Hot BAM!

If there’s anything better than hearing about a hot new product like FileNet’s BAM, it’s hearing it in Danny Pidutti’s lovely Aussie accent. There’s a few misconceptions in his presentation around the differences between BI and BAM; I see BAM as just a process-oriented subset of BI, although the real-time nature means that we’re in … Continue reading “Hot BAM!”

Bits and pieces

I’m heads-down on a project this week so not much time for catching up on the news and blogging. However, interesting things keep happening whether I’m watching or not… RUNA WFE 1.0.1, an open-source workflow based on JBOSS-JBPM was released. More details here, including a link to an online demo. Open source BPM is going … Continue reading “Bits and pieces”

SOA and banking

I viewed a webinar today featuring a senior integration architect at Bank of America talking about how they use webMethods to facilitate their massive integration efforts, apparently with some degree of success. I liked the admission by both the customer and vendor that SOA is an architectural design approach of loosely-coupled components, not a particular … Continue reading “SOA and banking”

Global 360 Active Compliance Framework

I watched a webinar earlier this week about BPM and compliance, a topic that I’ve been working on for a while, in which Global 360 announced their Active Compliance Framework (today’s Computer Business Review also reviewed their announcement). The speakers were from Doculabs and BWise, the latter of which has just partnered with Global 360 … Continue reading “Global 360 Active Compliance Framework”

BPM and BR: Mars and Venus again

As I mentioned in this post, there’s a bit of Mars and Venus about BPM and business rules (BR). I’ve viewed two BPM-BR webinars recently. The first, a replay from back in March on the convergence of BPM and business rules; since I’ve been writing a lot about this topic lately, I gave it a … Continue reading “BPM and BR: Mars and Venus again”

Business Performance Management survey

If you caught their webinar on Business Performance Management and Optimization a few weeks ago, you’ll know that ebizQ is putting together a survey on business performance management for their Buyer’s Choice Awards. You can help create and weight the criteria that will be used in the survey if you’re so inclined. I’m still having … Continue reading “Business Performance Management survey”

Process Orchestration 101

Today’s Integration 101 webinar talked about why it’s important to integrate applications. Basically, if you don’t, then you probably have the following problems in your business processes: No real-time visibility into the process Long cycle time due to manual data gathering and other non-automated tasks In other words, your customer drops their information into a … Continue reading “Process Orchestration 101”