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Converging BPM and Business Rules Maturity Models

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Tom DeBevoise , Co-Author of The Microguide to Process Modeling in BPMN 2.0, www.tomdebevoise.com

By: Tom Debevoise, author of "Business Process Management With a Business Rules Approach: Implementing the Service Oriented Architecture"

Readers of the Business Rules topic section have probably found Barbara von Halle’s writing on the Rules Maturity model RMM. The model depicts an enterprise’s staged understanding of business rules and their progressive benefits. The model starts with stage zero, no recognition of importance of formal processes of managing policies and corporate guidance through business rules. In short, the stages are:

SOA Governance: Adoption and Best Practices

By: Mike Rosen, Editorial Director, SOAInstitute.org

Governance has been defined as: “the art and discipline of managing outcomes through structured relationships, procedures and policies.” Governance plays an important part in the adoption and ongoing operation of any SOA initiative. It enforces compliance with the architecture and common semantics, and facilitates managing the enterprise wide development, use and evolution of services.

When discussing SOA governance, it is important to make sure that everyone is on the same page about what type of governance they are referring to.

BPM is Not the Same as BPR

Contributed by:

Janelle Hill, VP & Distinguished Analyst, BPM Research, Gartner Inc.

By: Janelle B. Hill, Vice President, Gartner

This article originally appeared in the members-only quarterly BPM Strategies Magazine. Join today to receive your own copy.

Transitioning to Services Engineering

By: Brett Champlin, President, ABPMP.org

This article originally appeared in the members-only quarterly BPM Strategies Magazine. Join today to receive your own copy.

In past columns, I have discussed the idea of services engineering, the importance of understanding businesses as service providers, and the characteristics of different types of services. This column looks at the challenges of measuring and managing process performance in services industries.

Applying BPM Principles to Restructure the Government Procurement Process

By: Brian P. Stern, Executive Director/Purchasing Agent for the State of Rhode Island

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

The Marriage of Process and Data Governance: Key to BPM and SOA Initiatives' Success

By: Nancy Bilodeau, Principal Consultant, SAIC and Lak Singh, Practice Lead, Enterprise Data Management, SAIC

Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives can either be easy or difficult depending on your approach.

At first glance BPM and SOA offer a very good value proposition. However, the more you learn, the more you discover that everything is not exactly as expected.

BPM and SOA initiatives are made up of process and data. Too often, a lack of focus in one area or the other occurs and has pervasive effects on business results.

The Greatest Innovation Since the Assembly Line

By: Michael Hugos, CIO at Large

The most profound innovation since the assembly line is staring us right in the face. But we don’t see it because we are so busy looking for something else. For most of us the word “innovation” still conjures up images of amazing new gadgets such as technology to turn water into gasoline, black boxes to project moving 3D holograms from our TV sets, and bio-tech breakthroughs that reverse the aging process.

Committing to the Business Architecture

Contributed by:

Ralph Whittle, Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant

By: Ralph Whittle, Co-author of "Enterprise Business Architecture: The Formal Link Between Strategy and Results"

BPMInstitute.org and BrainStorm Group hosted Business Architecture (BA) events at their conferences in San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and New York in 2006. Interest in BA across all industries is growing with attendance at all BA presentations increasing. The conference attendees are coming prepared with excellent questions, expecting answers and seeking information about BA initiatives.

BPMS Watch: Measure Then Model? An Alternative Process Lifecycle

By: Bruce Silver, Principal, Bruce Silver Associates

BPM users are familiar with the process lifecycle. It starts with process modeling. Business analysts document the as-is process, and analyze its shortcomings – handoff inefficiencies, exception handling, inconsistent application of policies and rules. From the model they can define KPIs for the process and estimate their value using simulation analysis. Then they model proposed process improvements, and project the expected benefit using simulation, before committing resources to the implementation.

The next step in the standard lifecycle is process design.

Can your Enterprise See, and Mashup, the Emerging Web?

By: David S. Linthicum, Author of "Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services"

Web 2.0 is one of those marketing words I don't like to use that often, but unlike SOA 2.0, the Web 2.0 is a reality. It's really a change in platform at its essence, but there are also many social issues there as well...information sharing, collaboration, and social networking to name a few. But can your enterprise see the emerging Web?

What's important to remember is that there is a huge resource that is being created on the Web these days.