Jim Sinur

With the recent explosion of the use of rules for agility in many markets, the need for rule management across multiple rule technologies is a growing desire.
When we first asked our clients about having to manage rules across multiple rule technologies/engines, we saw that only about 15% of our rule enabled clients had a need [...]

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The traditional line is more about sugar plums, but that is not for me. I have this love of fractals that goes beyond the norm. I find their form intriguing and worthy of artful expression. I imagine that the star that guided the wise men in the traditional Christian Christmas story was a fractal in [...]

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BPM portends to make process work easy and some activities / technologies are fairly simple to work with in process improvement. Process modeling is a great example of this principle. While getting the correct process model and getting all stakeholders to agree to it is certainly a challenge, but the BPM tools supporting process modeling [...]

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One of the major claims of many of the BPMS, BPA and BRE vendors is that business professionals can easily use their technology without the aid of IT professionals. The problem with blanket statements like this is that it can’t be completely true. The devil is in the detail.
A really good case can be made [...]

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With all buzz about cloud computing, one would expect that SaaS and BPM would be a logical combination. There seems to be a number of logical opportunities and connections between these two arenas.
From the cost savings perspective, there seems to be a natural opportunity for small organizations to leverage BPM using SaaS model. It seems [...]

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Until now most organizations were faced with a build or buy applications decision. It was pretty apparent that purchased applications dominated the early part of this decade. Applications were best practices that could be replicated in organizations. Application implementation times promised to be pretty quick and lower than the traditional maintenance costs of 20% of [...]

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Today BPM is gleaning significant benefit for straight through processing and for heads-down process workers. I believe that there are still benefits available in these gold veins for organizations. I also believe that these areas are ripe for organizations, going forward, to pull themselves up by their boot straps as we work our way out of [...]

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