (BPMN was one result of that) but his company Intalio never quite reached escape velocity. Sometime last year he started a new venture STOIC, a tool that allows end users with no more than Excel-formula skills to build mobile/web apps. There is a "
Case Management White Paper Available
In the world of BPM, the hottest topic today is case management. Some call it dynamic case management or adaptive case management, and some say it’s not part of BPM at all. One thing is for sure: Conventional BPM Suites cannot do it very well. The objectives of case management are identical to those of conventional BPM: managing work more effectively and efficiently, providing end-to-end performance visibility, and increasing business agility.
IBM BPM 7.5 White Paper
IBM is the big dog in the BPMS landscape. BPM 7.5 combines the old WebSphere Lombardi Edition and WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (aka Process Server) in a single offering. More than two separate products in a single box, there is real integration under the covers, in the form of a shared Process Center repository. Find out all about it in my latest Industry Trend Report, available here. You'll need to be registered on BPMS Watch to access it.
IBM's BPMS Endgame
Clay (Coat o'Paint) Richardson and I have agreed to disagree about whether IBM Business Process Manager's having two process engines is a bad thing (sez he) or a don't-care (sez I). In the analyst session at Impact today, it wasn't really clear if the two-engine approach is the long-term answer or just all they can do for now. I don't think it matters all that much, but Clay got me thinking about where they "
SAP BPM Update
Yesterday I got a look at SAP's BPM v7.3, now in "ramp-up" (extended beta). I hadn't heard much lately about SAP in the BPM area, so I was really surprised to see how far they have come. The new offering, called the "Process Orchestration Solution", combines NetWeaver BPM, focused on human tasks, and NetWeaver Process Integration, which provides SOA, ESB, adapters, and Enterprise Service Repository (ESR). Unlike, say, Oracle, who (today) sells BPM as general-purpose middleware, SAP makes BPM an application extender.
A Thoroughly Modern AWD
One of the oldest BPMS's around is one you may not have heard of: AWD from DST Technologies. If you send in a check to fund your retirement account or pay an insurance premium, chances are good that AWD is running the process to handle that transaction and the customer service surrounding it. Up to now it's mostly been used in high-volume BPO operations, many run by DST itself for some of the largest financial services companies in the world.
BPMS Guidance for IBM Customers
Confused about Lombardi Edition vs WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition? This white paper will help you sort it out.
IBM WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition White Paper Available
This is the one based on WebSphere Process Server. Get the white paper here.
Microsoft (with help from G360) adds BPMN to Visio
It's safe to say that despite the proliferation of real BPMN tools, the majority of BPMN-like process diagrams that exist in the world have been created in Microsoft Visio. For me, Visio - by itself - was always just a "drawing" tool, not a real modeling tool. Even if you could find a BPMN stencil for Visio - there were a couple for BPMN 1.0, but it got harder to do with stencils as the standard evolved - the tool didn't understand the BPMN semantics, the parent-child diagram relationships.