Bpms

Teamworks 7 BPMS Report

Lombardi's Teamworks 7 adds a wealth of features tosupport massive reuse of process artifacts across multiple projects in various stages of development and maintenance. My latest BPMS Report takes a close look at Lombardi's brand new offering.

Case Management White Paper

I just finished a white paper on case management for Global 360, whose Case360 product comes the closest to my own view of what case management is all about. Click here to download the report. If you are interested in that topic, you might want to subscribe to my BPMN Case Management site, www.bpmncase.com.

IBM's 'Dynamic' BPM Edition

In IBM's BPM Suite, the default or foundational offering on the WebSphere side is something called WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition. Here the term 'dynamic process' isn't just the usual marketing doublespeak, but a fundamentally different way of modeling and executing processes, particularly customer-facing ones. It refers to the myriad of process variations that result from differences in the type of customer, channel of contact, date, time, and location, as well as details of the instance itself, such as the total value of an order, or special items in it.

Guest Passes for BPMInstitute New York

I will be chairing an all new BPMS Track at BPMInstitute.org's upcoming BPM Conference in New York City at The Roosevelt Hotel (November 5-6). This track analyzes the latest generation of BPM Suites, and features an extended panel on November 5 in which leading vendors show how their offerings address key topics such as business-IT alignment, agility and time to value, end user experience, and optimizing business performance. We did this in San Francisco and it worked very well.

Guest Passes Available to Brainstorm/BPMInstitute San Francisco

In addition to my 2-day class on Process Modeling with BPMN, I will be chairing an all new BPMS Track at BPMInstitute.org's upcoming BPM Conference in San Francisco (September 30-October 1). This new track is dedicated to matching BPM technology to your specific requirements and features, and features in-depth comparison of BPM Suite offerings. As a benefit of my participation, I have secured a limited number of Guest Passes* for BPMS Watch readers to attend on September 30, as well as a discounted rate of only $895* to attend both days (Sept 30-Oct 1) of the BPM Conference.

Adobe Updates BPM

Did you know Adobe had a BPMS? Most people don't, even though with over 5000 customers they could be considered a major player. One reason people don't know about Adobe and BPM is that the company doesn't talk about it in the usual way. In fact, it treats the normal catalog of BPMS features and functions, like workflow and integration adapters, as commodities. For example, Adobe includes process modeling and a workflow engine inside every copy of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, although to get full human task support you need to get the Process Management ES component as well.

Three Cool Things About Pega

Last week I got an in-depth briefing from Pegasystems. I wrote a report on their SmartBPM Suite v4.2 in the 2006 BPMS Report Series, but they've made some subtle tweaks to the product in v5.1. More than that, they've changed the way they talk about it, which for me helps tremendously in thinking about Pega in context of other BPMS offerings. And I came away quite impressed.

If you remember the old Pega, it was always about rules and object-oriented design. Everything was a rule -- routing, integration, user interface... in addition to actual business rules. Plus they would go on forever about object inheritance, polymorphism, and all that yucky stuff. Now it's about ease of development, managing complexity, and solution value out of the box. Can I dig that? Yes I can.

Oracle Enters BPM Arena With ARIS Deal

You gotta love the press release: "Oracle?s BPM product portfolio, which now includes IDS Scheer?s ARIS Platform, will support..." Before today's announcement that it was OEMing parts of ARIS, Oracle to my knowledge did not offer a BPM product portfolio. Sure, they had an SOA Suite that included BPEL Process Manager and BPEL Designer - both excellent products - but the company never mustered the courage to say, "We understand what BPM is and we have a BPM suite.

BPMS Tutorial in DC

If you?re new to BPM and want to better understand the technology, I?m doing an all-day tutorial session in DC (Reston VA, actually) on September 20, in parallel with the Brainstorm BPM/SOA Conference. The training is sponsored by BPM Institute and counts toward their BPM certification credential. Click here for more information.

Expanding the 2006 BPMS Report

I am expanding my 2006 BPMS Report series, which is available for free from BPM Institute. Over 1500 copies have been downloaded to date. Each report contains a 20-25 page walkthrough of a leading BPMS, all using the same analytical framework and report outline, and products are rated as to their strengths in several distinct process types or use cases. The first round, published last November, covered Adobe, Fuego (now BEA), Global 360, IBM, Pegasystems, Savvion, and Vitria.