Robert Shapiro spoke on a webinar today about BPMN 2.0, including some of the history of how BPMN got to this point, changes and new features from the previous version and the challenges that those may create, the need for portability and conformance, and an update on XPDL 2.2. The webinar was hosted by the [...]
Also tagged BPDM, BPMN, XPDLNot only did Oracle schedule this briefing on Canada Day, the biggest holiday in Canada, but they forced me to download the Real Player plug-in in order to participate. The good part, however, is that it was full streaming audio and video alongside the slides. Charles Phillips, Oracle President, kicked off with a welcome and [...]
Also tagged BPMN, ESBActive Endpoints is hosting a webinar this Thursday on BPEL Basics for Java Developers, featuring Ron Romano, their principal consulting architect. From their information: A high-level overview of BPEL and its importance in a web-services environment is presented, along with a brief discussion of the basic BPEL activities and how they relate to Java concepts. [...]
Also taggedThe 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 [...]
Also tagged BPMThinkTankI gave a webinar last week, sponsored by TIBCO, on business process modeling; you’ll be able to find a replay of the webinar, complete with the slides, here). Here’s the questions that we received during the webinar and I didn’t have time to answer on the air: Q: Any special considerations for “long-running” processes – [...]
Also tagged BPMN, XPDLLast in the morning’s general session was Tom Laffey, TIBCO’s EVP of products and technologies, and Matt Quinn, VP of product management and strategy. Like Ranadivé’s talk earlier, they’re talking about enterprise virtualization: positioning messaging, for example, as virtualizing the network layer, and BPM as enterprise process virtualization. I’m not completely clear if virtualization is just [...]
Also tagged BPMN, TIBCOI just listened in on To BPEL or Not To BPEL, the title of which I believe resolves the pronunciation issue once and for all: although the presenter (Danny van der Rijn, principal architect at TIBCO) said “BEH-pull”, clearly it must be “BEE-pull” to make the title work. Intended for those with a technical interest in [...]
Also taggedAn interesting bit on the WfMC site comparing XPDL and BPEL that was highlighted in a WfMC mailing this week: BPEL and XPDL are entirely different yet complimentary standards. BPEL is an “execution language” designed to provide a definition of web services orchestration, specifically the underlying sequence of interactions, the flow of data from point-to-point. For [...]
Also taggedThere’s been a few interesting posts about BPEL lately. First, SOA World Magazine (which appears on the WebSphere Journal site, not sure if it actually exists elsewhere since there was no back-link) has a post on BPEL’s Growing Up, covering a brief history, current status and the view forward, including BPEL4People: Going forward, we’re already [...]
Also taggedThe opening keynote this morning was by Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer, the founder and serious brain-trust behind IDS Scheer. You have to love this guy: not only is he brilliant and able to describe his ideas clearly, he opened and closed his session by playing sax in a jazz trio on stage. He covered a lot [...]
Also tagged aris, ARISProcessWorld, BPMN, ProcessWorldAlthough labelled “The business value of BPM”, this is really a webinar on BPM standards as a wrap-up of the recent OMG BPM Think Tank, which I blogged extensively about. Since I was at the Think Tank and have a lot of opinions on the subject of BPM standards, I’ll be presenting at this webinar [...]
Also tagged BPMN, BPMThinkTankI’m tuned into an ebizQ webinar on SOA standards, News Break: The First Standards-Based SOA Forum to Manage and Govern Your SOA. This link should be good for replay within a couple of hours after the webinar, or within a couple of days if you want the full version with the live Q&A. By the [...]
Also tagged BPMNThe Spring OMG newsletter is available online (direct link to PDF) with a 2-page article “OMG and Service-Oriented Architecture”: In essence, SOA is an architectural approach that seeks to align business processes with service protocols and the underlying software components and legacy applications that implement them. So far, so good. Then they go on to [...]
Also tagged BPMN, BPMThinkTankSince I only finished posting about yesterday’s sessions at the end of this morning, I decided to just do a final conference wrapup instead of separate wrapups for yesterday and today. In general, the BPM Think Tank was great, and I’ll definitely attend again in the future. I learned a lot about some of the [...]
Also tagged BPMN, BPMThinkTankThis afternoon, I attended technology roundtable on XPDL led by Keith Swenson. Keith went around the table and asked how we (or our customers) are modelling processes now. The biggest faction by far use Visio, but PowerPoint (!), UML activity diagrams (using the IBM/Rational tools) and proprietary/internal tools specific to an industry were also mentioned. [...]
Also tagged BPMN, BPMThinkTankI finished yesterday afternoon by attending a technology roundable on BPEL led by John Evdemon. There was a lot of ground covered there that I had heard in his workshop on Day 1 and the panel earlier yesterday that I won’t repeat here, so just a few brief notes. There are some things that can [...]
Also tagged BPMN, BPMThinkTankWe finished Wednesday morning with a panel on the business value of process standards, moderated by Connie Moore of Forrester, with panelists Richard Soley of OMG, Keith Swenson of Fujitsu and John Evdemon of Microsoft representing the BPMN-XPDL-BPEL value chain. I’m now on the search for the Holy Grail of BPM standards: what’s going to [...]
Also tagged BPMN, BPMThinkTankI’m now in the final session of the day, with John Evdemon talking about BPEL. He’s dealing with a number of interesting points, such as name (WS-BPEL versus BPEL versus BPEL4WS), pronunciation (he doesn’t care, as long as you use it), the lack of graphical notation, and orchestration versus choreography. I particularly like his description [...]
Also tagged BPMN, BPMThinkTankI’m in Fred Cummins’ BPDM workshop, where his stated goal is to provide a general understanding of BPDM, engage us in a discussion of the requirements, and discuss the implications of BPDM to enterprise agility. Fred’s an EDS fellow who writes occasionally on the EDS Next Big Thing blog. BPMN and BPDM are both standards [...]
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