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BPMN 2.0 from Visio Premium 2010

I mentioned in a previous post I had created a tool that converts BPMN diagrams from Visio Premium 2010 to BPMN 2.0-compliant XML. It was an interesting project because Visio itself does not internally “understand” the structure of a BPMN model. Sure, it can test many of the rules in the BPMN spec, but that [...]

BPMN Model Interchange

On my summer vacation I’ve been thinking a lot about the XML side of BPMN. While we usually think of BPMN as a diagramming standard, it is also – in principle – a model interchange standard, an XML format than can be exported from tool A and imported into tool B. BPMN 2.0, XPDL 2.1 [...]

Method and Style Workshop Update

Last Friday I had a run-through of my upcoming BPMN Method and Style Level 1 workshop. It was a good thing. I got some helpful feedback on the content, and I learned a few tricks of Microsoft Visio 2010 (having the Visio product manager in attendance didn’t hurt). It was a little rushed to squeeze [...]

Pega Update

Last week I had the chance to stop by Pegasystems in Cambridge for a briefing. As usual, I came away impressed with what they had to show. Pega is an anomaly in the BPM market. They always win the BPMS MQs and Waves, but 70% of their systems are sold to people who did not [...]

A First Look at TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM

In the past couple years TIBCO kind of dropped off my BPMS radar screen. They don’t put a lot into marketing, and in BPM I don’t think they had that much to say anyway. Last week I got a briefing on the new ActiveMatrix BPM, and my impression is TIBCO is finally back as a [...]

First Look at Oracle BPM Suite 11g

Today, Oracle officially announced Oracle BPM Suite 11g. To my knowledge, Oracle BPM Suite 11g is the first and only executable BPMN 2.0-based BPMS available today. I’ve had a chance to try it out, and it is really impressive. The product provides a united runtime environment for both BPEL and native BPMN 2.0, uniting two [...]

Intalio Launches Helium

Ismael Ghalimi of Intalio is still a young man but one of the founding fathers of modern BPM. Maybe the founding father. Anyway, today he briefed me on what he says he was aiming for all along, a project called Helium. It’s BPM, it’s a database application builder, it’s CRM and case management, document management, [...]

How Much BPMN Do You Need… Revisited

I tuned in to Sandy Kemsley’s webcast for Active Endpoints on How to Explain BPMN to Business Users today to see how this pet topic of mine is filtering out to the world. Longtime BPMS Watch readers will recall the spirited discussion I had with Michael zur Muehlen a couple years back, when he did [...]

BPMN Level 3 Method and Style – First Thoughts

Most of the changes between BPMN 1.2 and BPMN 2.0 have to do with extending it from a diagramming notation to a language for executable process design. Both my book BPMN Method and Style and the training that goes along with it deal with non-executable models, what I call Levels 1 and 2. Level 1 [...]

Site URL Changed

I apologize for the inconvenience, but after a few months of difficulty rooting out a hack to my BPMS Watch site, I had to rebuild it on another host. Since I use BPMS Watch as my main website now, I changed the URL to www.brsilver.com instead of www.brsilver.com/wordpress. Maybe not the best idea, since bookmarked [...]