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Helen S. Cooke is a PMI Board Member in Chicago and a Fellow of the global Project Management Institute. She has developed PMI standards and processes, as well as PMI’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model. As Vice President of Consulting Services for OPM Mentors in Chicago, she heads a consulting practice advancing the maturity of organizations to deliver strategic objectives through projects.

Cooke gave PMI’s definition of project management.

Over the past few years, a large number of organizations have initiated some type of Business Process Management strategy.

Business event management (BEM) and complex event processing (CEP) are two of the newest features to be provided in the business process management suite (BPMS) market. These expanded capabilities illustrate how the core capabilities of BPMS tools can provide the foundation for increasingly sophisticated integration solutions.

How much adaptability and agility do you need in your business? The answer to that question can drive the strategy of business process management (BPM) and service oriented architecture initiatives in your organization (SOA). The question itself is not easy to answer which is why most organizations do not achieve the flexibility they hope to achieve. Sometimes the granularity of the services cannot or are not defined at the right level.

Recently I had the chance to visit Tibco’s headquarters in Palo Alto for an in-depth briefing on the company and its place in the BPMS landscape.  For most people, Tibco is synonymous with message bus-based integration – the company’s name stands for The Information Bus Company – but like others who have evolved from EAI, Tibco today is trying to build its reputation around BPM, SOA, and Business Optimization (i.e., BAM and analytics).