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The BPM Scenario

April 29, 2011

Janelle Hill talked about the BPM Scenario and the role of BPM in creating intelligent operations. She had three things to cover – why is BPM more important than ever, business optimization and where to go next.
First, she reminded us of some key elements of BPM from Gartner’s perspective:

BPM involves a focus on processes as [...]

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IBM Business Process Manager 7.5

April 12, 2011

The new Business Process Manager 7.5 brings together the WebSphere Lombardi Edition and WebSphere Process Server in a single go-forward product. IBM wanted to bring the power of the WPS runtime and the simplicity of the Lombardi platform while significantly improving design time governance and end to end  visibility. The new product has:

Process Server
The evolution [...]

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The 3 B’s: Business Process, Business Rules and Business Intelligence

April 11, 2011

This post originally appeared as an article in my company‘s newsletter Decision Management News (sign up here).
Business Process, Business Rules, Business Intelligence – the three “B’s” that drive much of today’s IT investment. Often considered separate domains and separate sets of technologies, each B has its own center of excellence, its own methodology, its own [...]

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CEP and Decision Management

March 23, 2011

Paul Vincent of Tibco presented to the OMG Decision Modeling Notation day on the impact of event processing and real-time event handling on decision management. In particular the increasing need for true real-time, almost snap decisions. Tibco sees demand for these kinds of decisions across banking and trading, supply chains, telecommunications and more. Paul used [...]

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Standard processes, custom decisions

March 9, 2011

I gave a webinar on Smarter ERP with Decision Management and one of the tweets during the presentation – “Standard processes, custom decisions” prompted a few requests for more details. So, here goes.
When I talk to companies about their ERP implementations we often end up discussing the balance between standardization/globalization and flexibility/localization. These companies invested [...]

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Podcast (and webinar) on using analytics for smarter BPM

March 1, 2011

I am participating in the ebizQ BPM in Action event later this month – I am giving a webinar on BPM and Intelligent Operations – and I recorded a podcast on this topic with Peter Schooff. If you are interested in how analytics impacts BPM you can listen to the Smarter BPM podcast and register [...]

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Webinar: Smarter ERP with Decision Management

February 2, 2011

Large companies rely on their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other enterprise applications to manufacture, distribute and manage the products their customers need. The behavior of these operational systems is critical to how a company treats, and is perceived by, its customers, its partners and its suppliers. Yet these systems [...]

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Webinar: Analytics in Action: BPM and Intelligent Operations

January 29, 2011

[ March 10, 2011; 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm. ] I am giving a webinar on BPM and Intelligent Operations as part of the ebizQ BPM in Action series on March 10. Operational systems can certainly be made more efficient with BPM, but what about making them more effective? Increasingly, companies need intelligent operations that deliver a real improvement in effectiveness. BPM is the right [...]

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Future trends in business rules (with a little help from my friends)

January 20, 2011

I was presenting this week to a company that asked what trends I saw in business rules. I had my ow thoughts but I also reached out to some other experience business rules implementers. Here’s what we came up with:

A broader context for business rules

Business rules are increasingly adopted as part of a broader effort [...]

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IDC: Decision Management Market at $10B by 2014

January 18, 2011

The folks at IDC (Dan Vesset, Maureen Fleming, Steve Hendrick, Henry Morris and others) have just released Worldwide Decision Management Software 2010–2014 Forecast: A Fast-Growing Opportunity to Drive the Intelligent Economy – the first ever market sizing for “Decision Management”. This is exciting – it’s great to have a leading research organization like IDC pull [...]

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Workshop at the Gartner BPM Summit

December 21, 2010

[ April 28, 2011; 10:45 am to 1:45 pm. ] I am giving a workshop – The Decisions at the heart of your process – at the Gartner BPM Summit in Baltimore, April 27-29 2011. This workshop introduces the decision management approach and critical decisioning technologies such as predictive analytics and business rules. The workshop is going to be highly interactive. As well [...]

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Information Week Webinar – What, exactly, do you mean by business rules

December 1, 2010

[ December 9, 2010; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am presenting at an IBM/Information Week webinar What, exactly, do you mean by business rules on December 9th. I will try to clear up the confusion between rules and decisions, explaining why this distinction is critical if you expect to incorporate improved agility into your organization’s ability to respond to market demands, competitive actions [...]

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What, exactly, do you mean by business rules

October 8, 2010

Syndicated from ebizQ
Scott Cleveland had an interesting post this week on the single greatest benefit of BPM that included the information that 17% thought it was “Change business rules and processes without impacting underlying applications”. This focus on agility is not, perhaps, surprising but it prompted an interesting comment from John [...]

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IBM Business Analytics and Optimization #bas2010

September 28, 2010

Rob Ashe and Fred Balboni kicked off the IBM Business Analytics Analyst Summit with a presentation on IBM’s overall strategy for analytics – product and consulting in an integrated view. Of course this is IBM so everything starts with Smarter Planet – and Smarter Planet begins with how to get insight to drive better performance, [...]

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Where to start with business rules

September 26, 2010

I was working on my chapter for the forthcoming SAP BPM book (Applying Real-World BPM in an SAP Environment) and it occurred to me that I rarely write about where to start with business rules. After all, most IT departments like to do a low-risk first application of a new technique. So where to start?
Well [...]

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Oracle RTD Roadmap #oow10

September 20, 2010

The Oracle Real Time Decisions (RTD) roadmap began with a quick review of Oracle RTD (see my earlier post on the role of RTD in e-commerce) – an analytical decision service that sits between the operational and analytic applications of an organization so that operational business processes can be analytically enhanced. Crucially it combines prescriptive [...]

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Pegasystems and Chordiant – an update

September 14, 2010

I got an update from Pegasystems recently, mostly to talk about how the integration of Chordiant is going. I shared my original thoughts on the Pegasystems/Chordiant combination at the time but this was my first chance to chat with them since then.  Pegasystems continues to do well with its  12th record revenue quarter and climbing [...]

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Simplifying complex processes

September 9, 2010

Syndicated from ebizQ
There are lots of good reasons for adopting business process management as an approach, and a Business Process Management System as a technology. The benefits that can be gained are real but they can be undermined by over complex process designs. If the process you end up designing is the BPMN or BPEL [...]

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Lots of decision management events this fall

September 7, 2010

The fall event sequence is starting and early bird discounts are expiring so it’s time to plan your fall

Webinar – Simplifying over-complex processes September 9, 10am Pacific
Webinar – Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms September 23, 10am Pacific
Webinar – Implementing analytics? You need business rules October 7, 10am Pacific
RulesFest October [...]

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First Look – Alfresco Activiti

August 31, 2010

I got an update from the folks at Alfresco recently. This company is an open source content management project, begun by a team that left Documentum some years ago. The project now has about 2M downloads and is a commercial open source company with 1,200 paying customers – mostly among those typically comfortable with open [...]

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