The Insider's Guide to Next-Generation BPM
By Dennis Byron, Analyst, ebizQ , 07/15/2009
Print this article
Email this article
Talk Back!
Write to Editor
Recently in a BPM Viewpoint article for ebizQ, I had a little fun at the expense of Global 360 over its "BPM Glossary." So as not to play favorites I have since dived into SAP's and Accenture's "BPM Taxonomy," subtitled "A Guided Tour to the Application of BPM," which is available here.
First of all, there is a difference between a taxonomy and a glossary. Taxonomy does not involve stuffing elk heads but "is the practice and science of classification," according to Wikipedia. According to the same source, "A glossary is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms." A good taxonomy requires a glossary but a glossary does not require a taxonomy.
Despite the title, the SAP/Accenture white paper does not provide a business process management (BPM) classification system but instead "provides a survey of the practices and technology of BPM" and a companion survey of various very selective types of software tools that can be used to enable BPM. Although I have never done a full BPM taxonomy, my back-of-an-envelope classification of BPM technology is much broader than SAP's implied taxonomy. As this diagram that we use to illustrate BPM history here at ebizQ shows, I count at least a half-dozen classes (although startup is admittedly a false class; pureplay would also be a straw-man classification except that I don't fall into that trap).
I did not pore over all 55 pages of SAP's and Accenture's white paper in detail but it appears -- naturally -- that SAP does not want to go as broad as I do since it does not supply many of the possible BPM-enabling tool types. In particular I saw no mention of enterprise content management (ECM) or B2B technology (although SAP itself has a good story in the latter class). And the white paper really got down into the weeds of services oriented architecture (SOA), which is not required to implement a useful BPM solution.
-1-
Best Practices in Moving Processes to the Clouds
How Can the Cloud Fit Into Your Applications Strategy?
Cloud Data Integration Best Practices
The Economics of Cloud Computing
Data Services Insight: Successful implementation of Canonical Information Models
Top 10 Reasons to Replace Enterprise Search with Unified Information Access Part 2 
Top 10 Reasons to Replace Enterprise Search with Unified Information Access Part 1
How to Empower Your Business Innovators to Make the Most of Business Process Management
Document Software - A Safe Bet for Businesses in an Unpredictable Economy
Should You Send Workload Automation to the Cloud?
March 10, 2011
The sixth annual BPM in Action 2011 Virtual Conference will explore cutting-edge market developments in BPM and describe how to leverage them for improved business operation and performance. More
Date:Apr 07, 2010
Time:13:00 PM
ET- (17:00 GMT)
Date:Apr 07, 2010
Time:12:00 PM
ET- (16:00 GMT)
In part two of Joe McKendrick's recent podcast with Miko Matsumura, chief strategist for Software AG, they talk about how SOA and IT systems need to change and grow and adapt with the organization around it.
Listen Now
Phil Wainewright interviews David Vap, VP of products at RightNow Technologies, and finds out how sharing best practices can help businesses understand how best to engage with online communities.
Listen Now
Scott Hebner, Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for IBM Rational, discusses a topic on the top of every company's mind today: getting the most from IT investments.
Listen Now
In BI, this tough economy and the increasing role of Web 2.0 and MDM are certainly topics on people's minds today. WiseAnalytics' Lyndsay Wise addresses each of them in this informative podcast.
Listen Now
Deepak Singh, President and CTO of Adeptia, joins ebizQ's Dennis Byron in a podcast that gets its hand around the trend of industry-specific BPM.
Listen NowSmart event processing can help your company run smarter and faster. This comprehensive guide helps you research the basics of complex event processing (CEP) and learn how to get started on the right foot with your CEP project using EDA, RFID, SOA, SCADA and other relevant technologies. Learn More
A lot of people are talking about Enterprise 2.0 as being the business application of Web 2.0 technology. However, there's still some debate on exactly what this technology entails, how it applies to today's business models, and which components bring true value. Some use the term Enterprise 2.0 exclusively to describe the use of social networking technologies in the enterprise, while others use it to describe a web economy platform, or the technological framework behind such a platform. Still others say that Enterprise 2.0 is all of these things. Learn More
|
|
This new publication from our sister site SearchSOA.com explores workflow, business activity monitoring (BAM) and complex event processing (CEP) issues. |
|
|
