TweetFollowing the opening keynote at Building Business Capability, I attended the session about Elevations Credit Union’s journey to process excellence. Rather than a formal presentation, this was done as a sit-down discussion with Carla Wolfe, senior business analyst at Elevations CU being interviewed by Mihnea Galateanu, Chief Storyteller for Blueworks Live at IBM. Elevations obviously [...]
Tagged bbccon11TweetMark Cotgrove and Clark Swain from Nimbus Partners presented in a breakout session on Nimbus and how it fits into the bigger TIBCO picture, as an expansion of the short presentation we saw from Cotgrove at the analyst session yesterday. To sum up the message from yesterday, Nimbus Control provides an essential bit of business-driven [...]
Tagged tucon2011TweetTom Laffey, EVP of products and technology, moderated a session highlighting three of TIBCO’s recent acquisitions: OpenSpirit, Loyalty Lab and Nimbus. Clay Harter, CTO of OpenSpirit (which was acquired by TIBCO a year ago), discussed their focus on delivering data and integration applications to the oil and gas industry. Their runtime framework provided a canonical [...]
Tagged tucon2011TweetBack in May, I wrote about a cool new cloud-based service called RAVEN Cloud, which translated natural language text into process maps. As I wrote then: You start out either with one of the standard text examples or by entering your own text to describe the process; you can use some basic text formatting to [...]
TweetThe last speaker at the CASCON workshop is Sebastian Carbajales of the IBM Toronto Software Lab (on the WebSphere BPM team), on the interaction between a technical business analyst using WebSphere Business Modeler and an IT developer using WebSphere Integration Developer, particularly how changes made to the business-level model in WBM are reflected in WID. [...]
Tagged cascon2010, torontoTweetJochen Küster of the IBM Research Zurich lab (where they do a lot of BPM research), was first after the morning break at our CASCON workshop on collaboration and consistency management in BPM, presenting on process model change management. This was more of a technical talk about the tools required. As motivation, process models are [...]
Tagged cascon2010, torontoTweetJanette Wong, a long-time IBMer who is now an independent consultant working as a solutions architect, discussed the use of workflow patterns in modeling business requirements and turning these into executable processes. She used an example of an “authorization” business requirement, where manager can create confidential requests, and transfer those confidential requests to others. This [...]
Tagged cascon2010TweetNext in the workshop was Moises Branco from University of Waterloo; he previously worked with the Bank of Northeast of Brazil (BNB) and discussed his work there as well as his current research that resulted from some of the challenges identified there. Their motivation for BPM came from a revision of their IT processes in [...]
Tagged cascon2010Tweet In a break from the usual lineup of academics and researches, Peter Braun of Bank of America was up next in the collaboration and consistency management workshop to present on maintaining consistency across BPM initiatives’ content. They use IBM’s WebSphere Business Modeler (WBM), Information Framework (IFW, effectively a set of reference models in an [...]
Tagged cascon2010TweetKrzysztof Czarnecki of the University of Waterloo introduced this morning’s workshop on Effective Collaboration and Consistency Management in Business Process Modeling, starting with a discussion of consistency management in modeling: within versions of the same model type, but also between models of different types, such as sequence diagrams and state charts, where there may be [...]
Tagged cascon2010TweetMy last session for the day at CASCON is to hear Alex Lau of IBM, and Andrei Solomon and Marin Litoiu of York University discuss their research project on real time monitoring and simulation of business processes (they also presented a related paper this morning, although I missed the session). This is one of the [...]
Tagged cascon2010TweetAlthough we didn’t have a chance for a demo, I had a quick briefing with Greg Carter, Metastorm’s CTO, on the announcements that they made today. M3 Collaborative Modeling We discussed M3, their cloud-based collaborative process modeling tool. This is one of the first BPA/BPM offerings that I’ve seen on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, [...]
TweetDavid Ruiz, who founded ViewStar (an early document imaging and workflow package from the 1980’s that I remember well, and was eventually absorbed by Global360) is now with Ravenflow, which specializes in natural language processing for visual requirements definition. Their RAVEN engine is a natural language solution that they are applying to a couple of [...]
TweetToday’s keynote was focused on customers and how they improving their processes in order to become more agile, reduce costs and become more competitive in the marketplace. After a talk and intro by Carrie Lee, business news correspondent and WSJ columnist, Beth Smith and Shanker Ramamurthy of IBM hosted Richard Ward of Blue Cross Blue [...]
Tagged ibmimpactTweetThe second of the analyst roundtables that I attended was with Angel Diaz, VP of BPM, and Rod Favaron, who used to head up Lombardi and is now part of the WebSphere team. My biggest question for them was what’s happening (if anything) with some consolidation of the BPM portfolio; after much gnashing of teeth [...]
Tagged ibmimpactTweetThe keynotes sessions this morning were typical “big conference”: too much loud music, comedians and irrelevant speakers for my taste, although the brief addresses by Steve Mills and Craig Hayman as well as this morning’s press release showed that process is definitely high on IBM’s mind. The breakout session that I attended following that, however, [...]
Tagged ibmimpactTweetIt’s the first day of Gartner’s BPM summit in Las Vegas, so expect to see a lot of vendor announcements this week. Some, like Global 360, had the decency to arrange for a briefing for me last week so that I could write something about their announcement in advance; others, who shall remain nameless, waited [...]
TweetNext up was a panel discussion with David Haigh of Johnson & Johnson, Sabrina Lemos of United Airlines, and Gary Kucera of Kaplan Higher Education, moderated by Charles Spina of e-Zsigma. United Airlines has a unique project going on in one of their freight-related operations: they decided to outsource the operation in order to be [...]
Tagged LSS&PITweetI missed the first morning of the IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement conference in Toronto today, but with my usual impeccable timing, showed up just in time for lunch (where we had to explain the rules of curling to the American attendees). The first session this afternoon is with David Brown, a black [...]
Tagged LSS&PITweetIRM is running both a BPM and business analysis conference in London on September 27-29, and the calls for speakers are open until March 8th. The BPM conference is looking for presentations on: Building BPM capabilities Using BPM to change how businesses are managed BPM governance and the centre of expertise BPM success stories Process [...]
