Today, at BEAWorld Prague, we announced AquaLogicBPM 5.7. Read the press release for all of the details. It's actually been available on the download site for a couple of days, but BEAWorld Prague is the official launch event.

I don't want to repeat the laundry list of features from the press release, but there are really two core themes. The first is localization, especially Asian localization as I've mentioned before. The second is alignment with BEA and BEA's position as the SOA market leader. This theme is vary broad: including both technical features (like UDDI integration), functional additions (like process librarians and templates), as well as marketing/branding updates (BEA licensing and branding).

Anyway, I've been using ALBPM 5.7 for a little while now and I'm happy that the rest of the world is going to get to use it too.

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I've been remiss in posting for a while; I'm still trying to get caught up from my Asia trip. More late this week but here's a quick post to get started.

Microsoft Visio has two formats it can use to store diagrams. A proprietary format (VSD) and a relatively new XML based format (VisioXML). Because VisioXML format is much more open it is the format required by many tools that can import from Visio. This includes many BPM tools (including BEA AquaLogicBPM) that can import from Visio. It also includes many other diagramming tools such as OmniGraffle Pro, a diagramming tool I use on my Mac.

Unfortunately, because the proprietary VSD format is still the default format in Visio, most people are still not using VisioXML. When I receive a Visio file attachment from a customer, it's almost always in the proprietary format. This usually means I have to track down a PC and a copy of Visio to convert the file.

However, I've found an online service that will convert from VSD to VisioXML. So if you are using AquaLogicBPM Studio and need to import a VSD, you can use this site to convert the VSD to the needed VisioXML format.

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