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The acquisition of webMethods by Software AG that I wrote about in April has finally come to fruition, although the planned press/analyst web conference on Friday somehow managed to crash the hosting provider's servers so I didn't get all the... Read More..

There's a webinar going on right now (12 Eastern) on ebizQ about which comes first, BPM or SOA, featuring Colin Teubner of Forrester. I like his agenda point: "Why SOA needs BPM (and not vice versa)".... 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..

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..

Thursday morning, and it seems like a few of us survived last night's baseball game (and the after-parties) to make it here for the first session of the day. This will be my last session of the conference, since I... Read More..

Last in the morning's general session was Tom Laffey, TIBCO's EVP of products and technologies, and Matt Quinn, VP of product management and strategy. Like Ranadivé's talk earlier, they're talking about enterprise virtualization: positioning messaging, for example, as virtualizing the network... Read More..

Bob Glushko, a prof at UC Berkeley, and Shelley Evenson, a prof at CMU, discussed different views on bridging the front stage and back stage in service system design. As a side note, I have to say that it's fun... Read More..

There's an awful lot of keynotes in this conference: a couple of overall sessions this morning, now "track keynotes" for each of the four tracks within the BPM conference. I'm in Bruce Silver's New Directions in BPM Tools and Technology... Read More..

Consolidation in the industry keeps grinding on, with Software AG announcing that they will acquire webMethods for $546M. Last year, when I interviewed webMethods' EVP of Product Development, I wrote that their new BPM launch placed them squarely in competition with... Read More..