Having spent almost two months without getting on a plane, I’m back on the road for the next few weeks: April 22-23: Washington DC for the Architecture and Process conference April 29-May 2: San Francisco for TUCON, TIBCO’s user conference May 5-7: Orlando for SAPPHIRE, SAP’s user conference May 13-14: Chicago for BEA.Participate.08, BEA’s user [...]
Last session of the conference, and it was a tough choice: the ALBPM Experience track was featuring a talk about BAM, but since I’d already covered this in the past two days, I decided on the performance tuning session. Unfortunately, 10 minutes into the time slot, the Q&A for the previous session was still dragging [...]
Brandon Dean of BEA talked about how to use BPM for compliance and improved visibility into processes. I wrote a course on compliance and BPM recently, and I was interested in how they’re seeing this roll out amongst their customer base. Regulatory compliance (e.g., SOX) and any sort of commercial compliance (e.g., SLAs) or organizational [...]
First session of the last morning, Eduardo Chiocconi of BEA and Rob Wald of JPMorgan Chase talked about the ALBPM UI: what comes out of the box, and what you can build yourself. Out of the box, ALBPM has three user interfaces alternatives: HiPer WorkSpace, a full user workspace with menus based on their permissions, [...]
Eduardo Chiocconi of BEA gave us a technical view of the ALBPM BAM functionality: what’s available out of the box, the extensions, how to create customized dashboards, security, and a bit of the architecture underlying it all so that we have a bit of an understanding of what happens in the underlying services and data [...]
Jesper Joergensen gave us BEA‘s view of how BPM is changing business and the future of BPM. Actually, he starts out with Gartner’s view of expected market growth (hockey, anyone?) and how BPM is becoming more and more a part of organizations’ productivity improvement initiatives as it moves from opportunistic to pervasive adoption. There’s a number [...]
Last session of the morning was Mateo Almenta Recca of BEA and Kunal Shah of Citigroup talking about advanced process modelling — specifically process exceptions — in ALBPM. Exceptions can be either system exceptions, such as a service being unavailable, or business (user-defined) exceptions, such as an account being closed. System exceptions are typically handled [...]
I started my day in a session about what’s coming up in future versions of ALBPM; unfortunately, most of the information hasn’t been publicly released, so you’ll have to wait to read about it at a later date. BEA will be holding BPM steering group meetings in July, so if you’re an ALBPM customer and [...]
One hour left, and 25% of my battery life. It’s a race to the finish. Craig Cochrane from BEA‘s professional services and Becky Lewis of SAIC finished off the first day with a session on the specific nature of BPM system roll-outs. Cochrane pointed out some of the critical groundwork to cover in any BPM [...]
I’m jumping around between tracks (and hence rooms): I started the afternoon in the ALUI Experience track, then on to the ALBPM Technical/Developer track, and now I’m in the ALBPM Experience track for a discussion of best practices for managing BPM projects with Dan Atwood of BEA (another former Fuego employee) and Karl Djernal of [...]
Mariano Benitez of BEA (part of the original Fuego team that built what is now ALBPM) and Bhaskar Rayavaram of Bear Stearns (who was with Fuego before joining Bear Stearns) presented a unified view of BPM and SOA. Benitez started with some pretty basic stuff about how BPM consumes services, either system-level or presentation-level, and [...]
For the first breakout session, I attended BPM 101 for Portals to hear Jesper Joergensen of BEA‘s product marketing group and Bob O’Connor of Pratt & Whitney. Jesper started out by giving a brief review of BPM (the usual model/execute/analyze/optimize cycle), since this session is in the portals track and most of the audience is likely [...]
The general sessions finished with Adrian McDermott and Jay Simons from BEA engineering and product marketing to talk about — no surprise by now — the new Enterprise 2.0 products. This conference is starting to look like one big launch party for Pages, Ensemble and Pathways, although I can understand their excitement. They describe Pages [...]
The general session continues with some BEA product and services information from Shane Pearson, VP of Marketing and Product Management someone whose name that I missed since I was late coming into the session after the break (someone help me out with the name, please), particularly what’s been done in the past year: In AquaLogic [...]
Last up before the morning break was Brian Abrahamson, Director of Enterprise Architecture at PG&E; although I’ve been interested in the portal presentations prior to this, I was relieved to finally get some BPM/SOA content. They started on a huge business transformation strategy two years ago due to various factors such as deregulation and changing [...]
The Ministry of Education of Luxembourg has implemented an educational portal using BEA technology, and Daniel Weiler, a professor at the Center of Technology for Education, discussed what they’ve learned over the 5 years since first implementation. They had a vision 5 years ago of a digital learning place that was accessible anywhere on any type of [...]
Next up were Frank Ybarra and Bambi George of Applebee’s, a customer of BEA, discussing their corporate (internal-facing) portal and business agility. They’re a public company (for now) with almost 2,000 restaurants in 49 states and 17 other countries, 75% of which are franchised, so they have a lot of internal communications challenges. They use [...]
Day 1 of the BEA user conference in Atlanta, and we start out with a morning of general sessions hosted by Ira Pollack, SVP Sales at BEA; the remainder of the 2-1/2 day conference is all breakout sessions. There’s wifi around but I seem to be missing the conference code necessary to get logged on, [...]
I’ll be blogging live from the BEA user conference this week in Atlanta. I arrived here today and had a quick look around the evening partner exhibition/drinks reception, but I’m really looking forward to the sessions tomorrow. Jesper Joergensen has also promised that I’ll get a proper demo of both their BPM product and the [...]
