January 2007 Archives

BPM and Security: Inextricably Intertwined

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By Michael Dortch on January 31, 2007 5:02 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
So I've gotten my first spam blog comment, and it reminded me that I've been thinking a lot lately about the connections between BPM and security. In a lot of ways, security is one of the most process-intensive IT-related areas... Read More..
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Business Process Definition: The Ultimate "First Mile" BPM Problem?

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By Michael Dortch on January 30, 2007 8:19 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
I've been writing a lot here recently about various approaches to capturing information that can and should drive business process definition and refinement. And there's a lot of interesting stuff in the special SAP Business Process Expert (BPX) Community section... Read More..
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HP + SAP = BPM + SOA?

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By Michael Dortch on January 30, 2007 7:36 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and SAP AG announced a broadening/deepening/expansion of their alliance that may or may not have implications for BPM pursuers and practitioners. As covered by ebizQ, the companies announced that HP will offer a range of new and... Read More..
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Unstructured Data: Yet Another "First Mile" Challenge to Effective BPM

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By Michael Dortch on January 29, 2007 5:42 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Unstructured Data: Yet Another "First Mile" Challenge to Effective BPM OK, this is likely my last Lotusphere-inspired rant for this year, for those of you who have been waiting for me to stop harping on that event. However, I did... Read More..
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Process-Enabled Electronic Forms: Another "Form" of Invisible, Human-Centric BPM?

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By Michael Dortch on January 26, 2007 2:27 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Another "first mile" stumbling block in the path towards effective, human-centric BPM (and/or business knowledge management or BKM) is capture of information in ways that are easily usable by IT systems, yet easily used by humans. In this context, the... Read More..
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Can "Many Eyes" Improve Business Processes?

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By Michael Dortch on January 25, 2007 6:09 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
I've been reading some of the more recent postings in James Taylor's Decision Management blog here on ebizQ, and I find his insights refreshingly business- and human-focused and to the point. You might find them so as well. So while... Read More..
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IBM, Microsoft, and BPM-Enabled Applications: This COULD Be Going SO Much Better...

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By Michael Dortch on January 23, 2007 3:22 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
OK, let's review. One way to make traditional BPM "disappear" is for BPM-enabled applications and services to appear and proliferate. This means vendors need to help to enable the easy construction, deployment, management, and revision of such applications, by independent... Read More..
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Human-Centric, IT-Powered, Process-Driven Collaboration: IBM Gets It (I Think)

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By Michael Dortch on January 22, 2007 6:18 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
"While it pains me to endorse the 'evil empire,' human-centric BPM technologies that leverage Microsoft Office really do have a leg up. People use Excel and Word. What's strange is that Microsoft itself doesn't own a human-centric BPM software [offering]."... Read More..
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BPM and IT-Empowered Collaboration: Two Great Things that Go Great Together

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By Michael Dortch on January 21, 2007 8:38 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
So Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks announced some slightly more specific offerings and plans regarding their Innovative Communications Alliance, a shared vision of unified enterprise communications. Of course, it will be at least 2008 before we see any actual products... Read More..
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The "State of the Union Address" I'D Like to See

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By Michael Dortch on January 21, 2007 11:17 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
The "State of the Union Address" I'D Like to See In light of upcoming events… Announcer: "Ladies and gentlemen, the leader of the free world's most influential software company, Bill Gates of Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Gates?" Bill: "Thank you. fellow... Read More..
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Beyond BPM: Business Knowledge Management?

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By Michael Dortch on January 19, 2007 7:01 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
I've been thinking a lot more about the issues raised in my posting on "business knowledge management" ("BKM"), "Why Workflow Doesn't HAVE to Suck," especially in response to a comment the posting received. That comment said that anyone seeking BKM... Read More..
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The (Near-Term) Future: Invisible, Built-in BPM?

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By Michael Dortch on January 17, 2007 2:10 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
I had an English teacher in high school who was particularly fond of the phrase "concretizing the abstraction." Say what you want about my formative years, but the underlying concept and goal seemed then and seems now crystal clear: make... Read More..
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BPM: Best Possible Messages (and Metrics)

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By Michael Dortch on January 15, 2007 7:38 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Breaking BPM news: Business intelligence (BI) solution provider Business Objects SA and BPM solution provider Savvion, Inc. announced a strategic alliance intended to integrate their respective technologies and to help enterprises integrate their BI and BPM efforts. This is yet... Read More..
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Why Workflow Doesn't HAVE to Suck

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By Michael Dortch on January 12, 2007 5:57 PM 2 Vote 0 Votes
Sometimes, the best things are right in front of your face -- or in my case at this Web site, just under and to the right of it... One of the best things I've read recently related to BPM is... Read More..
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BPM and Open Source: A Match Made in Heaven -- Or Not...

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By Michael Dortch on January 11, 2007 1:01 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
Aside from BPM, there are few subjects that generate as much angst, confusion, debate, and posturing in the enterprise as the role of open source solutions. Yesterday, a consulting and systems integration company introduced something that could help with both... Read More..
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BPM: Be Prepared to Market!

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By Michael Dortch on January 10, 2007 5:11 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Lots of news this week -- Pegasystems Inc.'s update of its SmartBPM Suite, and webMethods, Inc.'s Fabric version 7.0, among other items covered at the ebizQ site. But I think the news of the greatest immediate value to those of... Read More..
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BPM: Beginning Proactive Messaging

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By Michael Dortch on January 9, 2007 11:42 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
As you may recall from my inaugural outing in this space, I believe (as do my RFG analyst colleagues and most of our user clients) that communication -- talking to all involved early and often -- is critical to success... Read More..
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BPM in 2007: Business Perfomance Maximizer or Big Political Mess?

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By ebizQ on January 6, 2007 7:49 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
Greetings, and welcome. This blog is intended to stimulate thought, discussion, and maybe even action, in this forum and among you and your colleagues at work. In my three decades of IT-watching, I've learned that no one has a monopoly... Read More..
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