Xiao Liu from Swinburne University of Technology presented his paper on A Probabilistic Strategy for Setting Temporal Constraints in Scientific Workflows, co-authored by Jinjun Chen and Yun Yang. This is motivated by the problem of using only a few overall user-specified temporal constraints on a process without considering system performance and issues of local fine-grained [...]
Tagged IntlBPMI’m eager to learn more about the relationship between policies, procedures and rules, and how they relate to compliance, so I sat in on a presentation by Peter Still of RuleBurst. There’s a pretty high percentage of vendors on the speaker roster, but so far the quality has been good so no complaints. The theme [...]
Tagged BusinessRulesForumI spent some time this morning with the guys from BWise, which turned into a very informative session. Although FileNet has partnered with them primarily for their compliance solution, they do so much more in the entire area of internal controls. The compliance frameworks certainly are impressive, though. I’ll definitely be taking a closer look [...]
Tagged FileNet, usernet2005This article in Intelligent Enterprise last week questions why ECM vendors — including Hummingbird, FileNet and Open Text — have been highlighting their WCM products lately, but they miss the mark on the answer: Is it the fact that online advertising and e-commerce initiatives are back? Is it the prospect of capturing fast growth in [...]
Okay, that was a bit longer than two weeks. As well as taking some time off to entertain a friend visiting from Australia, I’ve been immersed in some client work and the development of a BPM course that I can offer on a wider basis, both of which have me looking at BPM, corporate performance [...]
I had several appointments and errands today, and I listened to podcasts as I walked around downtown Toronto. One of them was the Sound of Vision podcast from back in May wherein Ethan Johnson interviews me about BPM (starting at 21:00 in the ‘cast), and there’s one point where I get really passionate about the [...]
I tuned in to a Global 360 webinar today for long enough to hear Nathanial Palmer from Delphi speak about process templates and their importance in BPM (you should be able to find a replay of the webinar here in a few days). He revealed some very telling numbers, soon to be officially released, from [...]
I watched a webinar earlier this week about BPM and compliance, a topic that I’ve been working on for a while, in which Global 360 announced their Active Compliance Framework (today’s Computer Business Review also reviewed their announcement). The speakers were from Doculabs and BWise, the latter of which has just partnered with Global 360 [...]
Tagged GartnerI happened across this article on how Sarbanes-Oxley is a “business blessing in disguise” since it can show you where your organization’s weak points lie, so that presumably you can fix them. Although it’s primarily discussing ERP systems, this same concept (business improvement/competitive advantage through compliance) is an area that I’m addressing for a client [...]
I’m listening in on a Ziff Davis webinar “The State of Business Integration: An Overview of Patterns and Best Practices”, featuring Ajay Patel, VP of of Server Technology for Oracle. In the course of the webinar, they’ve been doing a few listener polls, and this one was particularly interesting: In other words, 27% of the [...]
