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Mike Kavis' views on the security of the cloud, and why private clouds are not such a great idea most of the time.
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A post of the collected views of several Forrester analysts on the Chordiant acquisition by Pega. The high points: this is strengthening Pega's position in customer experience/customer service; the Chordiant products will probably end up folded into the Pega platform (duh, what else could possibly happen?). My opinion: this is fine from the application level, but there's an issue about competing rules engines underneath all of that: for customers of one or the other's BRMS, there may be some upset.
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Looking forward to some of the sessions in the social business applications and platforms track at Enterprise 2.0: this introduction of social functionality into enterprise apps is much more my side of enterprise 2.0 than the standalone E2.0 apps.
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A bit of an obvious point, but one worth stating: handoffs between people are the most likely point of failure in almost any process, not just dynamic processes.
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It will be interesting to go back to all of the newly-emerging BPM social communities and see how they measure up to these social needs.
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A quick tutorial on getting started with ARISalign for collaborative process modeling.
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Part of a continuing discussion on whether swimlanes have value in business-focused process models. Given that the basic set of elements in BPMN 2.0 does NOT include swimlanes, obviously a few people think that they're not essential; in practice, I see them used and understood by most business people inside organizations, so don't see the issue.
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Looking at process data from different perspectives: what the process participant cares about process instance data, and the implications for modeling processes.
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taraneon has announced their Process TestLab, where they will test out and validate your processes based on completeness, risk and performance, and acceptance. They won an innovation award at CEBIT for this, so might be worth watching.
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Results of a recent BPM survey: "there is a general lack of knowledge and awareness of BPM within organisations – especially amongst senior management"
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Differences between big and small SOA implementations: this is really more of comparison of legacy versus greenfield SOA implementations, but there are some aspects based on company size.
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A review of Bonitasoft's open source BPM.
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The entire list of 81 posts by AIIM on "8 things you need to know about…"
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Ovum's report on the ARISalign online BPM community. Direct link to PDF.
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Making the distinction between events and data: basically, data are derived from events.
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Are you using high-tech copy machines or multi-function printers as documents scanners? You might want to check how much data is maintained locally, especially before discarding the machine.
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We certainly didn't invent business intelligence visualizations in the past few years, as Timo Elliot points out: here's some lovely examples from the 1870 US census.
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A few BPM vendors are continuing to rely on the new Visio and SharePoint both for business-focused process modeling and collaboration. As I told one of them, sleeping with an elephant has its risks: it's nice and warm right up to the point where they roll over and crush you.
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An ex-Apama employee (Apama is now Progress' CEP) who now works for a competing vendor has an unsurprisingly negative post about Progress RPM.
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Paper from IEEE Computer, March 2010, on process mining. IEEE membership required, or else you have to pay for it.
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…in the absence of any standards for doing so.
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On Microsoft Exchange? Wish you were on Google Apps instead? There are now some good migration tools to move you over.
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One of a flurry of posts on checklist, and how these fit in with BPM and case management.
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Stepping through what it really takes to use SAP NetWeaver BPM.
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Neil Ward-Dutton's post on the Progress analyst day in Boston last week, which we both attended.
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I saw the embedded XKCD cartoon about Google results for queries including a variable; this post expands on that to discuss how you can actually use Google for data mining.
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Way more exciting than the iTunes app store for those of us with the enterprise in mind, Google's new marketplace has hit the ground running, and has 1,500 apps available. As this post points out, combine that with over 1,000 apps in the Salesforce.com app exchange, and you have a pretty serious bunch of cloud-based apps for running your business.
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Koulopoulos' newest ebook (free) on how the cloud is changing every aspect of our lives, from work to play.
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A nice first-person story about using ARISalign by a software program manager within Software AG, who doesn't have any prior experience with process modeling.
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The next Toronto Girl Geek Dinner is on April 5th, and features the CEO of PostRank, which monitors and collects social engagement events correlated with online content. Remember, you don't need to be a Girl Geek to attend, although one does need to invite you.
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Tony Baer on the Pega-Chordiant acquisition: lots of potential synergy, but this will serve as a test of how well Pega will be able to grow through acquisitions.
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James Taylor's views on Pega acquiring Chordiant. He has a pretty good understanding of the underlying rules technology in each of those products, and does see some risk in the difference of perspectives between the two.
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Says one system architect: "You don't get high marks anymore for simply writing Web service wrappers around existing applications, SOA is more problem-based now."
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The overlap between case management and various other technologies: process, forms, CRM, rules, collaboration, knowledge management, and ECM.
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Tons of pointers to information about open data.
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A review of an academic paper on closing the model-reality divide: the disconnect between those responsible for process modelling & those that execute the models.
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Direct link to the ARISalign launch webinar replay. Registration required.
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Why you can't just implement SOA without thinking through the methodology: "While most IT shops are now doing some level of SOA, few of them have embraced or implemented the methodology, IT management, and IT-business interaction changes that are necessary to gain most of the benefits of SOA. SOA has succeeded as a technology set but the accompanying people changes have not penetrated. And most IT organizations are losing their SOA benefits because of this."
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6 Sample SAP NetWeaver BPM 7.20 Dashboards implemented with Visual Composer. Shows the data models behind the dashboards, and how things are connected up.
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The idea of having a mashup app store within an enterprise, where people can add their own apps, or consume those of others: the iTunes app store model for the enterprise. Clever idea.
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A good list; I can definitely relate to some of these, such as "trying to use BPMS software for something it wasn't designed for".
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Progress' press release on their new RPM suite. Also see my coverage from the analyst day last week in Boston.
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DemoCamp Toronto is coming up on March 29th — you can get your tickets here. Always an interesting evening, showcasing new technology that you've probably never seen before.
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Great post by Dick Hirsch of Siemens on "process populism" (a term used recently by Forrester analysts) and whether it will lead to process democracy or process anarchy. As he puts it, "The assumption that the revolution can be controlled / "harnessed" is a very dangerous one".
