Butler analizza Teamworks7

Pochi giorni fa la società di analisi inglese Butler Group ha pubblicato un report su Teamworks7

Ecco le conclusioni:

“Teamworks 7 is a full-featured BPM solution, with all the functionality expected of a market-leading solution. It really differentiates itself from its competitors in two distinct areas, one technical and one non-technical. By using a shared-model architecture, Teamworks ensures that the process model is always up to date, regardless of where and when changes to the model are made. Thus, changes to a running process instance can be reflected back to the high-level model. From a non-technical point of view the major focus has been on ensuring ease of use for any and all of the participants of process lifecycle management. This ensures that the people involved in the process are able to help inoptimising the process, which makes far more sense than handing off the task to a ‘process expert’.

Potete scaricare qui una copia del report

Spiegare il BPM in 15 minuti

Qui trovate, in un filmato prodotto da Lombardi Software ,Brandon Baxter che spiega cosa è il BPM in 15 minuti.

Le banche dopo la crisi? Più agili solo con la tecnologia

Riprendo dal Ilsole24ore, sul convegno Gartner "il mondo finanziario dopo il diluvio":

.....Per superare tutto questo in agilità, è il caso di dire, occorre adottare principi e soluzioni di business process management (Bpm)...

Leggete qui l'articolo completo

Blueprint: video di presentazione

Un filmato vale più di molte porole

Qui un bel video di presentazione della nuova versione di Blueprint.

Blueprint spring release

Ecco le funzioni nuove in questa release:

Process Improvement is Everybody's Business

Our newest update moves Blueprint from being a great modeling tool to being the place for everyone in your organization to go for business improvement conversations. We've leveraged social networking concepts to facilitate the discussion about how each person can make their job better. Everyone can see and be notified about changes that are relevant to their work, discover relationships between what they do and the rest of the organization, and contribute feedback and suggestions to the community.

Product Tour: If you would like a detailed walk-through of the product, check out the 38-minute webinar and Q&A Blueprint Sr. Product Manager Dave Marquard recently conducted introducing Blueprint and the Spring '09 release.

Feature Details: For your reference, here are the details behind Blueprint's latest features:

• See Changes and Discover Relationships: Social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn can tell you when a colleague switches jobs or a long lost friend gets married. It's news you wouldn't have heard otherwise, or perhaps even known to ask about. Blueprint now does the same for process in your enterprise. The new Activity Feeds show you changes happening to your processes and helps you discover relationships between what you do and the rest of the company. Now you'll know when something changes two steps upstream from you that will affect your job, or that the person in the next building over does something similar that you leverage.

• Involve Every Desktop In Process Improvement: You have core teams of people modeling your processes in the business, but how do you involve the tens, hundreds, or thousands of people that participate in those processes? We've introduced a new "participant" role in Blueprint that allows people at the desk level to reference, review, offer feedback on, and participate in discussions about their work.

• Share And Control Access To Processes: Once you start involving a larger audience in your process improvement efforts, it becomes essential that you ensure that the right people have access to the right information. To that end, we've added the ability to set access controls for each of your Blueprint projects that allow you to choose to grant full edit privileges, review only access, or no access at all to the appropriate audience. This allows you to keep sensitive information private, or even share a limited set of processes with your customers or vendors. And just like the rest of Blueprint, we've given you this power in an interface that doesn't require a degree in rocket science to understand!

• Understand Relationships At A Glance: How many times have you been asked, "who is affected if we were to shut this legacy system down tomorrow?" or "who else in the organization depends on the work we do in this process?" Blueprint can now let you answer those questions with a single click. The new Where Used view can show you everywhere a person or system is involved in processes, where your inputs and outputs are used, or even where you see the same risks, problems, and opportunities for improvement.

• Better Usability And Experience: The Blueprint design team has been listening to your feedback and doing research on ways to make using the product even easier and more productive. To that end, we've redesigned the home page to make it far more personal-Activity Feeds and Favorites put information that's relevant to you at your fingertips. We've studied your navigation patterns and made it easier to get to the view of the process you need with fewer clicks. We've made the Discovery Map better than ever by adding panning, zooming, and printing to PDF just like the Process Diagram. Finally, we developed the participant / read-only view for processes from the ground up to make sure the highest value information is viewable on the screen at all times.

BLUEPRINT: la spring release è online

La versione di primavera di Blueprint è online.

Provatela gratis qui

Più di 5000 aziende al mondo stanno utilizzando Blueprint per il BPM discovery

Ecco alcuni screenshot:

BPM e business rules

Interessante presentazione di James Taylor (qui il suo blog) su come semplificare i processi utilizzando motori di Business Rules.
Using business rules to make processes simpler, smarter and more agile

View more presentations from James Taylor.

Commenti su Teamworks 7

Riprendo dal Blog di Lombardi:

It’s hard to describe how excited we are about the launch of Teamworks 7 at Lombardi. The excitement isn’t just about the big-picture value it will bring - it is about the advancements we have made in this release will make a difference to the people that are building processes in Teamworks day after day. Let me give you a few examples.

We’ve made it easier for authors that are just beginning to use Teamworks. How many times have you installed a new software product that gave you overwhelming numbers of buttons and menu options while providing no insight in how to use it?

The Authoring Environment in Teamworks 7 is redesigned to remove a lot of the noise and early confusion without losing the features that power authors need. You can see this from the completely new skin, simplified menus, and the way that Teamworks automatically organizes your process assets.

