A Career in #BPM Pays Off
Lest there be any doubt that BPM skills are in demand, Tom Baeyens has pointed out that SimplyHired stats claims the average jBPM salary in CA is US$114,000. Not bad. Lombardi BPM shows similar numbers. It supports what we’ve been … Continue reading
More on #bpmCamp topics
Continuing on the theme from yesterday, we’ll point out a few more topics here. We’ll have a session (or several sessions) on UI frameworks inside and outside of Teamworks, discussing trade-offs of various approaches and benefits of each. The relationship … Continue reading
IBM Doesn't Waste Any Time. Neither Does Lombardi. #bpm
Well, as Sandy Kemsley pointed out, this deal closed fast. Equally quickly, Lombardi shows how a SaaS product can catch up to the news (or at least start to), by releasing Blueprint to Websphere Business Modeler integration today. Good start … Continue reading
#bpmCamp Topics are Taking Shape
I’m excited about the topics taking shape for bpmCamp this week, and I’m going to send out a few teasers before the event starts on Thursday morning. We’ll do our best to capture as much as we can and share … Continue reading
Running IT as a Business
MWD Advisors has a post up regarding Running IT as a Business. As they put it, the main objections to this idea seem to be “daft” – that they depend on assuming that IT will run this business in the … Continue reading
Co-Founders
I couldn’t agree more with Fabrice Grinda’s post on Why you Need a Partner. Perhaps I’m biased, since BP3 started with two co-founders. But I also have a lot of friends who own their own business. And I’ve worked for … Continue reading
Top Ten List for How to Make Coach Designer Better
We’re partners of Lombardi, and we’re avid users of their BPM software, as it is one of our preferred tools. And we use the coach designer all the time, but I’d like to take a moment to propose a “Top … Continue reading
Interesting Read on Hadoop Math
Ok ok, what could possibly be interesting about Hadoop-based systems and Mathematics? Well, it sounds fancier to say Hadoop-based system… but really this basic math applies to any batch-oriented system and those of us who have been writing batch processing … Continue reading
#bpmCamp Sold Out!
bpmCamp 2010 @ Stanford has sold out! The waiting list is open, however, and we’ll evaluate additional attendees on a first-come-first-serve basis if we get any cancellations. We’re looking forward to seeing 40 participants from at least 11 companies, plus … Continue reading
Tom Baeyens on Blending Process and Rules
Tom continues to update the world with jBPM updates – in this case, using jBPM 4 and Drools to blend process and rules. His updates definitely play to the technical audience rather than the business – but I don’t find … Continue reading
Toys of Today
Chris Dixon recently wrote that the next big thing will start out looking like a toy. No, he’s not presaging the rise of toys as the next trend in retail or tech (although, with 100,000 Apps on the App store … Continue reading
7 days remaining for #bpmCamp Registration
Time to register for bpmCamp …7 days left to register, and we’re nearly sold out.
Make No Little Plans
Man. Steve Blank writes some great stuff. Makes me wish I had gone to epiphany back in the 90′s! He explains that if you’re going to go work for someone, make sure they have big plans, plans to grow the … Continue reading
BPM is Dead. Long Live BPM!
The End of Days.. ahem… The End of BPM, is here. Or is it? We have several pundits proclaiming so (either anonymously or otherwise). We have several vendors and analysts and bloggers dancing on the grave of BPM (or the … Continue reading
Forrester Picks up the Pieces (in #BPM)
Good article from Connie Moore of Forrester yesterday, on assessing the BPM market the day after the Savvion news broke. As she points out, these deals are important because of: Convergence of BPM types Clear signs of expanded interest in … Continue reading
Hard to Spin This (#apple)
It looks like Nexus One may not be the iPhone killer after all (despite all the Google ads running on TechCrunch these days)… The first quote: Flurry is estimating the Nexus One only sold 20,000 handsets in its first week. … Continue reading
Announcing a New Office for BP3
BP3 will be moving into new digs come February 1. Doing this move at the beginning of the year feels like good timing too. A new year with new goals and objectives – and new professional space to go with … Continue reading
Enough of this "Departmental BPM"
I think nearly everyone thinks it was a mistake for IBM to position Lombardi as being “Departmental BPM” as a way to explain how it fits within their BPM offerings. The proof that it is a mistake is the flurry … Continue reading
Reasons for Optimism in a White Collar Nation
Two articles caught my attention recently because there is an interesting synergy between the two. In the first, Mike Gammage argues that BPM is the best career move for the next decade. He makes a compelling argument: that BPM is … Continue reading
And Savvion goes to Progress #BPM
Well, as predicted, the news of IBM acquiring Lombardi was quickly followed by more acquisition news: today Progress Software announced an acquisition of Savvion. I can’t say that I’m surprised – adding BPM is a logical step for Progress, and … Continue reading
Is Programming Hard? Is BPM Hard?
Good article by John Reynolds on the age-old question: is Programming Hard? We’ve often argued that BPM suites make implementing processes easier by giving the business and technical participants in process implementation a common language for discussing the process. It … Continue reading
Congrats to Phurnace, BMC
The news this morning in Austin (besides the chill wind blowing here today) is that BMC just bought local startup Phurnace. Additional coverage from Austin Startup and Redmonk. There are a few friends and former colleagues over there, and … Continue reading
Google Nexus One is Out. I Still Like Apple's Chances.
I’ve been reading the latest flurry of iPhone / NexusOne articles and blog posts making the rounds, and I just can’t resist commenting. Walt Mossberg gives both products a thumbs up, and Michael Arrington says the Nexus One is better … Continue reading
Top ebizQ BPM in Action Polls from 2009
Thanks for the shout-out, ebizQ although I could have found a more colorful quote to represent my posts – definitely some good discussion on these boards last year. Here’s a link to their pick for top quotes.
Early Bird Pricing Extended at bpmCamp 2010 @ Stanford
Stanford has offered to reduce the regular registration price to the early bird price- $100 for a two-day BPM Conference on the beautiful Stanford campus. Can’t ask for a better bargain. Still a few days left to register…
BP3 Makes the Who's Who in BPM Services
Gartner Group’s Michele Cantara just published its list of “Who’s Who” in BPM Consulting and System Integration on December 14th, 2009. 17 Companies are covered, and BP3 is on the list. Michele gives an overview of the BPM Services landscape, … Continue reading
Large Models in BPMN
A research paper was recently published, which purports to research improving the traversal of large hierarchical process repositories. After a good introduction and background to the topic, the authors quickly jump to IDS Scheer and IBM’s Websphere as examples of … Continue reading
Happy New Year 2010
The first day (or two) of 2010. While some say that this marks the beginning of the Second Decade of BPM, others are proclaiming the Death of BPM. For those of us at BP3, we remain optimistic about this “second … Continue reading