Derek Miers called my attention over the weekend to two posts from the SOA blogosphere suggesting “bad blood” between BPM and SOA, framing it as the latest proxy war in an age-old struggle between business and IT. I suppose Derek, who doesn’t blog himself (yet), wanted me to point out how ridiculous this is (or at least [...]
My previous post just hit the low points. Sandy has a more complete writeup of the day's activities, which is mostly accurate. Kinda long, though, Sandy. Didn't have time to fin
Nothing pegs my BS meter like a BPM keynoter waxing poetic about pi-calculus, especially to an auditorium full of business analysts. But now it looks like the pi guys have the last laugh. I noticed Technorati's #2 hottest new book on Amazon is, you got it, "The Pi Calculus," with 386 new links in the last 48 [...]
If you're new to BPM and want to better understand the technology, I'm doing an all-day training session in San Francisco on June 28, 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.
One of the biggest changes to the BPM equation in the past year has been the intertwining of process and business rules. For a long time BPM and business rule management (BRM) did just fine as separate technologies blissfully ignorant of each other, but today users are finding it harder and harder to define the [...]
I'm off now to do a keynote for Unisys on "The Future of Content and Process Management" at their conference center at St-Paul-de-Vence, outside of Nice. They run their own 5-star hotel in the grand French style for their best customers. I've been there before, and this is really the best gig going for an [...]
Sandy Kemsley wrote a note recently commending the upcoming BPM Think Tank in DC May 23-25, and I want to second that emotion. It's put on by OMG, who absorbed BPMI.org in 2005. If last year's version is any indication, this is the one event where those who really "get" BPM can mingle and argue [...]
James Taylor's blog on ebizq points to another piece on that site which asserts not only, as James paraphrases, that BPM and SOA are no "silver bullet" for the business-IT alignment problem, but that they are at their core no different from all previous attempts to bridge the business-IT gap. Zygmunt Jackowski, PhD, who describes [...]
I received an interesting email yesterday re my BPM 2.0 manifesto from a professed "process analyst" I know: Another good one, Bruce? I'd quibble only about the role defs for "business analyst" (a common misnomer in vogue in IT today that should be titled "requirements analyst" since they don't really analyze the business or assist the [...]
SearchOracle.com discusses a recent Forrester report that claims SAP NetWeaver is winning the middleware battle against Oracle Fusion. The logic isn't fully revealed in the story, but the key seems to be more about the strength of those companies' enterprise applications and solution partners than the technical merits of the middleware itself. Forrester's Ray Wang, [...]