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I fly home in the morning, so I'll be missing tomorrow's ARIS User Day; this was by design, since I really didn't want to sit through detailed product training sessions. I've had a number of people here recognize me... Read More..

Last up today is Andrew Spanyi discussing the "soft and fuzzy stuff about business process governance" (his words), and I have to say that I don't envy him the 5pm speaking slot. The audience is sparse -- many having... Read More..

Unfortunately, I had to step away from the conference for a couple of hours for some unrelated business -- a group podcast that you'll see here shortly, and an upcoming webinar -- but I was back in time to... Read More..

The first breakout of day 2, I attended a session on "Optimizing Process Through Business Rules" with Marshal Edgison, Director of Application Development for ELM Resources, a not-for-profit organization focussed on facilitating and processing student loans, about how they're... Read More..

The second session of the day was an executive customer roundtable with John Wheeler of Business Processes in Motion (he was formerly with Nova Chemicals, an ARIS customer, but now seems to be offering consulting services that he gently... Read More..

Dr. Jost started the day with a presentation on "The Basis for Linking BPM & SOA". Someone may have been reading one of my posts from yesterday, because when he put up the obligatory slide of VW, he referred... Read More..

I don't usually blog about breakfast, but I happened to end up sitting with Marc Kase of SAIC, whose presentation that I posted about yesterday. We had a great discussion about how they organize their team of business architects and... Read More..

Great hotel? Check. Good food? Check. Wifi in the conference rooms? Check. Green tea available at the breaks? Check. M&M's in the press room? Check. Oh yeah, the conference content is good, too. :) I have to admit, I didn't... Read More..

I skipped the last breakout session of the day for a discussion with Trevor Naidoo, IDS Scheer's Director of ARIS Solution Engineering. He's responsible for the pre-sales technical activities, and used to be an ARIS customer, so is very familiar with... Read More..

The second customer breakout session was Todd Lohr of Zurich North America, who discussed various process modelling initiatives within Zurich. They've expended a ton of effort on detailed as-is process mapping in order to drive process improvement, and it appears... Read More..