For the first breakout session today, I heard Bill Swanton, who’s VP Research at AMR Research. Although the topic was “BPM is the value in SOA”, Swanton talked a lot about SOA-ing your ERP. AMR has obviously done a lot of research in this area, and he had some good thoughts on the ERP long-term [...]
Following the keynote by Prof. Scheer, we had the Gartner tag team of Jim Sinur (who covers BPM overall) and Michael Blechar (who covers modelling, information architecture, and model-driven architecture) on the subject of “What’s New With BPM?” They did a great back-and-forth presentation on stage, although they did end up with the inevitable plug [...]
The opening keynote this morning was by Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer, the founder and serious brain-trust behind IDS Scheer. You have to love this guy: not only is he brilliant and able to describe his ideas clearly, he opened and closed his session by playing sax in a jazz trio on stage. He covered a lot [...]
I’m going to do as much live blogging as possible in order to give you a sense of what’s going on here, which means that I won’t be doing a lot of in-depth analysis in these posts, but will try to add more of that after a bit of introspection. This is the first IDS [...]
I’m at the IDS Scheer user conference this week, so expect to see a lot of blogging about that around here. Leaving Toronto in -15C for +15C in Jacksonville, Florida wasn’t my only reason for attending; I’m very interested in how people are modelling their processes more collaboratively, and a room full of real users [...]
