BPM in Action: October 2008 Archives

In Modeling Business Processes, Stay away from the Waterfall

By Dennis Byron on October 31, 2008 8:39 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

If there was any doubt in your mind, riding a barrel over Niagara and using a waterfall method of development are both bad ideas. Statistics can be brought to bear to convince you in both cases although technology can also... Read More..

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BPM VIEWPOINT: What New AIIM Study Says about BPM

By Dennis Byron on October 29, 2008 9:56 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

Last week I posted news about a newly released AIIM study. It says there is a lot of ground to make up in enterprises to take maximum advantage of business process management (BPM) concepts. The survey said only 3% of... Read More..

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Microsoft Execs Silent on Business Process Management at PDC

By Dennis Byron on October 28, 2008 12:21 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

If you didn’t hear much about business process management (BPM) during Microsoft’s 2008 Professional Developer Conference (PDC) keynotes, you were listening closely. Part of the reason is that Microsoft runs separate events for business process analysts. Part of the reason... Read More..

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With BPM, Sharing Is Where the Payoff Comes

By Dennis Byron on October 23, 2008 8:01 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Over at MSDN, Mike Walker of Microsoft writes about IBM findings that cultural changes are a big impediment to any kind of information technology (IT) implementation. (I “met” Mike when I was preparing this case study on Microsoft in Financial... Read More..

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BPM VIEWPOINT: The IBM Perspective on Event Processing in BPM

By Dennis Byron on October 22, 2008 9:56 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

At the suggestion of Brenda Michelson I spent some time listening to a podcast by Ed Lynch of IBM prepared for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Consortium meeting in June 2008. You can download it here. I have written how... Read More..

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Pega Founder’s Keyword in Business Process Management: Roles

By Dennis Byron on October 21, 2008 8:15 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Back in August I wrote about Lombardi Software president Phil Gilbert’s view on what it takes to make software business process management (BPM) software. I heard Alan Trefler, Pegasystems CEO and founder, weigh in with another view at the October... Read More..

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BPM in BPO: What Business Process Management Tools Are Your Outsourcers Using

By Dennis Byron on October 17, 2008 7:49 AM 2 0 Vote 0 Votes

Don’t mix up business process outsourcing (BPO) and business process management (BPM). I posted recently asking if anyone can identify the beginnings of the term business process management (BPM). More to come on that subject. However in the process of... Read More..

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Who first used the term "business process management?"

By Dennis Byron on October 16, 2008 8:23 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Without naming names, I've come across a couple of folks recently who said they were the first to use the term "business process management (BPM)." But while everyone credits MIT professor Michael Hammer for inventing the term "business process re-engineering... Read More..

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BPM VIEWPOINT: BPM Products Consolidate Functionality

By Dennis Byron on October 15, 2008 6:16 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

Recent IT Investment Research (see link to right) work found increasing agreement among all types of BPM software suppliers, no matter what their heritage (see Table): Business process management (BPM) needs to automate all types of business processes. Arbitrary distinctions... Read More..

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New IBM Business Process Management Services Hidden under the SOA Basket

By Dennis Byron on October 9, 2008 8:20 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

IBM mixes the terms services oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) so regularly that I tend to miss some of its more interesting BPM announcements because they are buried inside IBM’s SOA propaganda. • To me SOA is... Read More..

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BPM VIEWPOINT: Bad Economic Times Will Not Change the BPM/SOA Evolution

By Dennis Byron on October 8, 2008 3:14 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

The upcoming ebizQ "SOA in Action" Virtual Conference (sign up here) got me thinking about the interrelationship between business process management (BPM) and services oriented architecture (SOA). More accurately it got me thinking whether that relationship and all the related... Read More..

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Pegasystems new BPM Suite: What's SaaS Got to Do with It?

By Dennis Byron on October 6, 2008 5:25 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

On October 2, 2008 Pegasystems announced a version of its suite it calls “BPM Platform as a Service (PaaS).” I caught up with the company’s development and marketing guys to better understand what it was all about. The line in... Read More..

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Calling for input on Government BPM software

By Dennis Byron on October 1, 2008 7:39 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

It may not be obvious but we have launched a monthly series of industry-specific business process management (BPM) articles highlighting the different BPM software approaches taken in different industries and hopefully highlighting what real users are doing. What's hot, what's... Read More..

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