I had a quick briefing with Daniel Meyer, CTO of Camunda, about today’s release. With this new version 7.15, they are rebranding from Camunda BPM to Camunda Platform (although most customers just refer to the product as “Camunda” since they really bundle everything in one package). This follows the lead of other vendors who have … Continue reading “Camunda Platform 7.15: now low-code (-ish)”
I split off the first part of CamundaCon day 2 since it was getting a bit long: I had a briefing with Daniel Meyer earlier in the week on the new RPA integration, and had a lot of thoughts on that already. I rejoined for Camunda VP of Product Management Rick Weinberg’s roadmap presentation, which … Continue reading “CamundaCon 2020.2 Day 2: roadmap, business-driven DMN and ethical algorithms”
This is now my third day attending IBM’s online Think 2020 conference: I attended the analyst preview on Monday, then the first day of the conference yesterday. We started the day with Mark Foster, SVP of IBM Services, giving a keynote on building resilient and smarter businesses. He pointed out that we are in uncertain … Continue reading “IBM #Think2020 Day 2: Smarter Business is apparently only about AI”
Model-Based Optimization for Effective and Reliable Decision-Making. Robert Fourer, AMPL Robert Fourer presented on model-based optimization, starting with a bit of background on mathematical optimization techniques and the optimization cycle in practice. He looked at method-based approaches — which define how a solution should be found — and model-driven approaches — which define what a … Continue reading “DecisionCAMP 2019: model-based optimization, and decision management in claims”
I had an afternoon with AppWorks at OpenText Enterprise World: a roadmap session followed by a technical deep dive. AppWorks is their low-code tool that includes process management, case management, and access to content and other information, supported across mobile and desktop and platforms. It contains a number of pre-packaged components, and a technical developer … Continue reading “OpenText Enterprise World 2019: AppWorks roadmap and technical deep dive”
ML, Conversational UX, and Intelligence in BPM, with Andre Hofeditz and Seshadri Sreeniva of SAP plus DMN TCK update We’re at the end of bpmNEXT for another year, and we have one last demo. Seshadri showed a demo of their intelligent BPM for an employee onboarding process (integrated with SuccessFactors), where the process can vary … Continue reading “bpmNEXT 2019 demo: intelligent BPM by @SAP plus DMN TCK working group”
First session of the afternoon on the first day of bpmNEXT 2018, and this entire section is on DMN (decision management notation) and the requirement for decision automation based on DMN. Decision as a Service (DaaS): The DMN Platform Revolution, Trisotech Denis Gagne of Trisotech, who knows as much about DMN and other related standards … Continue reading “bpmNEXT 2018: All DMN all the time, with Trisotech, Bruce Silver Associates and Red Hat”
And we’re off with the demo sessions! Secure, Private Decentralized Business Processes for Blockchains, ConsenSys Vanessa Bridge of ConsenSys spoke about using BPMN diagrams to create smart contracts and other blockchain applications, while also including privacy, security and other necessary elements: essentially, using BPM to enable Ethereum-based smart contracts (rather than using blockchain as a … Continue reading “bpmNEXT 2018: Here’s to the oddballs, with ConsenSys, XMPro and BPLogix”
The term “business process management” (BPM) has always been a bit problematic because it means two things: the operations management practice of discovering, modeling and improving business processes, which may have no technology involved whatsoever; and the suite of technologies associated with automating processes. I’ve often heard – and sometimes participated in – arguments on … Continue reading “What’s in a name? BPM and DPA”
Books Although I haven’t yet written a whole book of my own, I’ve contributed to a few of them. The Handbook on Business Process Management (this is the 2015 edition, an earlier version of my chapter was also published in the 2010 edition) is a textbook targeted at both academics and practitioners, and used as … Continue reading “Books and journals”
