BPMS Watch - BPM and Its Enemies

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Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) has become an essential technology component of a Business Process Management (BPM) solution.  After all, what could be more helpful than viewing real-time information about process performance? How about the ability to automatically trigger corrective ac...

Are you engaged in or investigating an enterprise wide business process analysis initiative? Need to convince your Visio process modelers to migrate to a more structured environment?

The success of your business process analysis and enterprise architecture depends on the quality of your models. Bu...

A discussion of the business value of SOA and composite applications is actually two discussions. First, what is the business value of composite applications? More specifically, how do composite applications help you streamline business processes, reduce operational costs, increase customer service ...

Many Business Process Management (BPM) vendors talk about how their software allows you to optimize processes with just the click of a button.  It’s a nice dream to believe in this “Nirvana” extending to processes outside your immediate scope of control, but the reality is that most people find...

During this webinar Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director from Burton Group and acknowledged SOA expert, discusses her three most critical recommendations for moving from SOA pilot to full production.

Join us and learn how combining SOA governance with time tested techniques of m...

This round table is the first of a six-part Round Table Series exploring the relationships that exist between BPM, SOA, BR, OP, and BA.

Speaker Bios

Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group and Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org

Tom Dwyer is the VP of Research for BrainStorm Group, the Edito...

Today’s telecommunications industry is virtually unrecognizable from the one of ten, five, even one year ago! The convergence of voice, data, content, and mobile services has created a communications mega-industry, where traditional telecom providers are vying against non-traditional competitors for...

Much has been written about businesses transforming into “agile enterprises.” But beyond the pie in the sky buzzwords, what does this mean for companies striving to bring world-class goods or services to the market? In a global economy, many feel as if they are in a race to the bottom – squeezi...

Creating a unified data architecture is a key component of any enterprise SOA initiative. Rapidly building business services requires achieving a common vocabulary across disparate business systems (i.e. common definitions of "customer," "order," "product," etc.).

This Round Table will explore the...

Today's BPM users are asking for a seamless, expanded definition of BPM, now commonly referred to as BPMS, or BPM suites. Ironically, it is within this vision of horizontal expansion that something even more dramatic is taking place. Business Activity Monitoring has predictably given way to Busines...

According to a recent survey in The Economist, CEOs and CIOs from over 1,000 companies worldwide agree that innovation in business processes is a greater source of competitive advantage than innovation in particular products or services. Join us to learn best practices for using the power of a Busin...

This webcast - the fifth in a five-part series - will review the findings of BPMInstitute.org's State of Business Process ManagementSM Research with a specific focus on the issues, challenges and solutions associated with BPM-applications in the Financial Services sector. It will explain how Financi...

Join us to understand how using BPM within a Digital Business Network (DBN) can drive innovation and create a competitive advantage. Forrester describes 'Digital Business Networks' as collaborative value chains, comprised of companies focused on creating timely, customer-oriented and process-centric...

VIP Auto, Inc. has been using Avorcor's SOA4SCL (SOA for Supply-Chain and Logistics) to modernize their existing warehouse and distribution capabilities and to prepare their organization for integration with a new host system. This session will provide attendees with an overview of how SOA is being ...

It’s happening in every industry: increasing regulations, demand for better, faster customer service and ever-fiercer competition. The healthcare industry is not immune to these same forces, and often these challenges are exacerbated by greater requirements and expectations of an industry that is no...

This webcast - the fourth in a five-part series - will review the findings of BPMInstitute.org's State of BPMSM Research with a specific focus on the issues, challenges and solutions associated with BPM applications in the Government sector. It will explore the government desires to streamline the "...

The Service Oriented Enterprise is a new approach in business. Each party or participant in service orientation sees themselves as a service provider and consumer, in an increasingly well connected global economy. This is not new: businesses have been serving their clientele since time immemorial. B...

Although industry standards exist around Web services, there are no standards around the technology capabilities needed to achieve success with SOA or how and when to implement them. Join webMethods to learn what’s needed to deliver and support enterprise-class service-oriented business applications...

This webcast – the third in a five-part series – will review the findings of BPMInstitute.org's State of Business Process ManagementSM Research with a specific focus on the security issues, challenges and solutions associated with BPM. It will explore the desired integration among Document Security ...

In July 2006, BPMInstitute.org initiated a survey of its 24,000 member community to gain an understanding of how enterprises across a range of industries are pursuing business process innovation and improvement and to what degree these activities are strategically aligned to the companies’ business ...

Topic: Setting up a Center of Excellence for Business Process Management

• The need for process management

• Evaluating service offerings

• Tools needed to start a CoE

• Partnering with your SOA team

• Defining a framework and best practices

o Process architecture

o Documentation standards

o Process repository

• Roadmap

• Overcoming challenges faced in...