Several of the contributing authors to the exciting new book “The Business Rule Revolution” meet to discuss their view on the state of the revolution. Each provides an overview of their contribution to this anthology of real-world experiences.
Barbara von Halle: Barbara is the primary author of the seminal text “The Business Rules Approach” that serves as the foundation for Business Rule Practices today.
If you think SOAs will reduce the need for developers, you’re dead wrong.
There is a lot of talk about how SOA will significantly lower the need for developers; thus the savings of SOA. This will be accomplished through the promise of reuse that’s driving many toward the SOA light. However, I’m not sure we’ll see a reduction in development with the advent of SOA, but perhaps a redistribution of talent in the longer term. At the end of the day, the reason for leveraging SOA is agility. Reuse and development savings are a secondary benefit, if they happen at all.
A central promise of BPMS is that process improvement can be projected and optimized in advance of implementation, using process modeling’s simulation capability. By including simulation analysis, process modeling tools can not only define the structure of the proposed to-be process but project its expected ROI. For that reason, nearly all BPMS offerings today include some form of simulation tool. But are these tools really fulfilling the promise? Not yet, in my view. Let’s look at what they do, and what’s still missing.
First, let’s deconstruct the promise.
According to a recent survey in The Economist, CEOs and CIOs from over 1,000 companies worldwide agree that innovation in business processes is a greater source of competitive advantage than innovation in particular products or services.
In part one of this article, I provided an introduction to applying the concept of sustainability to business rules.
It’s happening in every industry: increasing regulations, demand for better, faster customer service and ever-fiercer competition. The healthcare industry is not immune to these same forces, and often these challenges are exacerbated by greater requirements and expectations of an industry that is nonetheless expected not to profit excessively from its “customers.” But, no one is lessening the strictures of HIPAA, and patients continue to ask why it is that Americans are paying more than any other country for their healthcare and getting less.
Join us to understand how using BPM within a Digital Business Network (DBN) can drive innovation and create a competitive advantage. Forrester describes ‘Digital Business Networks’ as collaborative value chains, comprised of companies focused on creating timely, customer-oriented and process-centric innovations. By breaking down siloed monolithic enterprises, DBN uses a services oriented approach to accommodate change without compromising security.
How can the concept of a DBN help BPM Suites evolve, and how can BPM help evolve the DBN?
In the last column, I introduced the topic of services engineering and why it is going to be so important. The vast majority of the labor force is employed in services today, and nearly 80 percent of our GDP is from services industries.
George Thomas is the Enterprise Chief Architect at GSA. He focuses on enterprise wide architecture using open standards based, process-centric, and service oriented modeling methodology and tools.
Thomas began his talk by covering grammar and modeling formalisms from selected GSA adopted industry standards. These were presented as a framework for developing the executable service oriented business process models, which can be automatically deployed.
The GSA uses a tool from Data Access Technologies that integrates CCA/FEA design and J2EE runtime environments.
George Thomas is the Enterprise Chief Architect at GSA. He focuses on enterprise wide architecture using open standards based, process-centric, and service oriented modeling methodology and tools.
It’s conventional wisdom in business that 80% of the problems are caused by 20% of the work – the “exceptions.” In BPM, therefore, you’d think that exception handling would be a critical focus of process modeling and analysis. In most cases you’d be wrong.
Certainly the designers of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) standard at BPMI (now part of OMG) had exception handling in mind from the start. BPMN introduces to process modeling the notion of intermediate events.
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