Last week I had the chance to stop by Pegasystems in Cambridge for a briefing. As usual, I came away impressed with what they had to show. Pega is an anomaly in the BPM market. They always win the BPMS MQs and Waves, but 70% of their systems are sold to people who did not [...]
In the past couple years TIBCO kind of dropped off my BPMS radar screen. They don't put a lot into marketing, and in BPM I don't think they had that much to say anyway. Last week I got a briefing on the new ActiveMatrix BPM, and my impression is TIBCO is finally back as a [...]
Today, Oracle officially announced Oracle BPM Suite 11g. To my knowledge, Oracle BPM Suite 11g is the first and only executable BPMN 2.0-based BPMS available today. I've had a chance to try it out, and it is really impressive. The product provides a united runtime environment for both BPEL and native BPMN 2.0, uniting two [...]
Ismael Ghalimi of Intalio is still a young man but one of the founding fathers of modern BPM. Maybe the founding father. Anyway, today he briefed me on what he says he was aiming for all along, a project called Helium. It's BPM, it's a database application builder, it's CRM and case management, document management, [...]
Most of the changes between BPMN 1.2 and BPMN 2.0 have to do with extending it from a diagramming notation to a language for executable process design. Both my book BPMN Method and Style and the training that goes along with it deal with non-executable models, what I call Levels 1 and 2. Level 1 [...]
Scott Francis takes me to task a bit for not completely buying IBM's public mass ingestion of the Lombardi Kool-Aid in Las Vegas a couple weeks back. I have to admit, however, that I did come away from the event with a different notion of how Lombardi will ultimately be incorporated into the WebSphere BPM [...]
Not a lot of BPM news out of IBM at Impact this week. The most surprising thing for me about it is how thoroughly Lombardi - acquired just a few months ago - has enthralled the WebSphere executives. At the opening keynote, WebSphere GM Craig Heyman called Lombardi Teamworks, rebranded IBM WebSphere BPM Lombardi Edition, [...]
I want to call your attention to three recent white papers I've written and posted on the site. They are all free downloads available to anyone registered on BPMS Watch. All three deal with the new generation of tools available to help users get started in BPM and bridge the once-formidable divide between business process [...]
A year ago around this time IBM launched BPM BlueWorks, a collaborative BPM learning environment in the cloud where users could read about BPM, set up their own private workspaces, and use free IBM tools for "process discovery." Since then it has pretty much stayed below the radar, but with the recent introduction of a [...]
It's safe to say that despite the proliferation of real BPMN tools, the majority of BPMN-like process diagrams that exist in the world have been created in Microsoft Visio. For me, Visio - by itself - was always just a "drawing" tool, not a real modeling tool. Even if you could find a BPMN stencil [...]