This is starting to get good. Let’s face it, not many people care about BPM standards, other than wouldn’t it be nice if we could agree on some. I’m really no different, although at this point I would admit to having a vested interest in getting quickly to a version of BPMN that was portable between tools. So I’ve tried to publicize and opine on some of the issues behind the normally secret deliberations over BPMN 2.0, now being hashed out in OMG. There are two competing proposals, one a longstanding OMG project called BPDM, and the other a joint submission from IBM, SAP, and Oracle that looks a lot like current BPMN but with a defined XML schema.Â
Until recently what commentary existed in the blogs on this topic was from the IBM-SAP-Oracle side, but in the past couple weeks the BPDM supporters have begun to tell their side, beginning with Fred Cummins , Conrad Bock , and now Lombardi’s Phil Gilbert . Of the three, Conrad’s for me ...
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Oracle-BEA: All To Be Revealed July 1From: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-06-12 14:48:24
A lot of speculation about the fate of BPM and other BEA goodies after what Sandy calls “the Borg” has its way with them. Oracle will reveal all in a public webcast on July 1 at 9am PT/noon ET. To the analysts they wrote:
On July 1st at Noon EDT/9:00 am PDT/5:00 pm in London, as part of the “Welcome BEA and Middleware Strategy Briefing” webcast, Charles Phillips and Thomas Kurian will explain how the addition of BEA products to Oracle Fusion Middleware will cre...
more BPMN and Business-Empowered Implementation… Twice Next WeekFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-06-11 19:12:07
Next week I’m stirring the pot again on one of my favorite topics - BPMN and Business-Empowered Implementation. Not once but twice.
On June 17 I’ll be moderating a panel at the Intalio User Conference in San Francisco. I’m hoping for users who have been-there-done-that with Intalio’s BPMN modeler. What is the business-IT interaction really like? What skills are required? What are the hard parts? The parts that went better than expected? I’m inter...
more BPMN to Requester: Get Outta My PoolFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-06-11 11:48:48
One of BPMN’s most important elements is unfortunately also the most misunderstood. It’s called a pool, a rectangular shape that serves as a container for a process. So in that sense a pool is synonymous with a process, and that’s as basic as you can get. The confusion sets in when you understand that a business process diagram (BPD) - the top-level object in BPMN, describing a single end-to-end business process - frequently contains multiple pools. Usually on...
more Sex on the Brain at CMPFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
Post Date: 2008-06-06 07:52:46
CMP’s TechWeb syndicates my blog, and someone posted a question re my recent post about The Future of BPM at BEA/Oracle . When I tried to reply, the CMP site rejected it for sexual innuendo or something. You be the judge.
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I did not see any speific remarks about Aqualogic in your article and pose this question to you:
Given the current apabilities of Aqualogic and Oracle’s existing ‘positioning’ of its (OEMd) BPA suite, would not Oracle be ...
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