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BPMN
Survey on BPMN
You may have seen this announced on other BPM blogs, but there’s currently a survey out on the use of, and satisfaction with, BPMN by process modellers. This is part of a PhD research project by Jan Recker at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia (a city that I remember fondly, in spite [...]
TUCON: Tom Laffey and Matt Quinn
Last 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 [...]
BPMN poster and templates
There’s a public domain BPMN poster and set of Visio templates on SourceForge for free download. Via BPM.com.
A Quick Peek at Cordys BPM
A month ago, I had a chance for a comprehensive demo of the Cordys BPMS via Webex, and I saw them briefly at the Gartner show last week. Their suite is of particular interest to me because the entire process life cycle of modelling, execution and monitoring is completely browser-based. I’ve been pushing browser-based process [...]
The Incredible BPMN
Last year, I developed a course on process standards for FileNet (now IBM) that they use to train their sales teams and partners. It included a bit on BPMN, among other standards, because FileNet will soon be launching an ability to model in BPMN through an integration with Visio. Frighteningly, their recent press release says [...]
ProcessWorld Day 1: Keynote with Prof. Scheer
The 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 [...]
BPMN-XPDL-BPEL value chain revisited
Right after I dissed the new for-pay incarnation of Business Integration Journal Business Transformation and Innovation, it turns out that I’m mentioned in an article in the November/December issue. For the past 12 to 18 months, there has been growing interest and discussion surrounding BPMN, XPDL and BPEL. What has begun to take form is [...]
TIBCO freeing up Business Studio
I had a briefing with Jeff Kristick from TIBCO last week about their announcements today, and also had a demo of the new 1.1 release of the TIBCO Business Studio tool. The big news is that Business Studio, the modeling, management and simulation environment, is now available at no cost — just download it from [...]
Modeling Processes in a Browser with Appian
For those BPM vendors out there who say that you can’t create a fully-featured browser-based process modeling tool: YOU’RE WRONG. Appian does it, they do it well, and if you don’t get moving on this soon, they’ll kick your butt. I was going to just stop there, but that would be mean, so I’ll continue [...]
OMG Infopalooza
The OMG’s fall newsletter is out (although as my Aussie friends remind me, it’s spring down there), including notice of their technical meeting in DC on December 4-8. This will include a session by OMG BPMI on “Improving Business Process Management using a Maturity Model Framework”: “The OMG BPMI Steering Committee has been developing a [...]
Today’s webinar: The Business Value of BPM
Great webinar on the business value of BPM and BPM standards today on ebizQ, and I’m not just saying that because I’m one of the speakers. The full replay should be available tomorrow at the same link. If you attended the live seminar today, there was a technical glitch just before the Q&A where we [...]
OMG vendor directories
OMG now has a set of directories of vendors that offer products and services related to OMG standards, including BPM (because of BPMN and other emerging standards). It’s free to have your company listed here, even if you’re not an OMG member.
BPMN and XPDL illustrated
If you’re not using a BPM modelling product that outputs to XPDL and want to get an idea of what it actually looks like, some of the vendors are posting samples of their BPMN/XPDL for interoperability testing on the WfMC forum (you may need to be a member to see the posts, but it’s free). [...]
Webinar: the business value of BPM standards
Although 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 [...]
Bluespring webinar
True to my expectations from our earlier interaction, I received an email today from Bluepring: As well as reminding me about the webinar today, it gave me a link to the in-flight process, which now showed that the reminder had been sent. Unfortunately, a second (manual ) email was required to send out the Microsoft [...]
Process Analysis Models
Also from BPTrends, today’s Email Advisor has an article on Alternative Process Analysis Models (direct link to PDF): There are a number of process analysis models that are designed to focus on more complex human interactions. One example is the RAD approach of Oulds and Harrison-Broninski and another is the Closed-Loop Business Interaction Model of [...]
Webinar on SOA standards and CentraSite
I’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 [...]
Savvion’s ProcessXChange
I had a chance late last week to talk to Shawn Price (CEO) and Pat Morrissey (SVP Marketing) of Savvion about the news that they’re releasing this week. It’s always flattering to hear the CEO of a BPM vendor start a sentence with “Having read your blog…”, and there’s some interesting things that they’re announcing [...]
Show me your process models!
I had a couple of emails recently from people looking for public-domain process models, related but slightly different. The first was looking for generic process models for those processes that are the same in most businesses: I am trying to convince [a small healthcare company] that their business is no different than many other service [...]
