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The Digital Agility Layer: Time To Get Intentionally Digital

The Digital Agility Layer: Time To Get Intentionally Digital

By Sandy Kemsley on October 10, 2013

Wolfram Jost, CTO of Software AG, started us off on the first full day of Innovation World with a keynote on innovations for the digital enterprise. As I mentioned yesterday, the use of the term “digital enterprise” (and even more, “digitization”) is a bit strange, since pretty much everything is digital these days, it’s just […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BPA, BPM, Business process management, EA, IW13, modeling, SOA, Software AG | 2 Responses

Kicking Off @SoftwareAG @InnovationWorld

Kicking Off @SoftwareAG @InnovationWorld

By Sandy Kemsley on October 8, 2013

For the first time in a few years, I’m at Software AG’s Innovation World conference in San Francisco (I think that the last time I was here, it was still the webMethods Integration World), and the focus is on the Digital Enterprise. At the press panel that I attended just prior to this evening’s opening […]

Posted in Business | Tagged BPA, BPM, Business process management, CEP, conferences, IW13, modeling, SOA, Software AG | 4 Responses

RAVEN Cloud General Release: Generate Process Maps From Natural Language Text

RAVEN Cloud General Release: Generate Process Maps From Natural Language Text

By Sandy Kemsley on December 10, 2010

Back in May, I wrote about a cool new cloud-based service called RAVEN Cloud, which translated natural language text into process maps. As I wrote then: You start out either with one of the standard text examples or by entering your own text to describe the process; you can use some basic text formatting to […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BPA, BPM, Business process management, Cloud, modeling

Maintaining Consistency Across BPM Initiatives’ Content

Maintaining Consistency Across BPM Initiatives’ Content

By Sandy Kemsley on November 3, 2010

In a break from the usual lineup of academics and researches, Peter Braun of Bank of America was up next in the collaboration and consistency management workshop to present on maintaining consistency across BPM initiatives’ content. They use IBM’s WebSphere Business Modeler (WBM), Information Framework (IFW, effectively a set of reference models in an enterprise […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPA, CASCON, cascon2010 | 2 Responses

Real Time Monitoring & Simulation of Business Processes

Real Time Monitoring & Simulation of Business Processes

By Sandy Kemsley on November 2, 2010

My last session for the day at CASCON is to hear Alex Lau of IBM, and Andrei Solomon and Marin Litoiu of York University discuss their research project on real time monitoring and simulation of business processes (they also presented a related paper this morning, although I missed the session). This is one of the […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BI, BPA, BPM, CASCON, cascon2010

Metastorm New Releases: Collaborative Modeling with M3 and Smart Business Workspace Application Builder

Metastorm New Releases: Collaborative Modeling with M3 and Smart Business Workspace Application Builder

By Sandy Kemsley on July 13, 2010

Although we didn’t have a chance for a demo, I had a quick briefing with Greg Carter, Metastorm’s CTO, on the announcements that they made today. M3 Collaborative Modeling We discussed M3, their cloud-based collaborative process modeling tool. This is one of the first BPA/BPM offerings that I’ve seen on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BPA, BPM, Business process, Cloud, mashups, Metastorm BPM, Metastorm M3, social software | 2 Responses

Ravin’ About RAVEN Cloud: Generate Process Diagrams From Plain Text

Ravin’ About RAVEN Cloud: Generate Process Diagrams From Plain Text

By Sandy Kemsley on May 7, 2010

David Ruiz, who founded ViewStar (an early document imaging and workflow package from the 1980’s that I remember well, and was eventually absorbed by Global360) is now with Ravenflow, which specializes in natural language processing for visual requirements definition.
Their RAVEN engine is a natural language solution that they are applying to a couple of different […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BPA, Business process, Business Process Modeling Notation, Cloud, Natural language, Natural language processing, ravenflow, rulespeak, Unified Modeling Language

Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement: David Brown of Motorola

Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement: David Brown of Motorola

By Sandy Kemsley on February 23, 2010

I missed the first morning of the IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement conference in Toronto today, but with my usual impeccable timing, showed up just in time for lunch (where we had to explain the rules of curling to the American attendees). The first session this afternoon is with David Brown, a black […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BAM, BPA, business intelligence, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Data warehouse, IQPC BPM, LSS&PI, Six Sigma

ARIS Express Process Modeling Contest

ARIS Express Process Modeling Contest

By Sandy Kemsley on November 19, 2009

The ARIS online community is running a contest until the end of November to get people started with process modeling: create a process model (using their free downloadable ARIS Express process modeler, of course) that falls into the category “BPM is useful” or “BPM is fun”, and submit it on their site. I’m not sure […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ARIS, ARIS Express, BPA, Business process modeling, contest

Fujitsu Interstage BPM V11

Fujitsu Interstage BPM V11

By Sandy Kemsley on November 12, 2009

I had a briefing this week on Fujitsu’s just-released Interstage BPM version 11 as well as an update on their cloud platform. I’ll cover the cloud platform in another blog post, since this one is getting a bit long. Version 11 has a lot of new features for handling ad hoc, collaborative, knowledge-intensive work; this […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged BPA, BPM, Business process management, fujitsu

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