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BPMS Watch: BPMS and Business Rules

By: Bruce Silver, Independent BPMS Industry Analyst

From its earliest beginnings back in the 1980s, process automation technology has always emphasized the notion of “rules-based” logic. Meanwhile, in parallel, a completely independent technology evolved for the enforcement and management of business rules, primarily for decision support. While many BPMS vendors have shamelessly promoted their own process models as examples of “business rules,” process engines and business rule engines – and their respective notions of rules – are actually very different.

Case Study: Process Thinking Applied to a Large Merger

By: Jon Huntress, Special Events Correspondent, BPM Institute

The $20 Billion Dow Chemical Company merged with the $6.5 Billion Union Carbide Corporation in 2000. The combined company had to merge thousands of operations worldwide in a short time. Stephen Graham was in charge of the merged supply chains. He analyzed the work processes, sub-processes and associated activities so the merger would work from the first day.

Dow Chemical used the "Most Effective Technology" (MET) concept, with alignment to the business strategy, the metrics, and the organization.

Graham pointed out that over 60% of mergers and acquisitions fail to create value.

Managing Processes for Performance: Applying Performance Management to your Business Processes

By: Colin Snow, Vice President Research Director, Ventana Research

Business Process Management (BPM) technology continues to grow and mature. Yet the breadth and complexity of business processes seems to be expanding at an even faster pace.

Driven by massive reductions of transaction costs, a new generation of business redesign possibilities is being exploited by businesses to gain competitive advantage.

The Case for Establishing a BPO

Contributed by:

Tom Dwyer, Editorial Director and current Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org

By: Tom Dwyer, Research Director, The Yankee Group

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

Is There a Source Rule Repository for Real Business Rule Management in your Future?

Contributed by:

Barbara von Halle, Managing Partner & Founder, Knowledge Partners International LLP

By: Janet Wall, President, Knowledge Partners, Inc.

More and more corporations are realizing the benefits of separating and externalizing their business rules from code, documents and even people’s heads. Fortunately, there are business rule harvesting methods (such as KPI STEP™) and BRE technology that is in place today that assist corporations in documenting, analyzing and implementing business rules in a separate technology. One critical issue to address is where an organization will store the business rules aimed at the business audience. What tools should they use for their source rule repository?

BPM: Think Strategically Yet Buy Tactically

Contributed by:

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

By: Janelle B. Hill, Vice President, Gartner

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

Accelerating BPM with Business Rules

Contributed by:

Barbara von Halle, Managing Partner & Founder, Knowledge Partners International LLP

By: Barbara von Halle, Founder, Knowledge Partners, Inc.

Business rules, whether they are stated explicitly or implicitly, contain all of your organization's business knowledge. Expressing and defining your business rules will allow the most benefit from a BPM initiative.

Barbara von Halle is the founder of Knowledge Partners, a company specializing in business rules services. Her most recent book, "Business Rules Applied" is the first book to contain a systematic approach for delivering business rules systems.

Panel: BPM Best Practices - Matching The Right Tools For The Job

Featuring: Ken Vollmer, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.

The side-by-side comparison is making a comeback you can line up anything from cars to televisions and compare them side by side. So why not do the same with vendor solution providers, well why not? This panel will allow attendees an opportunity to ask solution provider’s questions about their solutions live and hear what they have to say and how they stack up against the competition sitting right next to them. Moderated by industry analyst Ken Vollmer of Forrester Research, this session is sure to help you see where the similarities and differences are across BPM products and providers.

Panel: Transforming To A Process Driven Enterprise

Contributed by:

Tom Dwyer, Editorial Director and current Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org

Moderated by: Tom Dwyer, Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org and Research Director, Yankee Group

Time: 9:15 6-29-2005

Much has been written about the promise of transforming to a process-driven enterprise: better synergy between business requirements and information technology solutions, faster response to change, and improved visibility of business operations. However, there are roadblocks that prevent the design of a fluid organization that delay the realization of the promise. This panel will review the roadblocks, discuss lessons learned and present recommendations for realizing a process-driven enterprise.

So, What Is A Source Rule Repository Anyway?

By: Janet Wall, President, Knowledge Partners, Inc.

Organizations today are constantly reviewing IT projects to focus on those projects that will provide value to the success of the business. In addition, there are external pressures affecting business projects, such as the increasing rate of business change due to mergers and acquisitions, intense global competition, the opportunity and challenges of offshore systems development, and strict regulatory requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the USA PATRIOT Act and HIPAA. These increasing business pressures have led to the growing adoption of a business rules approach across industries.