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Are you on top of your Grid?
“Four years after the worst electric power blackout in United States history, the nation’s electric companies can now be punished if it happens again. Reliability standards for the nation’s power system quietly got teeth Monday, marking a major shift in how the U.S. electric industry is regulated. Utilities now face fines of up $1 million a day if they fail to meet any of 83 standards intended to keep the nation’s power grid healthy. But compliance was voluntary.
CERN Leverages BPMS Tools to Become More Efficient
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory located in the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva is most famous for employing the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. Coined the “Web”, the intent was to create a platform for information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world.
Collaborative Teams: a Work in Progress
So, you’ve read all the right books on lean, agile, and process improvement. You’ve drunk enough of the “quality” cool aid to believe that if everyone else “got it” things in your department or firm would be so much better; you can actually imagine how things could be faster, better and cheaper. If only others could see, taste and implement that same vision.
Data quality initiatives will boost your BPM project
Data quality is to the information society what quality of materials and products are to the production society. The quality of data in a business is a deciding competitive parameter, and this recognition is currently spreading among businesses throughout the world.
The technological development has generally, along with the development of ERP systems such as SAP, made it possible for businesses to produce, modify and disseminate enormous amounts of data. These data often form the basis for decision making, financial reporting and controlling liquidity, products, clients and suppliers.
RESTful Web Services Part II: Development and Testing
In my previous article, RESTful Web Services Part I, I introduced the key concepts behind REST and outlined an approach for designing RESTful web services. This article will cover implementing web services using Restlet and testing those web services using Apache JMeter.
Déjà Vu! From Project to Process Portfolio Management
The evolution of the BPM profession is leaving a strong impression of “Déjà vu”! Although less mature, the evolution of the Process Management discipline is comparable to that of the Project Management discipline.
BPM has the golden opportunity to develop more rapidly by leveraging the experience of its’ predecessor.
The Technology of Business Decision Management
In previous articles I introduced Business Decision Management (BDM), answered some of the most frequently asked questions about it and discussed operational business decisions. BDM involves the automation of operational business decisions and this leads us to the topic of this article – what technology do you need (and can you use) to implement BDM?
SOA and BPM – Taking the Enterprise to the Next Level
It is unfortunate but most companies find themselves always trying to catch up with technology advancements. Like many others they are burdened by a significant investment in legacy systems (and the infrastructure to support them) and find it increasingly more difficult to justify funding to advance or modernize their world.
Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World
Our interconnected world economy behaves like a huge stock market, and the volatility that comes with this makes the traditional business focus on efficiency less effective because it requires a level of predictability that no longer exists. In our high change, real-time economy responsiveness trumps efficiency. The profits from responsiveness are the basis for sustainable prosperity in this century.
Agile and responsive organizations are structured as networks of autonomous business units that harness the power of three self-adjusting feedback loops to respond appropriately as conditions change and new opportunities arise.
What Business Architecture tells you that you don’t already know
Every executive and business unit leader has a strategy, formal or informal. Every business unit and IT organization has a set of initiatives designed to achieve some objective. And every initiative was funded based on anything from a formal business case to informal common sense. Most of these initiatives are launched without the benefit of business architecture and some of these initiatives actually succeed in meeting their respective objectives.
So why does the enterprise need business architecture?
SOA and Evolution of Data into Information
This paper analyzes the differences between data and information, the importance of, and the justification for, making such a distinction and its relevance as a critical undercurrent of a successful SOA.
Improving Process Capability across the Enterprise with Enterprise SPICE
Suppose you want/need to improve performance across your enterprise. As you pursue organizational excellence, there are many improvement models, standards, and approaches available. Each might help with part of the business, or address selected compliance requirements, but using several separately can be expensive, confusing, and ineffective. How can an enterprise reap the benefits of the knowledge in a bewildering variety of standards and models? How can this be done efficiently and effectively?
Organizing for Innovation
How should information be organized? Better yet, how should it be organized for innovation?
BPMS Watch: Bringing Method to the Madness
As BPM takes hold, organizations are finally beginning to acknowledge the need for a common language for process description, something that allows a broad base of users spanning departments, geographies – both business and IT – to look at a process diagram and understand what it says. And in BPMN, the business process modeling notation standard from OMG, we finally have near-unanimous acceptance from tools vendors of what that language looks like.
Version 1.x of the standard is supported by the majority of BPM Suite vendors as a front end to process implementation tools, as well
RESTful Web Services Part I: Concepts and Design
An increasing industry backlash to the mounting complexity of the WS-* SOAP specifications is resulting in many organizations considering RESTful Web Services. In fact, a recent poll by Information Week found that 58% of IT professionals believed that SOA introduced more complexity and resulted in cost overruns. Some industry pundits, such as Tim Bray echo this sentiment declaring WS-* an embarrassing failure.
So why turn to REST?
Easy path for Project Managers and Business Process Managers to unify around BPM
The first in a series of Beyond Ordinary BPM Webinars, this session will introduce Project Managers and Business Process Managers to converged community of BPM without making them learn new skill sets. The session will outline a new unified approach to BPM (Business Project Management) and PPM (Project Portfolio Management).
The session will include a demonstration of the Savvion Tabular Process Analysis and Definition tool, which highlights this unified approach.
Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL
Modeling business processes for SOA and developing end-to-end IT support for these processes have become top IT priorities for many organisation. The SOA approach is based services and on processes. Processes are focused on composition of services and in that sense services become process activities.
This book – released on August 28, 2008 – will show you how to bridge this gap. It describes a pragmatic approach to business process modeling using the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and the automatic mapping of BPMN to the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), which is the de-facto standard for executing business processes in SOA. The book will also cover related technologies such as Business Rules Management and Business Activity Monitoring, which play a pivotal role in achieving closed-loop Business Process Management.
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Emerging Trends in Business Process Management
Technology is evolving daily as new tools, applications and use cases are developed and adopted by enterprises and business users. As a result, a new breed of Business Process Management (BPM platforms is emerging, leveraging these technologies and new paradigms. A small number of BPM companies are now offering the solution hosted or as Software as a Service (SaaS). Others are providing an integrated platform, combining all the tools necessary for deploying a BPM solution on one platform.
Define Your BPM Strategy Before Selecting a Tool
With the wide range of available tools on the market today together with the large number of white papers, articles and books on BPM, determining the correct solution for your organization can be daunting. With so much emphasis on the effectiveness of BPM tools for improving productivity, streamlining the value chain and gaining competitive edge, it’s easy to get caught up in all the hype and end up with a much more sophisticated and expensive solution than the business really needs.
Why Business Optimization Efforts Fail
Many business optimization initiatives struggle in achieving success and up to 70% fail for one key reason – a failure to recognize and manage the impact of the changes on the organization. In this roundtable we discuss why your initiatives may be at risk and what efforts to take to mitigate those risks.
Presenters:
Marilyn Martin, Director Business Architecture Practice, Collaborative Consulting
Ms. Martin is the business architecture practice director for Collaborative Consulting’s national practice. She has over 30 years of experience both in the private sector and consulting, and has created and managed the implementation of business solutions for leading companies in a broad range of industries and product lines. Marilyn has a keen ability to identify the strategic imperatives of the business, design supporting business architecture, and identify and plan the initiatives required to execute.
