TweetGeorge Barlow of Appian, Jim Rudden of Lombardi, Bino Jos of Intalio and Derek Miers of BPM Focus discussed the intersection of BPM and SaaS. Appian has Appian Anywhere and Lombardi has Blueprint, Derek has opinions about everything, but I’m not sure why a process expert from Intalio (who appears to have little understanding of [...]
TweetDerek Miers gave a short session that was supposed to be about the business benefits of BPM standards, but ended up as a bit of a BPM standards bun fight. As I mentioned in my first post this morning, I think that Think Tank needs more about standards, I’m just not sure that a few [...]
TweetPat Steinmann of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, who I saw speak at the Appian conference last month, was here to retell the story of their IT services requests process. Go back and read my original post for some of the details, I won’t repeat them here, but it’s important to understand the significant benefits that they’ve seen [...]
TweetJim’s back at Gartner, and one of his first public presentations since his return was here at the opening keynote, talking about the economics of business process and how global competition leverages local benefits. He wrote this material before the past two weeks of financial market Armageddon, but it’s general enough that it works across [...]
TweetOMG’s BPM Think Tank is taking place Monday and Tuesday this week in Chicago, and I’ll be blogging from there. A bit late, but I create a Facebook event for it. Join up if you’re attending or want to watch any conversation that occurs on the event page.
Tagged OMGTweetI have my fall schedule mostly sorted out, and here’s my confirmed lineup so far: OMG BPM Think Tank, October 6-7, Chicago. I’m on the program committee, and will be leading a roundtable on achieving collaboration between business and IT in BPM on the first day. PegaWorld, the Pegasystems user conference, October 19-21, Washington DC. [...]
TweetI’ve been sticking close to home for the summer, but my fall lineup is about to begin. So far, I’m definitely attending the following: Business Objects Influencer Summit and SAP SME Day, August 12-13, Boston. This is an analyst/press event, not a public conference, but I’ll be blogging from there. International Conference on BPM, September [...]
Tagged appian, business rules forum, Gartner, OMG, SAPTweetThe wiki for the recent BPM Think Tank has been opened up for public viewing, and Derek Miers has pre-loaded it with links to some of the related documents as well as links to my coverage of the sessions. If you attended, you should have received an editing password for the wiki, which allows you [...]
TweetLast BPM Think Tank post, I’ll summarize the notes on the roundtables that I didn’t attend, based on the 3-5 minute summary that each facilitator presented. Rules and Process (Paul Vincent): Defined types of rules Handling business decisions within processes How to separate and model rules from process at design time BPM and Microsoft Technologies [...]
TweetI facilitated one of the last roundtables of on the conference, about Enterprise 2.0 and BPM mashups. Mashups (considered a part of Enterprise 2.0) are lightweight integration of web-based services and data, often in ways that the service providers never intended them to be used; personally, I think that as mashup techniques get easier, mashups will [...]
TweetColin Teubner of Forrester gave us a lunchtime presentation, hence my notes were on paper and it’s taken a bit of time to transcribe them. However, I’m on a roll to get all my Think Tank coverage wrapped up today so that I can take 4 days off for the holiday weekend. Colin’s talk was [...]
TweetHere’s some assorted notes on all the other roundtables that I didn’t attend: each of the facilitators gave a 3-5 minute wrap up of their discussion. The notes from all of these sessions are supposed to end up on a wiki for the conference, so there should be more information around eventually as that fills [...]
TweetThe second roundtable that I attended on last Tuesday’s sessions was on BPEL, headed up by Ismael Ghalimi. It was great to finally meet Ismael in person: we’ve been corresponding by email and blog comments for quite a while, and have even done a webinar together, but this is the first time that we’ve been [...]
Tagged BPELTweetI’m just getting to the last of the BPM Think Tank sessions, namely, the roundtables and one lunch session that I had documented on paper. The three sessions of roundtables spanned Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, and were some of the best conversations that I had at the conference. I’ll cover each of the ones that I attended [...]
Tagged BPMNTweetWe’re starting to wind down a bit, and many of the east coast people have taken off already to avoid the red-eye flight home so the audience is getting a bit sparse. Those of us with presentations this afternoon, however, are still here. First after lunch is a panel on BPM & SOA, and how [...]
TweetNext up was a panel of BPM vendors: Phil Gilbert (Lombardi), Angel Diaz (IBM), Marco ten Vanholt (SAP BPX), Burley Kawasaki (Microsoft), Scott Byrnes (Handysoft) and David Shaffer (Oracle). Derek Miers moderated, and posed a series of questions to the panelists rather than having the panelists do short presentations as we saw on previous panels [...]
TweetDay 3 opened with a keynote from Randy Heffner of Forrester on BPM in the world of digital business architecture. He spoke about the old model of enterprise applications, which was that of functional silos with point-to-point integration between them, and how that’s changing to a process-centric model: not just using BPM to connect up [...]
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TweetJim Rudden of Lombardi gave the first presentation after lunch. Like the BEA presentation yesterday, Lombardi gets this short timeslot since they’re a platinum sponsor of the event, and Jim’s topic was on modelling your business, not just your process. I’ve seen a similar presentation, likely in a Lombardi webinar, with the three key areas [...]
TweetWe had two case studies about BPM projects in the real world, the first of which was Lance Gibbs talking about AFLAC using BPM in their administrative services. They started with their invoice reconciliation process, since they dealt with over 500,000 remittances each month, and 30% of them didn’t match the invoice so couldn’t be [...]
