Articles

Business Rules, Business Process, and Compliance

Author(s):

James Taylor

Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org and CEO and Principal Consultant, Decision Management Solutions

One of the key uses of business rule management systems (BRMS) and business process management systems (BPMS), is to help with issues of compliance. The growth of regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA, as well as long standing regulation in areas such as Insurance and banking means that more companies have to deal with compliance than ever before. Many companies are turning to technology to address the issues this growth of regulation brings.

There are many challenges that come with compliance, but three are particularly relevant when considering how technology might help.

BPM Success Requires a Change in the Mindset of Leadership

Author(s):

Andrew Spanyi

Faculty Member, DBizInstitute.org and Managing Director, Spanyi International

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

Accelerating BPM and BRs: Why, How and Who Is Doing What?

Author(s):

Barbara von Halle

Managing Partner & Founder, Knowledge Partners International LLP

Barbara von Halle is the founder of Knowledge Partners, a company leading clients through successful business rules projects through the licensing of KPI STEP, a Business Rule Management Took Kit. Von Halle is a pioneer in Business Rules and received the Outstanding Individual Achievement Award from the International Data Management Association. As a journalist, she wrote for Database Programming and Design Magazine and co-authored several books.

Business Architecture: Aligning Strategy & Deployment

Author(s):

Tom Dwyer

Editorial Director and current Faculty Member, BPMInstitute.org

William Ulrich

President, TSG, Inc.

Business architecture is, as my co-chair Ken Orr has said, the “missing link” in the architecture puzzle. While our first architecture conference this past spring focused on Enterprise Architecture, we found a groundswell of support from our attendees and analysts for drilling into the specifics of Business Architecture.

Build your SOA: Process and Methodology, Part I

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Introduction

SOA projects tend to be large initiatives with a lot of risk and potential reward associated with them. The Return on Investment (ROI) on a SOA project is sometimes very hard to quantify (and thus hard to sell), which brings about the need for a solid process and methodology to ensure the success of an SOA project.

A SOA is a set of tools, technologies, frameworks, and best practices that enable the quick and easy implementation of services.

Key Components of SOA

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

I’m excited to be joining the team of contributors to the SOA Institute. In my first article, I’ll provide my definition of SOA and describe what I think are the key components of an SOA. You will see that I take an enterprise view of SOA.

The Compliance Journey – Balancing Risk and Controls with Business Improvement

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

Vince Sumpter has over 20 years of experience in Performance Management, data warehousing, and related areas and sees a synergy between process management, performance management, and controls transformation. The new regulatory environment demands compliance, but most of the present efforts are manual and specific only to the rules with little regard to how the changes could improve the business. Sumpter sees process, performance, and controls all coming together to give new value to the enterprise.

Sumpter says there is a lot of buzz now about Sarbanes Oxley (S-O).

BPMS Watch: Standardizing Management of Process Performance

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

I recently attended an event where experienced BPM vendors, analysts, academics, and user organizations came to discuss what needs to come next in terms of technical standards, software capabilities, and overall business value from business process technology. The event was hosted by OMG, the standards organization behind the Business Process Modeling Notation standard used for process modeling and, increasingly, for business-driven process design.

Doing Business Architecture

Author(s):

Ken Orr

Founder & Chief Scientist, The Ken Orr Institute

It is hard for your organization to have an agile organization these days if your IT systems and infrastructure aren’t. Enterprise Architecture and specifically Business Architecture is aimed at helping organizations become truly agile.

A couple of years ago I wrote an article entitled “The 3 faces of Enterprise Architecture”.

BPM is Art as Well as Science

Author(s):

BPMInstitute.org

Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation

The release of the Academy Award nominations last January might seem to have little to do with business process management. But it does. In many ways, movies are the quintessential process industry.