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Avoiding SOA Security Anti-Patterns: Practical Planning for Success
As important as information security is, it seems to be one aspect of SOA that is too often overlooked. Without a well-thought out security plan, a SOA project will introduce critical vulnerabilities to the enterprise, it may require a large amount of time and resources in order to “retrofit” security later, and it may never be deployed at all due to accreditation failure when there are unmet needs related to mandatory security rules and privacy laws.
BPMS Watch: Which Way for BPMN?
To the surprise of nearly everyone, OMG’s Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) has emerged as far and away the most important standard in BPM, driven in large part by the BPM Suite vendors who recognize its value as a bridge between business-oriented process modeling and implementation design. Today, for example, BPMSs ranging from Appian, Savvion, and Lombardi to BEA, Oracle, SAP, SoftwareAG, TIBCO, and Vitria layer rely on BPMN-based modeling as the underpinning of their process implementation design.
Case Study: Constellation Energy Group
Find out how Constellation Energy Group uses Documentum to enable more efficient IT procurement and case management. By replacing paper requests, integrating mainframe applications and creating a corporate portal Constellation Energy Group was able to improve customer service, reduce processing time and errors and better protect sensitive information.
The Five Implementation Options to Manage the Risk in a New Process
How do you manage the risk and uncertainty concerning a new process design? Below are five options ranging from low-risk suggestions to ones that imply higher risks.
Role-Playing, Practice, and Simulation
The least risky option is to role-play, practice, or simulate the new design. To use a military metaphor, you wouldn’t be using live ammunition in this option. A professional football team employs this option (and calls it practice) Monday through Saturday. There’s no risk in role-playing, practice, or simulation.
How to Scale Your Process Documentation Initiative
A 10 Point Checklist is a good place to start when scaling your process documentation initiative.
- 30 minutes with your Executive Sponsor every week
- Dates and Deliverables Create Urgency
- Find the Right Documentation Tool – is yours up to the task?
- Build your Company’s Process Chart
- An Owner for Every Process
Download this white paper for items 6-10 and additional “how to” specifics for each item.
Introducing the Jiffy Lube Metaphor of Continuous Flow
Are your software implementation efforts woefully behind? Are your development schedules constantly being compromised by increased demands from other business units?
Does SOA Kill Capacity Planning?
In theory, computing capacity should be like water, if you need more just leave the tap running a little longer. All manner of virtualization, grid and attached processing technologies are being developed and deployed in an effort the make this theory a reality. Therefore it would be easy to assume that capacity management would not be an issue for SOA. Just deploy the services and SOA infrastructure on your tap water computing power with a few automation policies and capacity management ceases to be an issue.
What a lovely fantasy.
The real world, unfortunately, does not work that way.
Business Decision Management – Part 2
In Part 1 we discussed using business rules and analytics in the context of Business Decision Management to automate and improve operational business decisions. There are many ways to bring business rules and analytics to play in information systems and they can be used to improve business processes, Business Decision Management is emerging an extremely productive and effective method.
Which BPMS is Right for You?
Over the past 12 months, we reviewed 11 leading BPM Suites using a common analytical framework, and published the results using a common outline as The BPMS Report series, available for free from BPMInstitute.org. Based on that research, we now offer a comparative scoring of these offerings. Each BPM Suite was rated for both human-centric and integration-centric processes, and the human-centric evaluation was further broken out into two subclasses, production workflow and case management.
A 15-Minute Guide to Transactional Content Management
With Transactional Content Management, organizations can benefit from the use of BPM as well as imaging, document management and capture technologies to reach higher levels of operational agility, drive innovation and reduce operational costs across functional areas. In about 15 minutes, this guide will define transactional content management, explain why it’s important, outline the benefits, suggest a deployment framework, and provide resources for you to learn more.
U.S Government Better Utilizes IT to Improve Efficiency
The Federal Enterprise Architecture provides a platform for cross-agency collaboration and a discipline to guide IT investments, helping the federal government achieve its goals. BPMInstitute.org talked to Richard Burk, chief architect in the Office of Management and Budget, about the initiative.
BPM – Not for Dummies Anymore
BPM has evolved past the hype by delivering impressive business results. See how companies have solved business problems quickly through their BPM platform, and how some companies are pushing the envelope by taking BPM to the enterprise level.
BPMS Watch: How Much BPMN Do You Need?
In March, Michael zur Muehlen of Stevens Institute of Technology and Jan Recker of Queensland University published an article based on their analysis of BPMN diagrams collected in the wild, as it were, from consultants and practitioners.
EMC Documentum Process Suite 6.0
The 2008 BPMS Report by Bruce Silver, a leading independent industry analyst covering BPM technology, objectively evaluates the EMC Documentum Process Suite 6.0, describing it in depth and evaluating its strengths in four distinct process types or “use cases.” The report covers the product suite in 34 pages, loaded with diagrams and screenshots.
Adaptive Software – Systematically Responding to Emergent Environmental Change
This article is the first in a series of four to address the role of decisions and rules as an integral part of systems designed to adapt dynamically to changing environments.
Business Architecture: Scaling SCOR® to meet your needs
I have been in this business for 27 years and somehow never managed to do any supply chain work. So when a client asked me what I knew about the Supply Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR1 ), developed and endorsed by the Supply-Chain Council (SCC), I had to admit “nothing.” So, being a good consultant, I set about familiarizing myself with SCOR: I did some reading, downloaded some PDFs, and attended a workshop. Admittedly, this does not make me an expert. It does not even make me particularly knowledgeable. It only makes “familiar” with SCOR.
Scrumming for SOA
In today’s market place of continuous change, enterprise agility is the ubiquitous fuel for continuous competitive advantage. But agile enterprises demand not only agile infrastructures and systems, but agile processes as well. Clearly, service based architecture has emerged as an enterprise-wide architectural blueprint and agile development is shaping up as a formidable development methodology.
Business Architecture Survey Results
In December 2007 through January 2008, the BPM Institute surveyed the Business Architecture Bulletin list to gain insights into the nature of business architecture work. The survey’s goal was to identify who is performing business architecture work, ascertain related goals, determine the nature of the work being performed and identify service and tool preferences.
Capturing Ideas
For fun, I recently googled the aphorism, “Good ideas are a dime a dozen”. There were over 3,400 hits. This old cliche is on too many people’s minds! Most of the occurrences I looked at were fairly recent, from business or marketing articles, and most continued on with a “but …” line that suggested that what is really rare and valuable is the agency or person who can bring an idea to realization.
Clearly, there is recognition that getting a glimmer of an idea is not enough.
Taking the Process Map to the Next Level – The Visual Analysis Map
What if you could create a visual that showed your data gathering, problem solving and analytical thinking analysis all in one place? What if you could have a map which would enable you to talk to stakeholders and executives and get their input on problems, time delays, and key quality issues? That’s what the Visual Analysis Map can do for you and your team.
