August 2008 Archives

Talking to... Mark Taber at Active Endpoints

By Dennis Byron on August 24, 2008 4:37 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Download file Active Endpoints is a company that crosses my research and analysis path from multiple directions: open source, business process management (BPM), and standards (see link to IT Investment Research over there on the right somewhere). The company... Read More..

Categories: BPM Podcast, Podcast

What does it take to make software BPM?

By Dennis Byron on August 15, 2008 7:00 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

In a recent blog post here on ebizQ, I quoted Phil Gilbert of Lombardi and his prediction that major changes were coming in business process management (BPM). Buried in his quote about change (repeated here) is an interesting definition of... Read More..

Categories: BPM

Let me know if your BPM software helps meet governance requirements!

By Dennis Byron on August 11, 2008 10:49 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

A recent article I did for IT Business Edge about governance, risk and compliance (GRC) got me asking the question, what is the role of business process management (BPM) in governance? Coincidentally, this month ebizQ is looking for BPM software... Read More..

Categories: BPM

Don't forget the Microsoft BPM ecosystem, another parallel universe

By Dennis Byron on August 6, 2008 8:27 AM 2 Vote 0 Votes

The August 5, 2008 announcement by Ultimus of its latest version--8.1--reminds me not to forget that that there is a pretty strong parallel universe of Microsoft Windows business process management (BPM) users out there. They tend to get overshadowed both... Read More..

Categories: BPM

UK-based Autonomy offers a Rocky Mountain high of BPM capabilities

By Dennis Byron on August 4, 2008 5:36 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

An Autonomy press release crossed the wires on August 4, 2008 reminding me of an business process management (BPM) software supplier that does not get the notice it deserves in North America despite strong North American Rocky Mountain roots. Clearly... Read More..

Categories: BPM

Adobe BPM does not mean you're put in a .pdf box

By Dennis Byron on August 1, 2008 3:05 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

After the June 17, 2008 announcement that it was building the Alfresco open source content management software into its LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, I asked Adobe for an update on its business process management (BPM) capabilities. “Adobe? BPM?” you say. Yes,... Read More..

Categories: BPM

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Dennis Byron

Dennis Byron is an analyst with ebizQ, focusing the Business Process Management (BPM) value proposition.

He is also ebizQ Community Manager and his blog entries span the topics of BPM in the Real World, Human-centric BPM, Straight-through BPM, BPM Suites and Components, as well as Intelligent Process Automation. . Dennis is also a speaker and moderator on ebizQ programming relating to Open Source concepts, and blogs occassionally on Open Source Up the Stack.

Dennis Byron is also the principal of IT Investment Research. View more

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