BEAparticipate: May 2007 Archives

Last session of the conference, and it was a tough choice: the ALBPM Experience track was featuring a talk about BAM, but since I'd already covered this in the past two days, I decided on the performance tuning session. Unfortunately,... Read More..

Brandon Dean of BEA talked about how to use BPM for compliance and improved visibility into processes. I wrote a course on compliance and BPM recently, and I was interested in how they're seeing this roll out amongst their customer... Read More..

First session of the last morning, Eduardo Chiocconi of BEA and Rob Wald of JPMorgan Chase talked about the ALBPM UI: what comes out of the box, and what you can build yourself. Out of the box, ALBPM has three... Read More..

Eduardo Chiocconi of BEA gave us a technical view of the ALBPM BAM functionality: what's available out of the box, the extensions, how to create customized dashboards, security, and a bit of the architecture underlying it all so that we... Read More..

Jesper Joergensen gave us BEA's view of how BPM is changing business and the future of BPM. Actually, he starts out with Gartner's view of expected market growth (hockey, anyone?) and how BPM is becoming more and more a part of... Read More..

Last session of the morning was Mateo Almenta Recca of BEA and Kunal Shah of Citigroup talking about advanced process modelling -- specifically process exceptions -- in ALBPM. Exceptions can be either system exceptions, such as a service being unavailable,... Read More..

I started my day in a session about what's coming up in future versions of ALBPM; unfortunately, most of the information hasn't been publicly released, so you'll have to wait to read about it at a later date. BEA will... Read More..

One hour left, and 25% of my battery life. It's a race to the finish. Craig Cochrane from BEA's professional services and Becky Lewis of SAIC finished off the first day with a session on the specific nature of BPM... Read More..

I'm jumping around between tracks (and hence rooms): I started the afternoon in the ALUI Experience track, then on to the ALBPM Technical/Developer track, and now I'm in the ALBPM Experience track for a discussion of best practices for managing... Read More..

Mariano Benitez of BEA (part of the original Fuego team that built what is now ALBPM) and Bhaskar Rayavaram of Bear Stearns (who was with Fuego before joining Bear Stearns) presented a unified view of BPM and SOA. Benitez started... Read More..

For the first breakout session, I attended BPM 101 for Portals to hear Jesper Joergensen of BEA's product marketing group and Bob O'Connor of Pratt & Whitney. Jesper started out by giving a brief review of BPM (the usual model/execute/analyze/optimize cycle),... Read More..

The general sessions finished with Adrian McDermott and Jay Simons from BEA engineering and product marketing to talk about -- no surprise by now -- the new Enterprise 2.0 products. This conference is starting to look like one big launch... Read More..

The general session continues with some BEA product and services information from Shane Pearson, VP of Marketing and Product Management someone whose name that I missed since I was late coming into the session after the break (someone help me... Read More..

Last up before the morning break was Brian Abrahamson, Director of Enterprise Architecture at PG&E; although I've been interested in the portal presentations prior to this, I was relieved to finally get some BPM/SOA content. They started on a huge... Read More..

The Ministry of Education of Luxembourg has implemented an educational portal using BEA technology, and Daniel Weiler, a professor at the Center of Technology for Education, discussed what they've learned over the 5 years since first implementation. They had a vision 5... Read More..

Next up were Frank Ybarra and Bambi George of Applebee's, a customer of BEA, discussing their corporate (internal-facing) portal and business agility. They're a public company (for now) with almost 2,000 restaurants in 49 states and 17 other countries, 75%... Read More..

Day 1 of the BEA user conference in Atlanta, and we start out with a morning of general sessions hosted by Ira Pollack, SVP Sales at BEA; the remainder of the 2-1/2 day conference is all breakout sessions. There's wifi... Read More..

I'll be blogging live from the BEA user conference this week in Atlanta. I arrived here today and had a quick look around the evening partner exhibition/drinks reception, but I'm really looking forward to the sessions tomorrow. Jesper Joergensen has... Read More..