August 2006 Archives

I've posted previously about Savvion's free Process Modeler, and yesterday they announced that there have already been 55,000 downloads of it. Of course, I'm sure that some of those downloads are like mine, still waiting to be really taken for... Read More..

I've added an Upcoming.org event list for the BPMG Process 2006 conference. If you're going to attend, add yourself to the list.... Read More..

BPMN Diagrams - Never Too Late For An Intermediate Timer Event -Tyner Blain (tags: bpmn)... Read More..

I've been negligent in my blogging lately, in part because the weather in Toronto has been absolutely beautiful -- our summers are short enough that you really have to get out there and enjoy it while you can -- and in... Read More..

BPMN Diagrams - Wait For An Intermediate Timer Event -Tyner Blain (tags: bpmn)... Read More..

How to Present to Investors Not just for presenting to investors, a good set of general guidelines for giving a short demo/presentation to any audience. (tags: business presentation)... Read More..

BPMN Diagrams - Boundary Intermediate Message Events -Tyner Blain (tags: bpmn)... Read More..

BPMN Diagrams - Flowing Intermediate Message Events -Tyner Blain (tags: bpmn)... Read More..

CIO Blogs - The Starting Point for SOA | "The business value of EA only becomes truly clear (beyond simply reducing costs in the IT infrastructure) when you begin to think of SOA as a strategy for implementing EA."... Read More..

IEEE Spectrum: The Next Hype Cycle Gartner's 2006 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle states that Web 2.0, mashups, location-aware software, and sensor mesh networking will lead the way in the next generation of software tools. (tags: mashups web2.0)... Read More..

I've been a member of IEEE for over 20 years, and browse the periodicals that arrive at my door monthly, but have just become aware of the content that they offer to members and non-members on Spectrum Online. I've downloaded... Read More..

BPMN Diagrams - Undefined Intermediate Events -Tyner Blain (tags: bpmn) Welcome to Writely Now available for general use (tags: web2.0 productivity)... Read More..

A follow-on to last May's conference, BPM 2005, is Process 2006. I'll be headed to London for the conference next month, but this year I'll be speaking on the impact of Web 2.0 and social networking on BPM: mashups, tagging... Read More..

lazytom's FeedJumbler A web tool for splicing feeds -- I use it when one person has multiple blogs on the same subject and I want to consolidate their feeds. (tags: blogging) Podcast #5 - Phil Wainewright on why business... Read More..

IEEE Spectrum Online version of IEEE Spectrum magazine, including links to podcasts (tags: reference) Web Services Programming Course Root Page Free online web service development course (tags: development webdesign) What to look for in a SaaS vendor | Software... Read More..

I saw a post about Windows Live Writer, an offline blogging tool, on Rick's blog a couple of days ago, and decided to try it out. So far, I'm pretty impressed, although I haven't used any other offline blogging tools... Read More..

BPMN Diagrams - Introduction to Intermediate Events -Tyner Blain (tags: bpmn)... Read More..

IT|Redux » BPM is SOA's Killer Application "BPM is SOA's killer application because it will give you the reason for doing SOA at the first place." (tags: bpm) BPMN Diagrams - How To Use End Events (Part 2) -Tyner... Read More..

Fake Name Generator Generates fake names, birthdates, etc. for those obnoxious sites that make you provide personal details. (tags: tools) BPMN Diagrams - How To Use End Events (Part 1) -Tyner Blain More in the continuing series. (tags: bpmn)... Read More..

Email newsletters: the web 1.0 of permission marketing. How many of these do you subscribe to? How many that you receive do you actually read? I receive a number of email newsletters each day, almost all on the subject of... Read More..

Questions and comments about the IBM-FileNet acquisition have been coming at me since last Thursday when it was announced, asking for my perspective -- many people know that I was FileNet's Director of eBusiness Evangelism in 2000-01, and that FileNet... Read More..

BPMN Diagrams - Digging Artifacts -Tyner Blain Part of the continuing series of BPMN how-to's (tags: bpmn) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Bastard apps Nicholas Carr on mashups (tags: mashups) Creating Web 2.0 Applications: Seven Ways to Fully Embrace... Read More..

I checked in on today's BPM webinars by Appian (through their BPM Basics site). Some good things in the webinar series if you're relatively new to BPM, and a good amount of content that is not specific to Appian. This... Read More..

I did not see this coming (thanks to Elizabeth at ebizQ for tipping me off). [Disclosure: FileNet is a customer, and I'm a shareholder. I still didn't see it coming.] Back in 2000-01, when I worked for FileNet as their... Read More..

Great webinar on the business value of BPM and BPM standards today on ebizQ, and I'm not just saying that because I'm one of the speakers. :) The full replay should be available tomorrow at the same link. If you... Read More..

Corporate America wakes up to Web 2.0 | CNET News.com (tags: business web2.0) Techcrunch » Are Wikis the Best Format For Travel Guides? (tags: travel) Techcrunch » Attensa offers two rich enterprise RSS products (tags: web2.0) SOA 2.0 :... Read More..

I noticed a blip in my blog traffic on August 2nd, and I'm never sure what causes that although I did post 4 times that day about subjects as varied as the TED talks videos and how Ventana shouldn't really... Read More..

OMG now has a set of directories of vendors that offer products and services related to OMG standards, including BPM (because of BPMN and other emerging standards). It's free to have your company listed here, even if you're not an... Read More..

Business Process Modeling -Tyner Blain The whole set of BPMN "how to" posts, including those linked previously. (tags: bpmn)... Read More..

unconference » How to DIY Unconference Having been to a few unconferences, I like the format and we may try it for BlogHerNorth (tags: productivity)... Read More..

If you're not using a BPM modelling product that outputs to XPDL and want to get an idea of what it actually looks like, some of the vendors are posting samples of their BPMN/XPDL for interoperability testing on the WfMC... Read More..

I use del.icio.us for bookmarking sites that I want to remember, and I use a cool feature to post each day's links as a blog post. A while back, I learned about the "for" tag in del.icio.us, where if you... Read More..

BPMN Diagrams - How To Use Tasks -Tyner Blain Also links back to an earlier "intro to BPMN" post. (tags: bpmn) BPMN Diagrams - Introduction To Activities -Tyner Blain (tags: bpmn) BPMN Diagrams - How To Use Gateways -Tyner... Read More..

I've been watching statistics like this ever since I started in the BPM/document management field over 15 years ago, and they never seem to really go away. These ones were published by AIIM earlier this year: 400 Hours -- Number... Read More..

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Two Ways to Win at Process Improvement The advantages of BPA and BAM, even without a BPMS (tags: bpm)... Read More..

A recent article in Intelligent Enterprise, Content and BPM Vendors Swim Among the "Whales", talks about how the independent BPM vendors are faring amongst the big guys like Microsoft and Oracle. Open Text's strategy of using the big guys' products... Read More..

My reading is a bit behind due to my recent travel, and with my feed reader sitting at just under 3000 unread items, I tend to ignore the magazine feeds in favour of reading blogs. Today, I went back through... Read More..

I've been watching the TED videos recently, and there's some very interesting stuff (who knew Al Gore could be that funny?), but this one of Jeff Han displaying a new type of user interface is amazing. If you're interested in... Read More..

Although labelled "The business value of BPM", this is really a webinar on BPM standards as a wrap-up of the recent OMG BPM Think Tank, which I blogged extensively about. Since I was at the Think Tank and have a... Read More..

Yesterday's Intelligent Enterprise included a review by Derek Miers of the new Pegasystems release, which includes an AJAX-based portal for process "development" as well as runtime environments, although the actual process design appears to be done in Visio. Please, all... Read More..