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Putting Business Information Architecture to Work

Contributed by:
Jim Rhyne, Principal Consultant, Software Renovation Consulting

In a previous article, we talked about using web semantic technologies such as OWL and SBVR to create conceptual models of a business. In this article, we explore an example of using a Business Information Architecture to solve a business/IT problem. The architecture exercise helped clarify thinking about the possible solution forms and served as a model for the corresponding IT application and data changes.

Can SharePoint 2007 be my Enterprise Business Process Management (BPM) Solution?

SharePoint 2007 provides a basic set of business process management (BPM) functionality. Many IT shops and business users who have SharePoint 2007 running in their environment may be wondering what BPM capabilities SharePoint 2007 does have, and how it stacks up to traditional packages that promote themselves as complete BPM solutions.

Most Enterprise BPM solutions are comprised of the following high level components:

Six Simple Steps for Accelerating and Perfecting Requirements: A Framework, a New Model, and Visualization

Contributed by:
Larry Goldberg, Managing Partner, Knowledge Partners International

Software engineering is a much younger discipline than are other branches of engineering. We see this in the continuing evolution of attitudes and approaches to requirements. In early days, there were no requirements. In later days, there were volumes of approved textual statements. Eventually, there were formal models. Today, sometimes models and statements are merely interim deliverables because code becomes the requirements.

The Strategic Promise of SOA to Supply Chain Management

Contributed by:
Tom Dwyer, Vice President, Research, Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org

Attaining superior efficiency, high visibility and customer satisfaction across the entire supply/demand chain is essential for all organizations in today’s competitive markets. Supply chain efficiency has profound implications on an enterprise’s ability to meet its customer’s demands, the enterprise’s reputation, and the overall financial success of the enterprise. However, an enterprise’s supply chain also presents the single biggest opportunity for operational inefficiencies in any enterprise.

Business Rules in the Process Age

In a previous article “Integrated Business Management in the Process Age”, I discussed the dawn of the process age which follows on the Information age. In that article I stated that an organisation’s maturity in the Process Age can be plotted against its ability to utilise and manage the five basic capabilities for high performance: People, Guidance, Processes, Information and Resources.

The Value of Relationships

When you grapple with a new idea, where do you start? Most people concentrate on the whole or the parts - either the entity that is the overall idea or the entities that compose it. That we approach ideas in this manner and don't think about them instead as sets of relationships among components seems to be natural. Relationships, if we get around to them at all, are secondary considerations.

Risk and Compliance - embedding specific requirements in the Target State Business Architecture

Contributed by:
Bernard Morris, Business Enterprise Architect, VicRoads
Risk and Compliance

Many companies across the globe are facing up to a whole new world where risk and compliance assurance must now be supported by reliable controls over which the level of transparency required to be provided by the business to the governance process is considerably onerous.

Furthermore the requirements on the company are written into statutory obligations and carry heavy penalties for those that fail to deliver.

Shaping Complex Ideas

Good ideas usually have system-like characteristics. That may seem strange, considering how we have been indoctrinated all our lives to believe great ideas are simple, complete and self-evident once conceived (think solutions to problems or opportunities for enrichment). Examples of these abound, many now urban legends.

The Process Practitioner: An Independent Review of Metastorm ProVision

Contributed by:
Karen Tricomi, Process Architect, Financial Services Industry

In a continuing series evaluating the tools used by Business Process practioners, this article looks at Metastorm ProVision®. Criteria for evaluation are ease of use, a short learning curve, and good collaboration features.

What role should SaaS play in your BPM strategy?

Contributed by:
Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director, MWD Advisors

Driven by the continued success of companies like Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model has become an increasingly important element of the mix of technology sourcing options available to enterprises over the past two years. Recently, a number of vendors have introduced SaaS-based BPM technology tools and platforms, eager to “surf the wave” and ensure that they don’t miss out on any opportunities, should enterprises start to shift wholesale to using the SaaS model for their IT capabilities.

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Tom Dwyer
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BPMInstitute.org
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