Business process management (BPM)
Business processes are not your business
If we want to make the effort of having a closer look at our customer's processes we might identify huge opportunities for improvement of our own business processes. Business Process Management (BPM) revisited.
The Xpragmatic View #84 - April 15, 2007
Waiting for the next generation BPM
Business Process Management (BPM) is becoming increasingly popular. New players, new solutions, new initiatives, they all are further on convincing us of the value of and the need for the process-driven enterprise. But are the expectations set correctly?
The Xpragmatic View #63 - November 2004
Business Process Management: challenge and opportunity
Business Process Management (BPM) is gradually getting mainstream and we see an increasing number of organisations starting new initiatives. For all those who are planning for the launch of such project, we want to present here a couple of quick reflections on potential challenge, but also on new opportunity.
The Xpragmatic View #57 - November 2003
BAM (Business Activity Monitoring): Hype or opportunity?
The past few months, we saw an increasing number of publications on the subject of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). The concept of Business Activity Monitoring has been introduced already a while ago by the GartnerGroup. As such, it is an extension of or an add-on to Gartner's Zero Latency paradigm. Zero Latency is the concept of readily responding to changes in the business environment. To a large extent, BAM is an approach that can make such changes visible to the organisation. Therefore, Gartner and many other analysts argue that BAM is a next "must have" in our evolution to the real-time enterprise. Hype or opportunity?
The Xpragmatic View #54 - May 2003
The popularity of BPM-like approaches and solutions is steadily increasing. Some of the major analyst groups, not to name Gartner, are increasingly positioning BPM as a key concept for the business practices of the coming years. As can expected, most IT-vendors got the message...
The Xpragmatic View #52 - February 2003
BPPM (Business Process Performance Management / Measurement / Monitoring) is gradually becoming another hot item. To a large extent, BPPM technology is a very natural evolution or extension of the initial wave of EAI solutions and, later on, of the various BPM offerings. Very decent BPPM functionality is already available today. However, organisations have discovered the business value of such capabilities and are asking for more. Unfortunately, this more might be a little bit too difficult to get - today...
The Xpragmatic View #50 - September 2002
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Recently, Sterling Software presented its new strategy during a seminar in Brussels titled "Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)". For people like me who are following a bit what happens in the EAI market, Sterling Software is not really seen as a "typical" EAI vendor. They are of course well known for their development tools, previously known as Composer, but now marketed under the label of COOL:Gen, etc. Sterling's new strategy is an illustration of the reality that the EAI market that we knew from vendors such as New Era Of Networks and TSISoft is getting more and more mainstream and increasingly e-business focused.
White paper - September 1999
