8pm 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. [...]
Chip 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 [...]
Benoit Lheureux from Gartner’s Infrastructure and Architecture group gave a presentation on process implementation patterns. I think that he sees BPM as just part of SOA, and presents as such, but I’m willing to give him a pass on that. He discussed five styles of flow management in SOA: Microflows: fine-grained services implemented via flows [...]
Manfred Reichert of Ulm University and Barbara Weber of University of Innsbruck presented a tutorial on the challenges, paradigms and technologies involved in enabling flexibility in process-aware information systems (PAIS). Process flexibility is important, but you have to consider both build time flexibility (how to quickly implement and configure new processes) and run time flexibility [...]
Rania Khalaf of IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center presented a paper on enabling community participation for workflows through extensibility and sharing, specifically within a hosted BPM system. She is focused on three areas of collaboration: extension activities (services), collaborative workflow modeling, and collaboration on executing workflow instances. There are two key aspects to this: method [...]
I had a chance last week for a pre-release briefing from The Open Group’s Chris Harding, Forum Director for SOA and Semantic Interoperability, on two new standards that they are releasing today: the Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) and the SOA Governance Framework. These are both vendor-neutral (although several large vendors were involved in their [...]
This post is both long, and long overdue. It’s based on several online sessions with Donka Dimitrova and Jie Deng of the SAP NetWeaver BPM product management team, then an update with Wolfgang Hilpert and Thomas Volmering at SAPPHIRE in May when the product entered unrestricted release. In the past few weeks, there’s been a [...]
It’s impossible for me to pass up a standards discussion (how sad is that?), so I switched from the business analysis stream to the SOA stream for Heather Kreger’s discussion of SOA standards at an architectural level. OASIS, the Open Group and OMG got together to talk about some of the overlapping standards impacting this: [...]
I was already planning to attend the Open Group Conference in Toronto next week to catch up on what’s happening in the enterprise architecture space, and now I’ve been invited to join Dana Gardner’s panel on Monday morning, which will also be recorded as a podcast. The panel is on architecture’s scope extending beyond the [...]
The webinar that I recorded a couple of weeks back for SearchSOA has finally made it online, although I can only find it on the SearchCIO site. You have to register for the site in order to listen to it, although it’s free.
This seems to be my month for webinars and podcasts. Here’s the line-up: I recorded a webinar for SearchSOA a few weeks ago on a pragmatic approach to using SOA and BPM together, particularly in the area of service discovery and specification. Unfortunately, I can’t find it on their site, so not sure if it’s [...]
Karl-Heinz Streibich gave the opening keynote; some of the same messages as his address at the media and analyst forum yesterday, plus some messaging about how SOA is a paradigm shift, and the Net generation entering the workforce is a strong driver for modernization and integration. He made the point that process innovation outranks product [...]
I’m spending the morning at the media and analyst forum at Software AG’s user conference, Innovation World, in Miami. The first half of the morning covered mainframe modernization, plus a presentation by Miko Matsumura (who I met last week at the Business Rules Forum), Deputy CTO, on the state of SOA adoption. He’s just published [...]
Pedram Abrari, founder and CTO of Corticon, did a breakout session on model-driven architecture, SOA, and the role that rules play in all of this. I’m also in the only room in conference center that’s close enough to the lobby to pick up the hotel wifi, and I found an electrical outlet, so I’m in [...]
I ended up wrapped up in a discussion at the break that had me arrive late to the last session of the day; Steve Jones of Ultimus is going through many of the technical underpinnings of V8 for designers and developers, particularly those that are relevant to the people in the audience who will be [...]
Chris Adams is back for a somewhat longer session — I think that he zipped through the previous overview session in about 5 minutes to make up time on the schedule — to give us a lot more detail on the V8 product features. Some of this will only be of interest to Ultimus customers, [...]
Forrester has released the 2008 version of their Wave report on integration-centric BPM suites; you can find it on Vitria’s site here (registration required). I won’t reproduce the chart here since that always seems to get me in trouble, but suffice it say that Software AG (the former webMethods product), IBM (various WebSphere bits), Vitria, [...]
I just received a review copy of Matjaz Juric and Kapil Pant’s new book, Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL. It’s on my list of recent books that I’ve received to review, and I hope to get to it soon. According to the authors’ description, you’ll learn the following from this book: Modeling [...]
IBM and ILOG announced today that IBM will be acquiring ILOG for €10/share, or about $US340 million in total. IBM’s goal is to integrate ILOG’s business rules technology into their existing BPM and SOA offerings: When completed, the acquisition of ILOG will strengthen IBM’s BPM and SOA position by providing customers a full set of [...]
I was going to just link to Mike Kavis’ post on the Top 10 Reasons Why People Are Making SOA Fail, but I wanted to added some of my own comments. By the way, he’s talking primarily about IT people, not business people, in the fail part of the equation. Number 1 reason: they fail [...]
