Process transformation – perspectives on “Business Process Management”: New BPMS feature: process mining Process mining: using existing ERP system logs to generate business process models. Roeland Loggen talks about a system from Pallas Athena doing this, and Fujitsu is also doing this. (tags: bpm bpa) WYDIWYE: The Answer to BPEL Transform Problems « Go Flow [...]
InfoQ: What can we expect from BPMN 2.0? Some comments on the alternative for serialization formats to be included in the upcoming BPMN 2.0 specification. (tags: bpmn bpel bpdm xpdl)
SAPPHIRE is only a half day today, and there’s really only one session that I wanted to attend: Cheryl Mascaro, Enterprise Architect at Intel, and Thomas Volmering, BPM product manager at SAP, talking about BPM in Action. Volmering started with the now-familiar SAP positioning of BPM that I’ve seen earlier in the week: BPM evolving [...]
Idee’s TinEye next frontier in Web searches My friends at Idee make a public launch of their innovative image search application. I’ve seen this demoed, and it’s pretty amazing stuff. (tags: search torcamp) TinEye Image Search Engine – Idée Inc. – The Visual Search Company Direct link to Idee’s image search launch (to accompany the [...]
Wolfgang Hilpert, SVP of BPM for SAP, must be tired of seeing my face by now: an accidental lunch encounter and an interview yesterday, his session at the NetWeaver theater this morning, and I ended my day with his panel on SAP and BPM that also included Benjamin Salter of Valero Energy, Janelle Hill of [...]
This afternoon, we heard from the other co-CEO of SAP, Léo Apotheker (I think that I forgot to mention Henning Kagermann’s title of co-CEO in my post this morning), starting with some fairly general comments on the nature of competitive differentiation in business, and the power of collaboration. He was joined on stage by a [...]
I took a guide dog and a GPS, and ventured out onto the show floor to visit the NetWeaver Theater to see Wolfgang Hilpert discuss SAP NetWeaver BPM (that’s the official name) in more detail. Since this is my first real exposure to the product, I’m trying to get as many views of this as [...]
I watched the general keynote this morning from the press room rather than finding my place amongst the 15,000 attendees; the first hour covered other announcements, but we did see about 10 minutes on the upcoming BPM product. Since a lot of the audience was likely unfamiliar with BPM, this was a pretty high-level architectural [...]
Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com Not really a comparison, but several good links to references on both platforms (tags: google software web2.0) Mashups: The next major new software development model? | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com Missed this one the first time around: enterprise mashups (tags: enterprise2.0 [...]
Apparently the replay information for the BPM-BRM webinar that I did on April 24th went out last week to all the registrants, but not to me; you can replay it here. I’ve uploaded the slides to SlideShare and embedded them below, but as one person told me, I tend to put up a few words [...]
I’m picking and choosing my sessions carefully, in part because I have some prearranged meetings specifically about BPM. Here with all my Enterprise Irregulars blogging compatriots (many of whom I’m meeting in person for the first time), we all were given a personalized schedule of meetings tuned to our particular area of interest — very [...]
My first time at SAPPHIRE, and I have one initial impression: this conference is huge. Most of you probably already knew that, but for me, 1,500 people at a conference is big, and this one is 10 times that size. The press room is the size of a regular conference’s general session ballroom. I just [...]
It was a busy week last week at TUCON and I completely forgot about the questions from the Business Rules Forum Q&A from the webinar that I did on the 24th. I’m not sure if the replay is available yet, I’ll post a link when I hear about it. Here’s my answers to the questions [...]
Complex Event Processing (CEP) Blog » Adaptive Process Models and CEP Paul Vincent of TIBCO writes about leveraging CEP and BPM together. (tags: cep bpm)
The last session of the day — and likely the last one of the conference for me, since I think that the engineering roundtables tomorrow morning are targeted at customers — was Enrique Goizueta of TIBCO discussing a "Lego approach" to creating business processes: dynamic BPM using the iProcess Conductor. Bruce Silver raved about the [...]
Both Patrick Stamm (CTO) and Kevin Maloney (CIO) of Golden Rule Insurance were on hand to discuss their experiences in building a BPM infrastructure. They started out looking at BPM because of the multiple redundant systems and applications that they have, which is endemic in insurance: multiple ratings engines, multiple policy systems and multiple claims [...]
I switched over to the architecture stream to see the session on trade lifecycle management using BusinessWorks and iProcess, jointly presented by Cognizant and TIBCO. Current-day trading systems are under a great deal of stress because of increased volume of trades, more complex cross-border trades, and greater compliance requirements. When trades fail, for a variety [...]
Immediately after the Spotfire-BPM session, I was up to talk about using BPM to drive top-down service discovery and definition. I would have posted my slides right away, but one of the audience members pointed out that the arrows in the two diagrams should be bidirectional (I begged forgiveness on the grounds that I’m an [...]
Lars Bauerle and Brendan Gibson of TIBCO showed us how Spotfire analytics are being integrated with data from iProcess to identify process improvement. I hadn’t seen Spotfire in any detail before the demo that I saw on Tuesday, and it’s a very impressive visualization and analysis tool; today, they showed iProcess process runtime data copied [...]
Tom Laffey was back hosting the keynote, dressed in a cycling shirt from Team TIBCO, one of the best US women’s pro cycling teams. He was joined briefly by a member of the team who also happens to hold a Ph.D. in biology; like any geeky engineer, Laffey giggled nervously in the presence of an [...]
