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Business-Empowered BPM Implementation: Good for Business... and IT

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Bruce Silver (view Bruce's bio)

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A new generation of software is at last delivering on BPM's longtime promise of business-empowerment. That's a frightening prospect for many in IT, but it shouldn't be. It doesn't mean that production applications are being built and deployed by business without IT involvement. But it does mean that business is doing more than handing off requirements. Leveraging standards like BPMN, today's BPM tools allow the process models created by business to play a direct role in the production implementation, and encourage a new iterative development style featuring business-IT collaboration. We'll discuss how the new paradigm works, its impact on the BPM/SOA boundary, and the challenges it poses for both business and IT.

• Business-empowered implementation: what it is and what it isn't
• The key enabler: BPMN-based BPM suites
• Meeting the challenge with new roles and new modeling skills

Featured Speaker

Bruce Silver is an independent industry analyst and consultant focused on business process management. He delivers training on Process Modeling with BPMN through BPMessentials.com and the BPM Institute, and writes the popular BPMS Watch blog. He is also author of the BPMS Report series of BPM Suite evaluations available from bpminstitute.org, and co-chair of the BPM Institute BPM Conference series.

Prior to going independent in 1994, Dr Silver directed workflow and document management research at BIS Strategic Decisions (which became Giga Information Group, now part of Forrester Research), and before that managed software development and marketing organizations. He served on the board of directors of Captiva Software, acquired in 2006 by EMC. He holds Physics degrees from Princeton and MIT, and four patents in electronic imaging.