TweetThat was fast! Proving my predictions to be ever so inaccurate when I said that it could be months before this closed, the IBM acquisition of Lombardi has closed less than six weeks after it was announced. Good news for IBM, Lombardi, and Lombardi customers. Not surprisingly, IBM has toned down the “departmental” rhetoric that [...]
Tweet Self-Test Answers and Explanation « BPMS Watch If you took Bruce Silver's BPMN self-test (or even if you didn't), here are the answers, narrated by Bruce. (tags: bpmn bpa)
TweetA bit off topic for my usual blogging here, but I spent this afternoon at the initial planning meeting of CrisisCampTO, the Toronto manifestation of Crisis Commons. Although this is happening here and now in response to the earthquake disaster in Haiti 12 days ago, Crisis Commons has a broader mandate: We are an international [...]
Tweet How to get started blogging :: Blog :: Headshift Great tips on how to get started on a (professional) blog, either for an individual or a company. (tags: blogging) SAP Community Network Blogs NetWeaver BPM 7.20 supports a broader range of standard workflow patterns. (tags: bpa bpm bpmn)
Tweet Gartner Reveals Five Business Process Management Predictions for 2010 … The first three are really about dynamic BPM: creating processes just in time to respond to specific customer needs, using composition tools rather than development. Also, just what we need — a new acronym: BPN = business process network. Won't be any confusion when [...]
Tweet VatorNews – Progress Software buys Savvion for $49M Ronny Kerr (of Vator.tv) on the Progress-Savvion acquisition. “Also, as part of the deal, six Savvion employees joining Progress will receive equity awards of about 110,000 shares, including stock options and restricted stock. Progress has not yet revealed how many of Savvion’s 200 employees or so [...]
TweetBPM acquisitions must be in the air: today, Progress Software announced that they’ve bought Savvion for $49M. This is hot on the heels of IBM’s announcement last month that they’re buying Lombardi, with one huge difference being that Progress doesn’t already have a BPM product in their lineup, whereas IBM has two. Of the three [...]
Tweet Business Process Modelling (BPM) Best Practice « Paul Mathiesen's Blog The first part of this post is a bit motherhood, but the last bit — starting at "And finally…" — has some interesting thoughts on the differences between how academics, vendors and practitioners view process modeling and its benefits. (tags: bpa) Introduction To BPMN [...]
Tweet Trends: End of an era for Open Text? Open Text discontinues their standalone search product, focusing solely on search within their ECM product. I think that this is a mistake for them, since a comprehensive content management strategy for an enterprise will almost always include some sort of search (e.g., for those documents that [...]
Tweet BPM Resources My white paper for Appian on BPM centers of excellence (link near bottom of page) (tags: bpm coe)
