Next week at Gartner BPM, Appian will take the wraps off Appian Anywhere, a hosted subscription-based version of Appian Enterprise. Appian Anywhere includes the full BPM suite, and leverages Appian's ability to host the entire environment - design tools, engine, object persistence, rule engine, portal, etc. - on the web. Initially the systems will reside [...]
The coolest thing I saw at Process World was definitely ARIS Process Performance Manager (PPM), specifically its ability to autogenerate the as-is model from instrumenting the backend systems that perform its activities. IDS CTO Wolfram Jost mentioned this in his keynote, and there were a number of comments about it in my Almost Live… post [...]
It seems the smartest guys in the room, BPM-wise, have suddenly discovered content management. Or, more accurately, have begun to imagine what an intersection between the two might possibly look like… as if that were almost possible. Ismael tosses out three candidates: 1. Manage the lifecycle of content objects in CM, and just store the links [...]
I recently received an email from Danny Greefhorst of the Netherlands, who says in relation to my 2006 BPMS Report series: “your definition of case management seems to be very document-centric and to be quite different from interpretations I have seen in other places.” He attaches a couple articles, also of Dutch origin. The note [...]
If you've heard about BAM but aren't exactly sure what it is, tune into my webcast on Thursday January 11 at 10am PT/1pm ET. The registration link is here. The sponsor is EMC, and after my (vendor-neutral) introduction to the benefits of BAM and how it works, EMC will demo its ProActivity BAM now integrated with [...]
The previous discussion leads naturally into simulation use case 3, which deals with Activity Based Costing. A number of users have asked me if simulation provided activity based costing, and I always said yes, since I assumed it could. But it’s not built into the tools at all. This turned out to be a really interesting part of [...]
Continuing my recent post re simulation analysis and BPMN… (Since then I’ve finished my BPMN training materials, including simulation analysis, and it’s now in beta… almost ready to go! Also since that post, the histogram of costs and times is now out of the box. I told ITP Commerce how I did it and they [...]
webMethods, who at the beginning of this year couldn't even break into the BPM analysts' magic circle/wave/whatever, ends 2006 taking top honors in the Forrester Wave for Integration Centric BPM. For you non-subscribers, you can get the report from the webMethods website. webMethods has put a lot into its new version of the offering, part [...]
A couple months ago I posted about the deficient simulation capabilities of most process modeling tools. More recently I’ve been working with ITP Commerce – the tool provider for my upcoming BPMN training – on enhancing their simulation features to address the use cases that figure most prominently in process analysis. It’s been a really [...]
Last week an item came up on ComputerWire called “Lombardi Gears Up for IPO.” Wow, did I like doze off and somehow wake up back in 1998? OK, revenue is up 200% over 2005, but Dataquest reports 2005 software revenue at $18 Million, so since when do $50 Million software companies do IPOs? Maybe that [...]