Comments on: The missing links http://www.column2.com/2008/07/the-missing-links/ BPM, Enterprise 2.0 and technology trends in business. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:37:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sandy Kemsley http://www.column2.com/2008/07/the-missing-links/#comment-8415 Sandy Kemsley Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:44:50 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2008/07/the-missing-links/#comment-8415 Mike, see <a href="http://www.column2.com/2008/06/oracle-bea-versus-ibm-filenet-the-borg-versus-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/" rel="nofollow">this post that I wrote about the IBM-FileNet acquisition</a> (comparing it to the Oracle-BEA acquisition): I believe that IBM is gradually marginalizing FileNet BPM in favor of WebSphere BPM. As WebSphere adds human workflow capabilities, the need for FileNet BPM becomes less and less: although it is integrated with the content repository, it's not such a tight integration that you couldn't do it with any other BPM product (including WebSphere). At the time of the acquisition, I thought that IBM should have taken FileNet BPM and moved it over to become the human-facing side of WebSphere BPM, but they've gone another route that will see FileNet BPM die a slow and lingering death. Mike, see this post that I wrote about the IBM-FileNet acquisition (comparing it to the Oracle-BEA acquisition): I believe that IBM is gradually marginalizing FileNet BPM in favor of WebSphere BPM. As WebSphere adds human workflow capabilities, the need for FileNet BPM becomes less and less: although it is integrated with the content repository, it’s not such a tight integration that you couldn’t do it with any other BPM product (including WebSphere). At the time of the acquisition, I thought that IBM should have taken FileNet BPM and moved it over to become the human-facing side of WebSphere BPM, but they’ve gone another route that will see FileNet BPM die a slow and lingering death.

]]> By: Mike Hill http://www.column2.com/2008/07/the-missing-links/#comment-8413 Mike Hill Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:14:15 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2008/07/the-missing-links/#comment-8413 Why do you say good-bye FileNet in relation to the WebShere offering? Mike Why do you say good-bye FileNet in relation to the WebShere offering?

Mike

]]> By: Carter Lusher http://www.column2.com/2008/07/the-missing-links/#comment-8406 Carter Lusher Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:06:19 +0000 http://www.column2.com/2008/07/the-missing-links/#comment-8406 Sandy, Thanks for the link. Sandy, Thanks for the link.

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