Why Business Process Management is more than BPEL

re: Why Business Process Management is more than BPEL

Anil Datt — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Nick,

What I see is that because BPEL and BPMN emerged as standards for BPM it has been used as the sales buzz word by the vendors. A tech savy manager would know that BPEL is not just enough. The lists you are looking at probably is the holy grail of BPM.

I think a lot of standards would emerge in the coming years to to address specific needs in the BPM world. For example BPEL4People an exention to BPEL language to address the workflow would probably replace the proprietary solutions vendors are providing now. When they are compliant this would be another sales buzz word :)

Anil Datt

re: Why Business Process Management is more than BPEL

peter foley — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:30:23 GMT

Spot on again. Our homegrown system does most of the list above. One thin we do that I haven't seen anyone else do is let people "execute" the business processes. A person is presented with a graphical model of the BP and performs the activities. As they go they inform the model displayer of the status of their actions. The status is used by the model displayer to determine the next activity the person can work on. Management information is collected as the BP "executes". Help on how to do an activity is aslo associated with the model. An activity can also start another BP or an automated workflow.

New and Notable 180

Sam Gentile — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:28:04 GMT

So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time

New and Notable 180

Sam Gentile — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:30:53 GMT

So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time