Creating a constrained definition for a measurable business process
Ask ten business people about “the billing process” in your company. Get specific. Diagram it out. You will get eleven…
Business Case for Integration, part two
My good friend Harry Pierson took a pass at my ‘business case for integration’ post the other day on his…
SOA and BI support the same goals
Special thanks to Loraine Lawson for pointing out this excellent article in DMReview titled “BI, Process, and Integration Trends.” The…
A Maturity Model for Data Integration
Integration is an odd thing. You have to make many people agree on common things in order for it to…
Binding SOA to BPM instead of BPM to SOA
SOA has more traction these days than BPM does. SOA tools are more mature, but they are also wildly technical. …
Why Business Process Management is more than BPEL
I recently heard a presentation from a competitor to Microsoft Biztalk talk about their business process modeling tool. It competes…
Free Code – Getting IT out of the Applications business
There is one big thing we must do if we are to make IT align with business strategy, we need…
How is Business Process Management related to Service Oriented Architecture?
I’m at a large training conference this week, doing a presentation on my ideas around Middle-out SOA and abstractions in…
Three levels of abstraction in BPM – Part 1: Business Unit Level
I identified, in an earlier post, that I believe that there are three levels of abstraction in business process modelling. …
Three levels of abstraction in Business Process Management
I’ve been thinking about the levels of abstraction that Martin Fowler defines in software development: a conceptual view, a specification…