I’m at the IDS Scheer user conference this week, so expect to see a lot of blogging about that around here. Leaving Toronto in -15C for +15C in Jacksonville, Florida wasn’t my only reason for attending; I’m very interested in how people are modelling their processes more collaboratively, and a room full of real users is the best way to get a good cross-section. As I wrote yesterday, I’m also interested in how processes are moving from a model to an executable environment, since I think that there’s still a lot of people who are recreating those models in their BPMS after they’ve already been created once in a process modelling tool like ARIS or ProVision. I saw a press release early today how about IDS Scheer and Fujitsu will be showing off their integration at the conference this week, and I imagine that there will be a few other BPMS vendors there with the same story.
I had a great conversation at tonight’s reception with a couple of people from an end-user organization about the whole modelling-execution conundrum, and hope to have more of this over the next few days. I also want to see what customers are doing to advance modelling/design collaboration in their enterprises.
All related posts this week will be tagged with the category ARISProcessWorld.
Disclosure: IDS Scheer covered my expenses to attend. If you think that’s not fair, keep in mind that I’m an independent analyst/architect/blogger and I’m not paid for the blogging part (that’s right, I don’t work for ebizQ, they just host my blog), so 4 days down here means 4 lost days of real billable work for me.