March 2011 Archives

What, exactly, is analytics? James Taylor, leading consultant on decision management solutions, puts it very succinctly: "'Analytics' is a powerful term, one that has a lot of buzz and energy at the moment. It has  tremendous range of meanings, from... Read More..

Case management - dynamic case management - is helping to fill in the gaps automated business processing leaves behind. At ebizQ's latest BPM in Action virtual conference, Craig Le Clare, analyst at Forrester, discussed the emergence of dynamic case management,... Read More..

Everyone talks about reusability -- the ability to write once, run everywhere.  But in reality, the deck is stacked against it.That's the cautionary note sounded by Todd Biske, enterprise architect extraordinaire and author of SOA Governance: The Key to Successful... Read More..

Increasing the value of business processes calls for well-managed business process management practices and techniques, but there's a piece that often gets overlooked - the rules that drive the processes. "Eighty percent of the benefits seen in processes will come... Read More..

There's nothing new about event processing - good architects have been employing event processing into their systems for years, to better manage data and commands going in and out of their systems. What is new, however, is that event... Read More..

I usually don't delve too deeply into specific product reviews here at SOA in Action, but it's worth pointing to a post by Mark Nelson on the interplay between BPM and SOA methodologies and features that is supported in Oracle's... Read More..

This Thursday, March 10th, ebizQ/TechTarget will be presenting its 6th annual "BPM in Action" virtual conference, which explores the latest cutting-edge trends in business process management and related areas.Gartner's Roy Schulte, co-author of Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for... Read More..