BPM in Action

Real-Time Business Analytics: Talking Operational Intelligence With Dale Skeen

pschooff — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:16:41 -0500

Listen to my podcast with Dale Skeen, the Co-Founder and CTO of Vitria. Dale oversees the technological direction of Vitria and in this podcast we drill down on the rising importance of operational intelligence. Listen to or download the 6:57...

Should Business Rules Lead Process Management?

pschooff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:57:53 -0500

Just leave it to JP Morgenthal to stir things up. Over at the BPM Forum on ebizQ, we've got a bit of a controversy going on. The question is: Why are Business Rules Subjugated to Process Management When Business Rules...

Improving the Process of Process Management: Talking Live With IDS Scheer

pschooff — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:05:44 -0500

At the Gartner BPM Summit I met with Britta Hilt, Product Management, and Marc Redemann, Director of BPM Consulting for IDS Scheer. In this podcast, they discuss how most companies are now aware of BPM, so the issue is no...

How Starbucks Heated Up Promotions With BPM: Talking Live With Appian

pschooff — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:31:34 -0500

I recently recorded a podcast with Appian, Speeding Up the ROI in BPM, so it was nice to catch up with Samir Gulati, the Vice President of Marketing, at the Gartner BPM Summit and hear how the release of Appian...

The Business Side of BPM: Live Chat With Lombardi

pschooff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:32:26 -0500

At the Gartner BPM Summit I caught up with Jim Rudden, VP of Global Marketing for Lombardi. In this podcast, Jim drills down on the keys to successful BPM, and how Lombardi is shifting the paradigm from identifying business problems...

How BPMS Delivers Value to Today's Business: Live Podcast With Active Endpoints

pschooff — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:52:28 -0500

At Gartner's BPM Summit I sat down with Michael T. Rowley, the CTO, and Alex Neihaus, the VP of Marketing of Active Endpoints. Together, the two drill down on one of the key subjects of the summit, BPM and modeling,...

How Automated Process Discovery Revealed 22 Inefficiencies: Live Case Study From Fujitsu

pschooff — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:12:12 -0500

Last Spring I recorded this live podcast with Fujitsu, BPM Success Through Automated Process Discovery. At last week's Gartner summit, it was great to catch up with Fujitsu and get a real-world APD success story from Greg Mueller, Manufacturing Systems...

BPM and the iPhone: Talking Live With Global 360

pschooff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:14:52 -0500

Last week at Gartner's BPM Orlando Summit I spoke with Terry Schurter, Director of Product Strategy for Global 360. It was the day before Terry's big presentation, and most exciting, Terry had just come out with the book, The Insiders'...

How Process Performence Impacts the Business: Live Podcast With TIBCO

pschooff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:28:09 -0500

At Gartner's BPM Summit in Orlando last week, I sat down with Jeremy Westerman, head of BPM Product Marketing for TIBCO. Jeremy discusses why TIBCO has added Spotfire, a BI solution, to their BPM (also see this press release). Then...

The Three Core Drivers of BPM: Live Podcast With Pegasystems

pschooff — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:21:18 -0500

Last week at Gartner's BPM Summit in Orlando, I sat down with Alan Trefler, the Founder and CEO of Pegasystems. Alan had just given a well-received presentation, and he gives me a quick summary of what he talked about, and...

Accelerating BPM Deployment: Live Podcast With IBM

pschooff — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:04:39 -0500

My first podcast from the Gartner Business Process Management summit was with Amy Lipton, Director of Marketing for IBM. As you can imagine, IBM has a great many things going on with BPM (click here to read yesterday's press release),...

Off to the Gartner BPM Summit

ebizq — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:03:08 -0500

Bright and early Monday morning I am off to the Gartner Business Process Management Summit in sunny (I hope) Orlando, Florida. If you're also planning on being there, let's have a sit-down and see what you and you're company are...

BPM & SOA: Together or Separate?

ebizq — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:39:11 -0500

This issue has been bouncing around ebizQ and the blogosphere as of late, and I thought it might be interesting to compile everything that's been said into one blog. ebizQ ran this question in the BPM Forum, Do You Think...

Top Ten Tips for Making BPM Lean and Mean

ebizq — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:52:31 -0500

As this list was published by Forrester on Twitter, others chimed in, so there are actually 11 tips. Clay Richardson, who published this feature on ebizQ several weeks ago, is clearly gearing up for Forrester's Business Technology Forum. 1) Lean...

Should Businesses Build Their Own Processes?

ebizq — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:50:16 -0500

Jim Sinur wrote an interesting blog on a not too well kept secret: now that building processes has become so easy, that many professionals have started to build their own without any help from IT. On one hand, it simply...