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July 1, 2008

Setting high impact KPIs to get real value of BPM investments

One of the key benefits of BPM solution is that it provides insights into the performance of business processes through Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), and enables process analysts to identify impediments & bottlenecks in performance of the business processes. While that sounds very exciting, getting pointers to the real bottlenecks is not easy. ......

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June 5, 2008

Does BPM mess up SOA?

I have always thought of SOA & BPM as two complimentary solution approaches. There are numerous articles that talk about interplay and synergy between SOA & BPM, and this has become so obvious that any new article on this topic doesn’t even draw my attention. However I recently stumbled upon a blog post titled ‘Why BPM screws up SOA’ by Steve Jones that really caught my attention. I completely disagree with Steve ...

 

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May 27, 2008

BPM – Moving beyond modeling to complete process management

In recent years the BPM space has evolved significantly. During the past 4 years BPM license revenue has grown nearly 100% yoy. As per leading analysts firms, BPM is the next big wave of the IT industry. Currently over 50 vendors claim to offer BPM suite that would transform clients business by making the systems agile. However, the reality is that many enterprises, and even product vendors, are focused mainly only on Business Process Modeling rather than having holistic approach for entire BPM lifecycle.

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