Yesterday Ismael posted something about a new team collaboration offering from Webex called Webex Connect, that appeared to have some connection to Cordys BPM, one of the offerings described in my 2006 BPMS Report series. I couldn't tell exactly what it did, but Ismael seemed unusually excited about it, so I called my friends from Cordys to get more details.
This morning I trekked over the hill to Redwood Shores to find out what Oracle is up to in BPM. I came away impressed.
I've discovered (the hard way) something that experienced bloggers learned long ago. Blogs attract "real" (i.e. paying) work, and when the blog starts to take off, you suddenly don't have time to do it any more. But you just have to make time. So I will, and I'm back.
Yeesterday IBM briefed analysts on their latest round of BPM and related "business services" announcements, all part of their broad push on SOA. They start with a message we can all nod our heads about: Services are the building blocks for business processes. But connecting the dots is not that simple.
Intalio, which calls itself the Open Source BPMS Company, yesterday announced the donation of a BPMN modeling tool to the open source community, and tomorrow plans to add a "BPEL4People-based" workflow framework. The BPMN modeler, donated to the Eclipse Foundation, is now available under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) and is part of the SOA Tools Platform (STP) project. This follows Intalio's …
Last week an item came up on ComputerWire called "Lombardi Gears Up for IPO." Wow, did I like doze off and somehow wake up back in 1998? OK, revenue is up 200% over 2005, but Dataquest reports 2005 software revenue at $18 Million, so since when do $50 Million software companies do IPOs? Maybe that Bubble 2.0 thing is real. I think IPO is an unlikely exit for Lombardi's investors - as well as for …
A couple months ago I posted about the deficient simulation capabilities of most process modeling tools. More recently I've been working with ITP Commerce - the tool provider for my upcoming BPMN training - on enhancing their simulation features to address the use cases that figure most prominently in process analysis. It's been a really instructive exercise, and I'm still struggling through it. …
Next week at Gartner BPM, Appian will take the wraps off Appian Anywhere, a hosted subscription-based version of Appian Enterprise. Appian Anywhere includes the full BPM suite, and leverages Appian's ability to host the entire environment - design tools, engine, object persistence, rule engine, portal, etc. - on the web. Initially the systems will reside on Amazon's hosting services. Pricing …
It seems the smartest guys in the room, BPM-wise, have suddenly discovered content management. Or, more accurately, have begun to imagine what an intersection between the two might possibly look like... as if that were almost possible. Ismael tosses out three candidates: 1. Manage the lifecycle of content objects in CM, and just store the links to them in the process instance. (Memo to FileNet. …
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 …