Jim Sinur

I had the pleasure to speak at the Business Rules Forum in Las Vegas this week as the opening keynote. I spoke on the linkage of Patterned Based Strategy (PBS) to Business Rules Management (BRM) and Business Process Management (BPM). The audience seemed to be challenged to start thinking how to link the grass roots [...]

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We are at a significant point in the maturity of BPM as a management discipline. The organizations that have been leading the charge in BPM are taking it to a new level, hence my previous posting on What’s Hot in BPM? http://blogs.gartner.com/jim_sinur/2009/10/22/whats-hot-in-bpm/
There is also a new wave of fast followers that are lined up to [...]

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In the last few weeks we have completed a successful BPM conference and a rousing Fall Symposium/IT Expo. While BPM is not yet scorching the earth yet, there are some hot trends and questions I have been sensing by listening to my clients and team mates. I would like to give you a quick run [...]

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Oracle wants to engage the business user in BPM. With that as goal, Oracle has set out to have a more business friendly BPM experience at several levels. First the modeling environment is greatly improved, secondly the BAM environment is usable plus somewhat seamless and finally the integrated rules environment is finally usable by non-IT [...]

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I arrived on Wednesday during the mega rock concert featuring Aerosmith, Roger Daltrey of the Who and the Whalers. Unfortunately I was dining the Oracle BPM folks, but my tastes run more European these days with the likes of Stratovarius and HIM from Finland. You knew it was going to be Larryriffic with Ellison’s racing [...]

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The road to BPM is now usable with the SAP offerering, but get ready for some steerage. Like anything in this world there is “good news” and “bad news”. On balance, I would say that there is more good news than bad for current SAP customers. Until recently SAP was struggling to convince folks that [...]

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I have never been to TechEd before and I have not been to the new Phoenix Civic Center since a recent redo. Even though the PCC is in my home town, I have not had a reason to visit it until now. I was quite impressed with the expansion. It is certainly a top flight [...]

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While BPM might just be one of the easiest classes of software to use ,besides business intelligence, the demand for better work experiences will continue to drive BPM vendors. Right now BPM is good at easy to develop process flows and the visibility of work on those flows, but that is not good enough for [...]

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One of the problems with applications is that they are a best practice, assuming we believe that, encased in concrete. The problem comes with changing either packaged applications and/or custom bespoke applications. The “time to market” of typical applications changes are becoming intolerable for the business.

Best Practices Should be the Goal
It’s so much easier [...]

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There is an emerging debate around the interaction of processes and rules that will be fun to explore. I’m sure folks will have their opinions on this one. There are folks that believe that effective processes will leverage rules to attain positive goals and outcomes. There are others that would say that rules govern processes [...]

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