James Taylor's Decision Management

First, congratulations to my friends at webMethods whose new release hit the streets today. Fabric 7 looks to me, and I think to others (Bruce Silver, Sandy Kemsley), like a new benchmark in integration-centric BPM products. Support for rules, BAM, SOA registries, repositories and all sorts of other goodies and all pretty well integrated.

Secondly hi to Brett Stineman, an old colleague, who's article on BPM appeared today. His article does a nice job on describing most of the key features of a BPM suite though as he likely guesses, I am going to take him to task for omitting any kind of decision technologies in his list of needed features! I have posted before on the need to focus on the decision-making spots (diamonds) in your processes and on why a BPMS is not enough to deliver agility.

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