Archive for January, 2006
BPM, Rules and Metadata
When business processes get large, some additional level of abstraction is required in order to deal with the complexity. One of our customers has a process made of 250,000 activities. Yes, you read correctly, that’s a quarter million boxes connected with each other through very many arrows. When building the system that is automating such […]
Open Source is Serious Business
As corporate buyers get more comfortable with Open Source business models, the stakes are getting higher and the game more and more sophisticated. This is the kind of environment where lawyers thrive, especially in the United States, a place were litigation is next to baseball on the list of favorite passtimes. If copyrights, licenses, patents […]
Mercury acquires Systinet
Mercury today announced the acquisition of Systinet. Similarly to HP’s acquisition of Talking Blocks two years ago, this move outlines the convergence of SOA and IT services management. What I find interesting in this acquisition is that it follows Mercury’s earlier acquisition of Kintana, a BPM company specialized in the management of ITIL processes. When […]
BAM Redux
The concept of Complex Event Processing (CEP) promoted by Stanford Professor David Luckham seems to be gaining some good traction. David Cameron has a nice introduction on the subject. What I like about the approach is that it complements the more rigid Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) capabilities that are offered by today’s BPM systems. […]
Salesforce.com Winter ‘06 Released
Salesforce.com Winter ‘06 was released last night. Among other improvements, a new user interface, AppExchange and recurring events, a trivial but highly useful feature. Salesforce.com presented this upgrade as a major one, and indeed AppExchange makes it a big deal. Nevertheless, the upgrade was absolutely seamless, as we shall see later in the post.
The new user […]
You get what you pay for, and more
Intalio recently announced the release of the first Open Source BPMS to support BPMN, BPEL and BPEL4People. As was expected, competitors were quick to point out that you only get what you pay for and should buy their products instead if you want an enterprise-class BPMS, or as my good friend Phil Gilbert pointed out, […]
BPM’s Evolving Value Proposition
I’ve been speaking at BPM conferences for—well, too long, probably—but long enough to see the evolution of BPM’s essential value proposition, as expounded by consultants, industry analysts, and BPMS vendors. Consistent with Darwinian theory, this evolution has not followed a simple linear thread but has branched into multiple lines, some destined to die out and […]
Working Around Gmail’s Quota
I have been using Gmail to aggregate all my email accounts since October 14, 2005. Even though I delete all incoming spam, I collected 459 MB worth of email, which amounts to 17% of Gmail’s current 2681 MB quota. Assuming that Google does not accelerate the rate at which email quota gets increased (0.3456 MB […]
Migrated to WordPress
Now that Yahoo! is offering a hosted version of WordPress, I have decided to migrate to this more advanced blogging platform. I liked TypePad’s ease of use and was pleasantly surprised by Six Apart’s professional handling of their recent technical problems, but the ability to customize WordPress is what got me sold, not to mention […]
Online Feed Reader
An email client can be used to read feeds from weblogs and other websites, but I tend to prefer a dedicated client that has a simpler user interface and makes subsciptions a snap. Separating emails from feeds is also a good way to reduce one’s distraction level on a daily basis.
I have been using Google Reader […]
Inferences for ‘06
Happy New Year to all!
Everybody does it, so here are my inferences for ‘06:
BPMS will go mainstream
With BPEL gaining support for distributed transactions and human workflow while BPMN is receiving the blessing of the OMG, industry standards are making the BPMS ready for mainstream adoption. Just in time for Gartner to release the first BPMS magic quadrant […]
