In a continuing series evaluating the tools used by Business Process practioners, this article looks at Ascentn’s AgilePoint. Criteria for evaluation are ease of use, a short learning curve, and good collaboration features.
AgilePoint is a full-featured BPM suite. Ascentn distinguishes their market as one of “people and culture, not technology.” After looking into their products, I understand this to mean their focus is on the process practitioner.
Managing Director, Business Decision Management, Allegiance Advisory Group
Several years ago I was asked to be part of a panel discussing business process and business rules at one of the BrainStorm conference stops. The panel included James Taylor – noted thought leader and the man who coined the term “Enterprise Decision Management”. I had had the pleasure of talking with James on several occasions prior to this panel but found myself doing a double-take when he said “the dirty secret is that business analysts don’t really care about the rules”. Blasphemy! Isn’t that why we’re all here? Isn’t that what we do?
Business Architect Executive, Independent Consultant
Recently I described the role of the Business Architect in developing a formal Organizational Change Management program. As a result, I had an interesting conversation with a CIO. This CIO had a good understanding of and appreciation for business architecture.
Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant
This is the inaugural year for the BusinessArchitectureInstitute.org with its recent launch this past spring. The growth of interest and the demands for information surrounding Business Architecture (BA) have increased significantly over the past few years. BrainStorm BA conference attendees and BA training class students have benefited from seeing a new approach emerge for the enterprise. Hopefully, the reader has participated in one of this year’s BrainStorm events and learned of the many opportunities associated with the Business Architecture.
Cloud Computing is an emerging style of IT delivery in which applications, data, and IT resources are rapidly provisioned and provided as standardised offerings to users over the web in a flexible pricing model.
At a recent conference where I presented on the current state of Cloud Computing, I was pleasantly surprised at the level of genuine interest given the current low investment situation in which most companies find themselves.
Faculty Member BPMInstitute.org, Founder/CEO of Stratiza, Stratiza
Organizations are moving applications and infrastructure to servers on the Internet at an increasingly rapid rate and Cloud Computing – or whatever you call it – is changing the way people access information as well as they way they work and play. That is making the term ”Cloud Computing” more ubiquitous. Yet, as often happens with emerging technology waves, it is also making the term more confusing and vague.
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation
Migrating to an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a bigger decision than many companies realize. It creates the opportunity for central management and access points for all the services available in the enterprise. When determining the need and the method for enabling an ESB for services, there are several important considerations. The ESB can act as a simple access point in terms of acting as a proxy to hosted web services; it can orchestrate calls to many web services through languages like BPEL, and it can also house the web service code itself.
Business Relationship Manager - Product Lifecycle Management, Chevron Corporation
BPMS Watch readers know I am a big fan of OMG’s Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0, which has passed its first approval hurdle and is now in the Finalization Task Force stage. A major reason is that for the first time, BPMN has standardized the schema for XML interchange of process models.
Business Architect Executive, Independent Consultant
I am often asked to describe the role of the Business Architect; the role is new enough that most Resource Managers do not have a job description on file. Of course, the answer depends on the context within which the question is asked. Sometime I describe what the Business Architect “does.” Other times I describe what the Business Architect “accomplishes.” Yet other times the inquirer really wants to know what “skills” the Business Architect should possess.
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