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The Business Value of Process Standards

Date: April 06, 2005

Time: 12:00 pm US Eastern

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Featured Speakers:

Dave Shaffer, Director of Product Management, Oracle (bio)
Jeanne Baker, BPM Analyst for Cedar Consulting and Chairman for BPMI, BPMI.org (bio)

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Moderator:

David A. Kelly

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Companies of all sizes can benefit from effective business process management. Emerging BPM standards are designed to improve relationships between customers and suppliers, to identify new opportunities for organization growth and to turn value chain choreography into a competitive advantage.

This presentation will cover:

• The business benefits of BPM
• The state of the BPM standards landscape
• An overview of the roles of leading standards bodies
• A discussion of the results of a recent standards body summit
• Insights into continuing work beyond the standards body summit

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Featured Speaker Bios:

Dave Shaffer is Director of Product Management at Oracle for the Oracle BPEL Process Manager. Previously, he has held senior technical and management roles over the last 15 years at companies including Collaxa, Apple Computer, NeXT Software and Integrated Computer Solutions. Dave was also a Computer Science faculty member at the University of Vermont and can be reached at david.shaffer@oracle.com

Jeanne Baker currently serves as BPM Analyst for Cedar Consulting, an IT strategy and execution services company that assists clients plan and implement practices that better leverage their business and IT assets.

Baker is also chairman of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), an Object Management Group (OMG) Steering Committee which promotes standards for BPM design, deployment, execution, maintenance and optimization.

Baker is a subject matter expert and industry thought leader in the areas of Business Process Management, B2B Integration and Service Oriented Architecture. She has authored more than a dozen articles for industry publications such as Internet World and Business Integration Journal and is a frequent guest speaker at conferences hosted by Yankee, Gartner, ebizQ, Delphi, Brainstorm and others on the topics of multi-enterprise collaboration, service-oriented architecture, enterprise integration, use-case-driven development and business process management.

Baker worked for Sterling Commerce from 1996-2006, where she most recently served as Vice President of Tehcnology, a role in which she shaped and articulated the $500 million software vendor's product strategy. Prior to that, she held various positions including Vice President of Solutions Engineering, Product Strategy Director and Product Development Director.

Before joining Sterling Commerce, Baker worked in the information technology industry for ten years in software development and research positions for Comshare and the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM).

She holds a B.S. degree in marketing from Indiana University and a Masters in mathematics from Eastern Michigan University. Baker also earned a graduate certificate in artificial intelligence from Eastern Michigan University.

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