1st
July
2009
Another session at Brainstorm, this time a case study from Genentech. Genentech has many policy documents that are interrelated, complex and lengthy and yet essential to operations – employees must understand them and follow them. As Genentech has made progress on its process management initiative it has found that getting the participants in the process [...]
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1st
July
2009
I presented on Using Business Rules to Make Processes Smarter, Simpler and More Agile at the Brainstorm conference. Here are my slides. I am going to record this one I think and post a recording soon also.
Smarter Simpler More Agile Processes
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management |
1st
July
2009
I am speaking at the Brainstorm conference in San Francisco and blogging a couple of sesssions. First up today is Michael Melenovsky (formerly of Gartner) on Accelerating BPM Adoption – creating a vision and establishing a roadmap. Michael made the great point that companies sometimes get started with BPM to try it out and then [...]
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25th
June
2009
I am speaking on Making Processes Simpler, Smarter and More Agile with Decision Management at the Brainstorm conference in San Francisco next week. If you are a member you can check out the presentation or, better yet, register to attend the event.
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Decision Management |
16th
June
2009
I got an update on Vitria for the first time in a few years a little while back. Vitria started back in 1994 with Enterprise Application Integration capabilities and has added Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring and ultimately Business Event Management/Complex Event Processing functionality over the last few years. They are using “Operational Intelligence” [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, BPM, Business Rules, Product News |
12th
June
2009
This week’s event calendar is below. The intent of this weekly post is to focus on web events coming in the next few weeks though I will start to add some longer term conference links. Anyone who knows about web or physical events around business rules, analytics, optimization or decision management, please let me know [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, News |
3rd
June
2009
Syndicated from ebizQ
Gary Comerford posted about Bex Huff’s identification of How one bad business process doomed GM. Like Gary I appreciated the analysis. However, the title is all wrong. This is not about a business process – I am prepared to bet that GM’s PROCESS for selecting and acquiring parts, signing up vendors etc was [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Decision Management |
19th
May
2009
Intalio hosted a launch today to position themselves as The Enterprise Cloud Company. Intalio turns 10 years old this year. They remain a privately held company with 500 paying customers and have passed 50,000 deployed sites in 52 countries. 35 employees and 20 contractors across 14 offices worldwide. Customers cover all industries and business is [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Product News |
7th
May
2009
Syndicated from ebizQ
I got a newsletter over the weekend with a very pertinent comment:
In our last newsletter, the Facilities Team announced that we were in negotiations for a facility. Unfortunately, undocumented rules in the city’s building code were discovered which put a kibosh on that location
This is interesting because I know for a fact that [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules |
6th
May
2009
A crossover session combining WebSphere BPM and Cognos BI. Linking BI and BPM allows you to leverage insight from your information across multiple applications and processes. You can extend process execution data to BI users, you can improve decision points within your process using BI and you can enhance business activity monitoring with BI. The [...]
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