Saturday, July 30, 2005

TIBCO Faces Shareholder Suits - over faulty integration of Staffware

Looks like not all is well with the consolidation in the BPM industry. TIBCO's acquisition of Staffware and efforts to integrate it with its offerings are running into rough seas - and quite predictably so.

So what's the future for Staffware - with dwindling sales and many of the key people gone, Staffware may be heading towards an uncertain future. Jon Pike - the ex CTO of Staffware and widely seen as the architect of the original Staffware product now works for a competitor - Global 360 (the new avatar of Eastman Software).
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Friday, July 29, 2005

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: In Focus: What's Hot and Not-So-Hot in ECM

Filenet ascribes its most recent strong earnings figures to BPM.

BPM vs. Content Management

While BPM market is growing at 27 to 32% annually while Content Management is only growing at 8%

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: In Focus: What's Hot and Not-So-Hot in ECM

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Forbes.com: Overprocessed World

A contrarian view on Business Process Management (BPM) by John Dvorak.

Forbes.com: Overprocessed World

Monday, July 04, 2005

IT-Director.com: What is a Business Process?

IT-Director.com: What is a Business Process?: "is "
"getting the right product(s) to the right person at the right time based on existing orders"

Let me be very clear that this IS the definition of the order fulfillment business process – and that the detailed workflow expression of the process is NOT the definition of the process but is instead the "map" of how the process works.

Friday, July 01, 2005

SOA Pipeline | Review: Business Process Management Suites

SOA Pipeline | Review: Business Process Management Suites: "This scenario let us evaluate a variety of feature sets and functionality across what appeared to be disparate technologies (see 'How We Tested,' for more details).

During our evaluation, we acted as both IT staffer and business analyst: For you IT pros, we evaluated features such as platform support, architecture, administrative capabilities, and integration with application infrastructure and identity-management systems. For you business analysts, we examined reporting and analysis features and the ease with which process owners might model and simulate processes. We collaborated with our sister publication Intelligent Enterprise on each product tested. For a more business-analyst focus on the BPM offerings, watch for the review of these products in Intelligent Enterprise's August issue (see www.intelligententerprise.com)."

Compliance Pipeline | Feature: Market Analysis: Understanding Business Process Management

Compliance Pipeline | Feature: Market Analysis: Understanding Business Process Management: "Most BPM suites are process-oriented, sharing information among modeling tools, fat clients, portals and the process engine through Web services. The advantages to this model are reuse, interoperability and faster time to deploy."