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Emerging Trends in BPM – Five Years Later

TweetI just found a short article that I wrote for Savvion (now part of Progress Software) dated November 21, 2006, and decided to post it with some updated commentary on the 5th anniversary of the original paper. Enjoy! Emerging trends in BPMWhat happened in 2006, and what’s ahead in 2007 The BPM market continues to [...]

Enterprise BPM Webinar Q&A Followup

TweetI know, two TIBCO-related posts in one day, but I just received the link to the replay of the Enterprise BPM webinar that I did for TIBCO last week, along with the questions that we didn’t have time to answer during the webinar, and wanted to summarize here. First of all, my slides: Enterprise BPM [...]

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TIBCO Product Strategy With Matt Quinn

TweetMatt Quinn, CTO, gave us the product strategy presentation that will be seen in the general session tomorrow. He repeated the “capture many events, store few transactions” message as well as the five key components of a 21st century platform that we heard from Murrary Rode in the previous session; this is obviously a big [...]

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TIBCO Corporate Strategy Session with Murray Rode

TweetI’m in Vegas this week at TUCON, TIBCO’s user conference, and this afternoon I’m at the analyst event. For the corporate strategy session, they put the industry analysts and financial analysts together, meaning that there were way too many dark suits in the room for my taste (and my wardrobe). Murray Rode, COO, gave us [...]

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OpenEdge BPM: Modifying an OE Application To Integrate With BPM

TweetI sat in on a breakout session today at the Progress Revolution conference on OpenEdge BPM and migrating existing OpenEdge applications to work with (Savvion) BPM. There are some new ways of doing this that are coming in OE 11 that we are not seeing in this session, but I’ve had a few conversations with [...]

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OpenEdge BPM Introduction with @KenWilner

TweetKen Wilner, Progress’ VP of Technology for the OpenEdge product, gave a breakout session on OpenEdge BPM, which integrates the former Savvion BPM platform into the OpenEdge application development environment to allow the business process to be made explicit – externalized from the application – in order to improve agility and visibility. It’s interesting to [...]

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Strategic Synergies Between BPM, EA and SOA

TweetI just had to attend Claus Jensen’s presentation on actionable architecture with synergies between BPM, EA and SOA since I read two of his white papers in preparing the workshop that I delivered here on Wednesday on BPM in an EA context. I also found out that he’s co-authored a new red book on EA [...]

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IBM BPM: Merging the Paths

Tweet“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” “That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes. Silver Blaze, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle And so the fact of me (and others) not yet blogging [...]

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Towards Workflow Verification

TweetContinuing on with the CASCON technical papers session focused on service oriented systems, we saw a paper on Towards Workflow Verification by Leyla Naiza, Ahmed Mashiyat, Hao Wang and MacCaull Wendy of St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. The basis of this research is on model verification to ensure that the model matches the [...]

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Client-side Service Composition Using Generic Service Representative

TweetI’m back for a second day at CASCON, attending the technical papers session focused on service oriented systems. First of the three papers was Client-side Service Composition Using Generic Service Representative by Mehran Najafi and Kamran Sartipi of McMaster University; this concept is presented to prevent the possible privacy and bandwidth problems that can occur [...]

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CASCON Workshop: Accelerate Service Integration In Your BPM and SOA Applications

TweetI’m attending a workshop at the first morning of CASCON, the conference on software research hosted by IBM Canada. There’s quite a bit of good work done at the IBM Toronto software lab, and this annual conference gives them a chance to engage the academic and corporate community to present this research. The focus of [...]

TIBCO BPM Now and Future: iProcess, Meet ActiveMatrix BPM

TweetThe session that I’ve been waiting all day for is with Roger King, who runs BPM product management and strategy for TIBCO, where he discussed the new ActiveMatrix BPM and TIBCOSilver BPM offerings for on-premise and cloud deployments. They’ve been working on this for a couple of years, and obviously keen to get it out [...]

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TIBCO Product Stack and New Releases

TweetWe’re overtime on the general session, 2.75 hours without a break, and Matt Quinn is up to talk about the TIBCO product stack and some of the recent releases as well as upcoming releases: Spotfire 3.1 BusinessEvents 4.0, with an improved Eclipse-based development environment including a rule debugger, and a multi-threaded engine BEViews (BusinessEvents Views) [...]

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TIBCO Products Update

TweetTom Laffey, EVP of Products and Technology, gave us an update at the analyst session yesterday on their new product releases (embargoed until today), but started with an interesting timeline of the their acquisitions. Unlike some companies, who make acquisitions just to remove a competitor from the market, TIBCO appears to have made some thoughtful [...]

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TIBCO Go-To-Market Strategy and Regional Sales Update

TweetFollowing the product update (which is embargoed until tomorrow), Ram Menon was up to talk about their go-to-market strategy. TIBCO has really been known as a powerhouse in the financial services in the past, but given the meltdown in the financial markets over the past two years, they’ve probably realized that this former cash cow [...]

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TIBCO’s Enterprise 3.0 Vision

TweetMurray Rode, TIBCO’s COO, started the TIBCO analyst day with their vision and strategy. The vision: Enterprise 3.0. Srsly. They seem to have co-opted the Enterprise 1.0/2.0 terms to mean what they want it to mean rather than the more accepted views: they define Enterprise 2.0, for example, as everything from the 80’s to 2009, [...]

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Software AG Technology Innovation Fair

TweetFor once, I don’t need to travel to see a (mini) vendor conference: Software AG has taken it on the road and is here in Toronto this morning. I wanted to get an update of what’s happening with webMethods since I attended their user conference in Miami last November, and this seemed like a good [...]

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Process Design Slam 2009 – The Final Judgement #SAPTechEd09 #BPXslam09

TweetTo wrap up the proceedings from last night, I was asked to critique the efforts of the groups and pick a winner: as it turned out, I was the only judge. Each of the groups did great work, and I want to call out some of the specific efforts: The Business Use Case group had [...]

Process Design Slam 2009 #SAPTechEd09 #BPXslam09

Tweet8pm We’re just getting started with the Process Design Slam: one of the face-to-face sessions that make up the collaborative design process that started a couple of months ago on the Design Slam wiki. Marilyn Pratt has identified the six groups that will each work on their part of the design, collaborating between groups (a.k.a. [...]

Can packaged applications ever be Lean? #BTF09

TweetChip Gliedman, George Lawrie and John Rymer participated in a panel on packaged applications and Lean. Rymer argued that packaged apps can never be Lean, since most are locked down, closed engines where the vendor controls the architecture, they’re expensive and difficult to upgrade, they use more functions than customers use, they provide a single [...]