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  • IBM buying BPM vendor Lombardi

    Posted December 16, 2009 - 9:40 am

    IBM on Wednesday said it has signed a deal to buy Lombardi, an Austin, Texas, BPM (business process management) vendor. Terms were not disclosed.

  • AIIM BPM Industry Watch 2009 Report – Released

    Posted December 12, 2009 - 4:33 pm

    AIIM have released their annual report on the state of the BPM industry which is based on the experiences of over 450 BPM users within the AIIM community, this report details how long the payback period might be and the likely return on investment (ROI) across a number of potential process types.

  • HandySoft Global to grow its business in Canada

    Posted December 3, 2009 - 10:10 am

    HandySoft Global Corp., a U.S.-based vendor of business process management software, is "bullish" towards the market place as it prepares to establish a partner presence in Canada by next year, an executive said.

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    Ten things you need to know about SharePoint Server 2010

    Posted November 19, 2009 - 11:25 am

    Based on our hands-on testing of the beta version of SharePoint Server 2010, here are 10 things you need to know.

  • Microsoft to align BizTalk Server with Azure's AppFabric

    Posted November 19, 2009 - 10:20 am

    Microsoft Corp. plans to make its Business Process Management (BPM) software, BizTalk Server, work closely with the just-announced AppFabric .Net application server within the next few years.

  • Information Management, BPM and Integration: Achieving Cost Efficiency in the Financial Sector

    Posted October 28, 2009 - 12:01 pm

    Data housed in customer relationship management (CRM) software, accounting, human resources, and other applications has limited value if it’s not reused efficiently everywhere it’s needed.

  • Tibco brings DIY BI report generation to BPM

    Posted October 7, 2009 - 5:40 am

    With Tibco's iProcess Spotfire, users can gather data on business process metrics and have personalized reporting and analytics

  • Adobe puts LiveCycle in the cloud

    Posted October 5, 2009 - 2:10 am

    Adobe Systems is preparing an update to its document-based workflow system, LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, that can be hosted in the Amazon computing cloud and accessed on the go from smartphones, the company said Monday.

  • SAP, Salesforce.com make apps with Google Wave

    Posted September 30, 2009 - 5:10 pm

    Google's Wave communication and collaboration platform is getting early interest from enterprise application vendors like Salesforce.com and SAP.

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    My favorite PDF automation

    Posted September 3, 2009 - 1:28 pm

    Modest programming, immense return

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    Free BPM Modeling Tools

    Posted July 14, 2009 - 4:11 pm

    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.

  • How BPM Paid Off for Wells Fargo

    Posted June 1, 2009 - 10:26 am

    In 2007, Wells Fargo's Enterprise Technology Architecture and Planning (ETAP) group took a novel approach to establish BPM and reap its benefits by creating a community of practice to champion it.

  • BPMN Tutorials, Patterns and Resources

    Posted April 20, 2009 - 5:01 pm

    Following on from my earlier post on BPMN modeling related reference material, I thought I would also share this animated quick start BPMN modeling and patterns tutorial I came across...

  • Google secure data tool ties Apps to company data

    Posted April 8, 2009 - 3:45 pm

    Google's new secure data connector could result in a slew of tie-ins to other enterprise applications.

  • How NBC Universal Puts BPM To Work

    Posted March 30, 2009 - 11:22 am

    NBC Universal (NBCU) tackled its business process management (BPM) challenges by creating a team to work hand in hand with IT and operations to help improve its customer-facing processes.

  • The Open Group TOGAF 9 makes its debut

    Posted February 11, 2009 - 8:34 pm

    The Open Group released TOGAF 9 earlier this month. All the details are available on the Open Group website for those who are interested. This post briefly shares the highlights and differences but is not a complete indepth analysis.

  • Mobile tech 2010: Trends that will change our lives

    Posted February 4, 2009 - 11:10 am

    The past two years have been exciting ones for mobility, with the dawn of netbooks, 4G communications and the first smartphones without keypads. The next two should be just as attention-grabbing, if not more so, as a slew of new technologies make workers more productive on the road.

  • Microsoft folds BPM software into SharePoint Server

    Posted January 28, 2009 - 5:23 pm

    Microsoft said Tuesday that it was folding its business process management (BPM) software, PerformancePoint Server, into its popular SharePoint Server product.

  • 7 Top Tips for Writing Blog Articles

    Posted December 31, 2008 - 1:28 am

    Business blogging is a great way to build a following and shorten the sales process. Here are 7 ways to quickly generate your own content.

  • What is Human Process Management (HPM)?

    Posted December 18, 2008 - 3:50 pm

    Human processes are business processes that generate a business outcome that is heavily dependent on interactions between people. These are also called “tacit interactions” by economists, which is an attempt to differentiate between routine transactions and interactions that rely heavily on judgment and context. These “tacit interactions” are the most prevalent kind of business processes in which knowledge workers take part.

  • Anatomy of a Web Service Contract

    Posted December 17, 2008 - 4:07 pm

    For Web services to succeed as part of SOA, they require balanced, effective technical contracts that enable services to be evolved and repeatedly reused for years to come. Now, a team of industry experts presents the first end-to-end guide to designing and governing Web service contracts.

  • Zoho releases SQL-based data-access service

    Posted December 2, 2008 - 4:37 pm

    Zoho, maker of an on-demand suite of business and productivity applications, on Tuesday announced CloudSQL, a new service that lets developers use the ubiquitous SQL to connect Zoho data with other cloud-based or on-premises applications.

  • BPM Adoption and Delivered Value/ROI - Market Research and Analysis

    Posted November 21, 2008 - 12:55 pm

    Understanding of how Business Process Management (BPM) can deliver value to business is becoming increasingly well understood by businesses and IT even though the following points seem to indicate why there may be slow adoption across some organisations.

  • Being Human - A Natural Inhibitor to BPM Adoption?

    Posted November 10, 2008 - 5:12 pm

    Recently I posted on how an itterative approach to BPM development and implementation can deliver incremental business value. This approach is very tightly aligned with that of change management in an organisation.

  • OMG-Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB)

    Posted November 8, 2008 - 2:41 pm

    Not sure if anybody has noticed the BPM certification programme that the OMG is developing and made mention of earlier in the year? It is currently in Beta testing and according to the The OMG-Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB) Beta programme website it should be rolled out toward the end of 2008.
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