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I'll be presenting on a webinar today at noon (Eastern) sponsored by TIBCO, the first in a series of three webinars covering process discovery, process modeling and process design. It's not too late to sign up if you want to... Read More..

From Markus Strohmaier of the Know-Center Graz, information on this September's I-KNOW (International Conference on Knowledge Management), including a special track on Task and Process Exploration and Modelling with the following objectives: In contrast to the well researched and applied top-down... 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..

In the last session of the day, hence the only thing standing between the attendees and the bar, Tim and I gave a talk on business process modelling. My portion of the talk, which was not at all TIBCO-specific, talked... Read More..

I finally made it home from Chicago around 1:30 this morning: United Airlines wimped out and cancelled all their flights, but Air Canada came through in the crunch. I'm now on a Proforma webinar about their new V6.0 release of... Read More..

Last session of the day for me: I'm headed off to the airport following this, although I realize that the probability of a flight in or out of Chicago being on time when it's snowing is near zero. With some... Read More..

For the first breakout session of the day, I attended Ken Orr's talk on Business Process Driven Enterprise Architecture. He started out with some observations: improving business processes is essential for enterprises; business architecture is critical; modelling is critical; and business... Read More..

Vendor announcements are dropping from the trees around here this week, but I found this one particularly interesting after my trip to the IDS Scheer user conference a few weeks ago: Microsoft has selected IDS Scheer as a preferred business... Read More..

I hosted a webinar -- now available for replay -- with Colin Teubner of Forrester and Jim Rudden of Lombardi on Tuesday this week, discussing collaborative process modelling and on-demand BPM in the wake of Lombardi's beta release of Blueprint... Read More..

Nothing like a good old-fashioned vendor smackdown. In response to the software-as-a-service announcements by Lombardi and Appian on Monday, Pat "Fighting Irish" Morrissey of Savvion threw in his two cents worth: Yesterday's announcements are a beautiful snapshot of on-demand's reality... Read More..