Comments on: BPM Delivers Better Practices and Best Practices

By: Tapping into Better Practices by Watching Knowledge Workers

Tapping into Better Practices by Watching Knowledge Workers — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:39:13 +0000

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By: Bernard Debauche

Bernard Debauche — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:33:26 +0000

Yes, some think BPM means “best practice management”! It certainly provides agility to the information system, and makes it more responsive to business changes. But the process approach is not enough: my experience has showed me that it is the architecture that delivers agility, not the process approach itself. A badly architected process with a bad IT architecture can create the worst agile information system!

Bernard Debauche
VP EMEA Marketing
Axway

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Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:39:51 +0000

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By: Gagan Saxena

Gagan Saxena — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:17:42 +0000

Business agility is key today and I agree that it is better to get into production with something that works and evolve from there. BPMS’ allow this to happen without risk of application lock-in and I am a fan of that approach.

The only issue that I see is that BPMS’ are one half of the solution – giving IT and some savvy Biz Users a lot of advantage, but not directly addressing the need to change business rules rapidly and easily. In a perfect world, a Business Rules Management (BRMS) needs to be the other part of the solution. I have seen quite a bit of the either/or debate between BPMS’ and BRMS’ and fail to see why that is even a question.

@gagan_s