IBM bulks out WebSphere's waistline • The Register

IBM is expanding its portfolio of WebSphere business process management (BPM) and service oriented architecture (SOA) products in a major refresh.

"This is a substantial release for us where we have lined up and concurrently releasing a majority of our products around version 7," said WebSphere general manager Craig Hayman. "But it's not just a product number - each is now deeply integrated. From the application server to the business process management stack to the registry and governance stack to the cloud offering, BlueWorks."

via theregister.co.uk

Some details about the forthcoming expansion of IBM's BPM tools, courtesy of 'The Register'

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Business Rules Management – the misunderstood partner to process — JT on EDM

Jim Sinur on the topic of business rules management – BRM – and its role as the misunderstood partner for process.  Jim argues you cannot survive, much less thrive, if you do not know your business rules.

via jtonedm.com

James Taylor on Jim Sinur on Business Rules Management (stick with me on this, it's worth it!)

4 thoughts on the linkages and interrelationship between BRM and BPM. Worth a five minute read.

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Tim Wilson: Free BPM Modeling Tools " Business Process Management (BPM) – InSights

 

I recently was asked by a customer if I know of any free process modeling and automation tools. This got me thinking of how many vendors provide a free edition of their software for unlimited use i.e. no trial basis or try before you buy editions. After some research I came up with the following short list:

 Free BPM and Process Modeling Tools:

• BizAgi Process Modeler
• Questetra BPM Suite
• Tibco Business Studio
• Aris Express (soon to be released)
• Process Maker
• Open ModelSphere
• Visual Paradigm – Smart Development Environment (Community Edition)
• Visual Paradigm for UML (Community Edition)

I have not evaluated each application so could not comment on their strengths and weaknesses but would be interested to hear about other free BPM and/or Enterprise Architecture tools so I can add them to my resource list. 

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via bpmfundamentals.wordpress.com

An interesting list. Also some good additions in the comments. Worth a quick look.

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Exclusive Technology Survey Results

CIO - Cloud computing services (60 percent), business intelligence (51 percent), and business process management (51 percent) are among the leading technology priorities of interest to IT professionals in the coming year, according to an exclusive survey among 797 CIO.com visitors involved in technology purchases at their organizations. The survey, conducted earlier this summer, also finds more IT buyers interested in cloud computing services and open source technologies than last year. Six out of 10 respondents count cloud services among the infrastructure technologies on their radar (36 percent) actively researching (24 percent), up from 46 percent in a similar survey conducted in November, 2008. Open source technologies are on the radar screens or under investigation for nearly half of IT buyers surveyed (48 percent), up from 37 percent eight months ago.

via computerworld.com

Some interesting IT statistics from Computerworld. Click the link above for the full story

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Let coffee be your guide to Process Experience – taraneon international blog

Process Experience – The coffee example

This presentation is also available for download

via taraneon.de

My good friend (and fellow BPM Nexus founder) Thomas over at Teraneon.de has put up a very simple slide show to illustrate the concept of customer focused processes. He uses the example of making coffee (the Nescafe way and the Starbucks way). The thing I particularly like about this slide show is that whilst it illustrates quite clearly the different methods of doing things, it then identifies quite specifically the thinking which leads to 'bad' process design vs that which leads to 'customer focused' process design.

In my dealings with customers I, too, have fallen into this trap because on big, complex processes it is easy to lose sight of who that process should be designed for. But by reducing everything to a basic 'cup of coffee' analogy, it makes it a lot easier to keep the target in mind.

I would urge all my readers to take a look at this slide show and think about what it is indicating about process design generally.

You might also want to take a quick look at the BPM Nexus (http://bpmnexus.ning.com/) and see what we are doing over there.

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Appian Upgrades BPM Suite > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions

Among the ease-of-use features in Appian 6 is one-click import, export and publishing of models, rules, expressions, forms and all other components of a process application. In addition, the upgrade offers application-centric portal views for end users.

via intelligent-enterprise.informationweek.com

Click the link above for more details on the Appian 6 upgrade

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BPO.biz : BPO Blog, BPO News, BPO Updates, Business Process Outsourcing Industry News » Is It The End Of BPO Business In India ?

More business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers in India will exit the market in coming years, as it is difficult for them to 
stay afloat in the current form due to the slowdown, according to a study released here Wednesday.  “One-quarter of the top business process outsourcing (BPO) service providers will not exist as separate entities by 2012,” said the study by IT research and advisory firm Gartner.

via bpo.biz

 

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