I missed a session from longtime ILOG customer eBay but then I attended one on Agile Tax Management Using Rules and BPM by the Tax Administration Service of Mexico and EMC. The project being discussed was very successful, they say, and based on a combination of EMC’s BPM tool (Documentum) and ILOG’s rules. SAT, the [...]
BPMS
If, like me, you could not make it to the Gartner BPM Summit last week, here’s the next best thing. Three people I know well blogged about the conference. Sandy Kemsley, an independent expert on BPM, was the most thorough with David Straus (of Corticon) posting several times and a single post from Jim Sinur [...]
Kjell-Sverre Jerijærvi posted A SOA+BPM+CDM Ontology with a very nice graphic showing his point of view when it comes to the various aspects of Business Process Management (BPM), SOA and Event-Driven Architecture(EDA). Given his model, which I liked, Decision Services (wiki) are going to be in the Activity layer – not part of Entity Services [...]
The folks at OMG have just published the presentations from the recent SOA Consortium meeting. I blogged about some of these – a discussion of CIO concerns about SOA and Sandy Carter of IBM. You can find the following PDFs on the OMG site: Sandy Carter of IBM, Keynote on SOA Skills Judith Hurwitz of [...]
Mark Proctor, he of Drools fame, posted today on his vision for unifying rules and processes. Not content with describing me as “large” and “infamous” in a previous post, now he has to get my blood pressure up with this new post! Seriously, though, I am going to disagree with Mark’s basic premise. For starters, [...]
Sandy Kemsley posted about a presentation on this topic she saw at a recent conference by Michael zur Muehlen – his presentation is here (on slideshare) and is worth a visit. Sandy’s comments were, as usual, to the point and I only have one thing to add. Michael talks about using business rules to automate [...]
