ProcessWorld Day 1: Gartner Keynote with Jim Sinur and Michael Blechar

Following the keynote by Prof. Scheer, we had the Gartner tag team of Jim Sinur (who covers BPM overall) and Michael Blechar (who covers modelling, information architecture, and model-driven architecture) on the subject of “What’s New With BPM?” They did a great back-and-forth presentation on stage, although they did end up with the inevitable plug … Continue reading “ProcessWorld Day 1: Gartner Keynote with Jim Sinur and Michael Blechar”

The Modelling-to-BPM cycle

I attended a webinar last week about Proforma and Workpoint, and I have to say that the “for more information” slide at the end of the presentation is the best one that I’ve ever seen in all my years of corporate presentations. Dan, that may not be your picture on the slide, but kudos. Update: … Continue reading “The Modelling-to-BPM cycle”

OMG online tutorial on BPMM

Major correction: this tutorial is on BPMM (business process maturity model), not BPMN. Thanks to Phil Gilbert for emailing me a prompt correction. If you’re interested in learning more about the business process maturity model (BPMM), tune in to a tutorial that OMG is running on November 30th at noon Eastern time. From their description: … Continue reading “OMG online tutorial on BPMM”

Proforma conference presentations

I totally slacked off after leaving the conference on Thursday afternoon, spending the early evening at the Voodoo Lounge catching the sunset from 51 floors, then hanging around the Masquerade mezzanine watching the Mardi Gras show before turning in early enough to make that 7am flight home on Friday. So here it is, Monday morning, … Continue reading “Proforma conference presentations”

Proforma conference Day 1 quick look

There’s wifi in the conference room, but you have to sign up at the business centre for it ahead of time, which was just too much logistics for me to blog live. However, it’s 5am on Day 2 and my brain is still on Eastern time, so time for a few updates. I’ll do a … Continue reading “Proforma conference Day 1 quick look”

BPM 202: Knowledge Management & Collaboration

I checked in on today’s BPM webinars by Appian (through their BPM Basics site). Some good things in the webinar series if you’re relatively new to BPM, and a good amount of content that is not specific to Appian. This one is Fundamentals of Knowledge Management and Collaboration Functionality; they also have one on Fundamentals … Continue reading “BPM 202: Knowledge Management & Collaboration”

Independent BPM vendors navigating dangerous waters

A recent article in Intelligent Enterprise, Content and BPM Vendors Swim Among the “Whales”, talks about how the independent BPM vendors are faring amongst the big guys like Microsoft and Oracle. Open Text‘s strategy of using the big guys’ products as infrastructure to build their own products on top of makes a lot of sense, … Continue reading “Independent BPM vendors navigating dangerous waters”