Comments for Column 2

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:18:58 +0000

Thanks to all for your comments!

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Dafna Levy

Dafna Levy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:36:50 +0000

Hi Sandy,

For me, your blog is like a GPS in the confusing reality of BPM ..
I admire your clear writing, and your brave criticism (when needed..)

Thanks…

Dafna

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Attila Osztrogonacz

Attila Osztrogonacz — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:19:34 +0000

Thank you very much Sandy for the experience. I look forward to see the next 50 years on Column 2.
Congratulations!

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Masayuki Otani

Masayuki Otani — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:05:26 +0000

Happy Birthday to Colum 2! And thank you Sandy, for all your passion and effort! I love this orange color and am also an ex-FileNet like you. That is enough reason for me to come here every day. Furthermore words here is kind a mix of iron & green chili pepper to my aging thought & inspiration….

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Madhu

Madhu — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:59:06 +0000

Congrats Sandy,

Great work…

Madhu

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Jeff Kristick

Jeff Kristick — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:43:52 +0000

Congrats Sandy. I enjoyed working with you while I was at TIBCO, and have continued to follow your good work. Good luck with the next 5 years!

Jeff

PS – Where is your commentary on Pega buying Chordiant?

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Pieter van Schalkwyk

Pieter van Schalkwyk — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:25:21 +0000

Congratulations Sandy. I am a keen follower of your blog and you have the best coverage of BPM events of anyone I’ve seen. I am really impressed with your effort and enthusiasm. Looking forward to the next 5 years.

Comment on But Customers Don’t WANT Three BPMSs by John Hart

John Hart — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:27:09 +0000

This issue becomes significantly more complex in light of the fact the many commercial (point) solutions are embedding BPMS functionality (often referred to as workflow) within their offerings. Effectively, these tools are becoming lightweight (sometimes heavyweight (e.g. ERP)) domain specific BPMS systems and as a result larger enterprises will effectively use many more than 3 BPMS solutions.

To reduce the likelihood of BPMS overpopulation, companies can opt to acquire all of their point solutions from a single vendor; in the hope that the vendor has done a world-class job of integrating the business processes (theoretically under a single technical stack). Vendor lock-in becomes a potential issue here – along with an inability to take a best of breed approach… (Of course any of the large vendors will try to convince you that there suite is the best of breed – but now were in the area of vendor zealotry).

Companies who prefer a best of breed approach for business systems could choose to adopt a general purpose BPMS (or the most capable embedded point solution BPMS) and use it to orchestrate the workflows/processes of all of the point solutions. Depending upon the degree to which a company is willing to implement redundant point solution functionality within the general purpose BPMS and the amount that they are able and willing to customize the point solution process to accommodate outside orchestration will determine how effective this approach can be…

I believe that for the foreseeable future, multiple BPMS systems within the organization will be a fact of life for most companies. As a result the need to build integration processes that orchestrate multiple systems will continue to grow as an important discipline.

It would be interesting if point solutions would ever consider getting entirely out of the process arena, providing only task oriented functionality designed to be integrated by any arbitrary BPMS process (presumably through webservices/SOA). This would allow companies to chose their BPMS and build their business processes to meet there needs… I realize I’m dreaming here…

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Ajay Khanna

Ajay Khanna — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:00:52 +0000

Congratulations Sandy,
Your blog is a really good source of information and inspiration. Thanks for all your efforts.

Best Regards,

Ajay

Comment on Five Years of Column 2 by Mike Gammage

Mike Gammage — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:48:03 +0000

Congratulations Sandy. I’ve only connected with your blog in the past year. Hey, I can’t say that I’ve agreed with everything you’ve posted – but it’s always interesting and easy to read, and that’s what makes good writing. Thank you!