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Some nice new social aspects added to Lombardi's Blueprint.

BPMN – the novel. No, really.

A set of tests to determine if you need business rules. For most of the business processes that I see, the answer is yes to at least four of these five tests.

Bruce Silver's review of IBM's upcoming BlueWorks community process modelling site. There seems to be a lot of BPM community sites springing up all of a sudden; it's going to be difficult to wade through and figure out what they all do, and where it is worthwhile participating. This offers some free process modelling and collaboration tools as well as the usual community stuff such as articles and forums. Export of the models from this environment is only discussed for WebSphere Business Modeler, not to FileNet P8 BPM.

A 14-minute demo of creating and executing a process on TIBCO's iProcess platform. Nicely scripted walkthrough. Also, ScreenToaster looks like a cool way to do a screen recording and publish it to their site or YouTube, or download it as a .mov file, all using a free Java applet-driven site.

A presentation from several months ago showing IBM's roadmap for ECM (including BPM) in the FileNet suite. A lot of this now refers to already-released products.