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- SAP BPM - business fail?
- On Sunday I sat through a day of SAP sponsored discussions around business process management as part of the company's ramp up to Sapphire08. In and among the presentations, Ginger Gatling, SAP NetWeaver BPM product manager introduced the packed room to Galaxy - aka SAP's NetWeaver Business Process Management environment....
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- 'Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA; give them BPM'
- 'Give businesspeople a reason to care about SOA; give them BPM'That's what I have been saying all alongI wrote a post in response to this article. I agree that BPM is key to SOA initiatives.http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/without-bpm-soa-is-sol-22704Business people will never care about SOAIt shouldn't be any surprise that business folks get...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- BPEL4People advances toward the mainstream
- BPEL Business Process Execution Language is too machine-oriented, catering to applications talking to other applications, they say. Most business processes need the human touch somewhere along the line. Do people need BPEL4People? Consider these un-automatable scenarios: A process may need an executive's approval to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- FlexiteBPMS (exe)
- Flexite is a powerful BPMS Business Process Management Suite and a process-oriented document management system, created to design, automate and improve business processes. Included in the package is a unique method and methodology, which gives the business side full control of the design, deployment and improvement of their own business...
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- How to sell SOA: business first, technology later
- Everyone agrees that SOA is, or needs to be, embedded in the business. However, as discussed in recent posts, it is viewed mainly as an IT project. SOA often gets sold as a technology fix, but shouldn't it be sold as a business enabler? Mike "Mad Geek...
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- A hundred million miracles
- This post is something of an apology. And an explanation of the picture at right. While I've been writing about IBM and Microsoft, about the the biggest trees in the open source forest, thousands of little shoots have been growing, ignored. Zoho has been...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- The Productivity Paradigm-Shift: Enabling the Next Wave of Business Efficiency Through Collaborative Business Process Management
- Business Process Management BPM technologies represent a significant step forward in optimizing business performance. BPM Software suites BPMS provide an integrated set of tools to model, design, simulate and deploy processes and process applications, delivering greater degrees of process management maturity and delivery. BPMS provide a "Closed loop" system for...
- White papers 2007-05-24
- FlexiteDMS (exe)
- FlexiteDMS is a process orientated document management and enterprise content management system of the third generation. Developed for important documents included in SOX, ITIL, ISO, HACCP, brochures, technical documentation and agreements and offering unmatched search and presentation functionality. Leaving paper and folder-and-format based systems behind, FlexiteDMS offers database based, web...
- Software downloads 2007-03-13
- SOA and BPM's acronym-challenged offspring
- SearchWebServices reports that the analysts at Forrester Research say the SOA and business process management BPM markets are becoming one. Forrester has christened the resulting new product category as "integration-centric business process management suites," or IC-BPMS. IC-BPMS? That sounds more like the missile systems that the United States and USSR...
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Intalio makes disingenuous claim that it has released code as open source
- I just received a press release from Intalio who is engaging in what Id consider to be more slight of hand when it comes to vendors claiming that theyve released code under an open source license when that isnt the case, at least according to the people who have written...
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Making use of the world-wide services cornucopia
- With heavy, rigid, and too technical methods for weaving together systems and processes seemingly on their way out, it's sometimes easy to forget there are many inherent compexities in connecting systems to each other. But one of the promising concepts of Web 2.0 is the idea...
- Blog posts 2006-02-11
- IBM WebSphere BPM Suite
- IBM occupies a unique spot in the BPMS vendor landscape: It is the first (and, so far, only) infrastructure software supplier to offer a complete BPMS - supporting the end-to-end lifecycle from analytical modeling to performance management and optimization - based entirely on Service-Oriented Architecture SOA. IBM has a long...
- White papers 2005-10-24
- Beyond BPM: Runtime SOA
- Beyond BPM: Runtime SOABusiness "Nirvana"I agree with Ron. SOA is indeed one step forward in the abstraction of the process layer from the implementation layer.Basically, we should be able to layer business processes over the constituent application modules that comprise these business processes. The processes themselves could comprise and be...
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
- Revolutionary purge?
- SOA is "one of those perfectly mind-numbing expressions that defies even a modicum of consistent definition, sounds important, and gives everyone the freedom to do it 'their way," argues BPM Group chief analyst Terry Schurter. "What an incredible waste of time, money and energy." Ouch...Recognizing that he is far out...
- Blog posts 2005-02-08
- BPMN and Business Process Management - An Introduction to the New Business Process Modeling Standard
- This paper provides an in-depth introduction to the new BPMN standard, illustrating how it is used to model business processes and web services. The paper also provides greater detail on how BPMN fits within BPM, BPEL?s, BPMS?s, UML and other new industry standards and initiatives described above. BPMN provides a...
- White papers 2004-01-21
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