In addition, all authors now build their process assets within the context of one process app (project) at a time, which ensures that no one is changing assets that aren’t related to their projects.

There are a considerable number of changes we made to simplify some of the common authoring tasks while matching current best practices within the Teamworks community. For example, we simplified the way that integrations to external systems work by removing the need to create separate integration definition and connector components.

We have also introduced Teamworks Service types, including Human Services, Integration Services, Rule Services, and several others. This helps authors from making modeling mistakes like placing a service intended for human interaction into a system swimlane. We have also enhanced the data mapping capabilities to allow you to change activity implementations without having to redo your input/output data mappings.

We also added a lot of great new features that help new and experienced users alike. Many of these features like back-in-time, toolkits, and automated deployment are highlighted on our website, so please take a look there to see some examples of how these work. Our focus in adding these new features was to make sure that we added them in a way that makes sense for BPM and a model-driven architecture. We didn’t just bolt-on a version control system and tools designed to manage text-based code; we completely rethought how to manage changes to your process model as your processes evolve in a way that preserves the ability to build and iterate quickly.

Many of the features in Teamworks 7 were designed and built by people that have been on implementation teams for BPM projects and understand the challenges that many of you face each day. We think this release marks a major step forward BPM and for the experience of those that build processes every day. Let us know what you think.

Leggete nel link (mark a major step forward BPM) cosa dice Phil Gilbert nel suo blog.

Blueprint spring release

Lombardi's Spring '09 Blueprint Release Puts BPM On Every Desktop

Teamworks 7 in dirittura di arrivo

Come annunciato precedentemente Teamworks7 sta facendo capolino in casa Lombardi.
Sul sito della società si cominciano a trovare le prime informazioni.

Qui troverete 6 filmati che vi permetteranno di cominciare a conoscere le nuove funzionalità.

Qui il link al comunicato stampa.

Teamworks in AVIVA

In una intervista pubblicata da Future Banking, Toby Redshaw di AVIVA spiega perchè ha scelto Teamworks per la propria strategia di BPM.
Una delle frase interessanti dice:

"Choosing the right BPM vendor was not just about the product itself but how it fits with SOA and our Web 2.0 platform. For us Lombardi was the clear winner"

Per leggere l'intervista cliccate qui

Ricordatevi del Driven 2009

Come sapete il tradizionale incontro con gli utenti di Lombardi quest'anno si svolge online.

Il programma è il seguente:

Potete iscrivervi (gratuitamente) qui

BPMS e BPA

C'è sempre un po' di confusione quando si parla di strumenti BPMS e BPA.
Ora la società produttrici di uno dei più diffusi (IDS Scheer-ARIS) nel suo blog ha scritto un bel post che spiega bene la differenza

Lo trovare qui.

Su Process Cafe un'altra recensione di Blueprint

Sul Blog Process Cafe di Gary Comerford trovate qui un'altra recensione, non male, di Blueprint.

I 10 skill tecnici più ricercati

Da un ricerca appena conclusa da parte di Foote Partner è emerso che lo skill tecnico più ricercato negli Stati Uniti è quello dei "Business Process Modelling".

Ecco cosa dice a proposito la ricerca:

Business process management, methodology and modeling is one of the few IT niches that saw pay gains in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the quarterly IT salary survey compiled by Foote Partners. In particular, companies were willing to pay for workers with ITIL IT best practices and CobiT IT governance experience. Pay for these skills was up 10.3% from a year ago and 5.6% from the previous quarter, the Foote report says.
Kevin Faughnan, director of IBM’s Academic Initiative, says business process modeling is one of the key skills that business majors should be studying. “It’s about how does our business work, what are the business processes and how do we analyze them,” Faughnan says, adding that this is a key issue for companies to consider before applying IT to solve business problems.

Se siete curiosi di conoescere gli altri 9 skill, eccoli

• 2. Database
• 3. Messaging/Communications
• 4. IT Architecture
• 5. IT Security
• 6. Project Management
• 7. Data Mining
• 8. Web Development
• 9. IT Optimization
• 10. Networking

Più di 500 partecipanti al BPM summit Gartner !!!

Pur in un periodo di crisi la partecipazione è stata veramente notevole.
Jim Sinur (analista Gartner) nel suo blog commenta:

"There must be something to BPM when hundreds of executives show up to hear how BPM enables organizations to survive, thrive and capitalize. These are challenging times and the first thing that goes out of the window is travel costs. One would expect that conferences would suffer, but not BPM."

Leggete qui il post completo

Sandy Kemsley su BPM & SOA

Qui una bella conferenza di Sandy Kemsley su BPM e SOA (occorre registrarsi e dura circa mezz'ora).

Il titolo è : PRAGMATIC BPM and SOA: the dialog start here

Gli argomenti trattati sono:

• BPM e SOA definition
• Better together: BPM justify SOA and SOA support BPM
• Specifying and prioritizing services implementattion
• BPM need to stay under business control, supported by IT's SOA efforts

A destra una delle slide più significative di Sandy Kemsley

Forrester su Blueprint

il 16 febbraio scrivevo:

Forrester ha pubblicato un interessante report su Blueprint di Lombardi, lo strumento oggi più diffuso per il BPM discovery con più di 4500 utenti.

Dal sito di Forrester ecco cosa viene detto nell'execuitve summary.

Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap Between Process Discovery And Execution
Austin-based Lombardi Software’s latest offering, Blueprint, positions the vendor to extend its leadership in human-centric business process management (BPM) and takes direct aim at Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Visio as the tools of choice for process analysts. Blueprint provides a process modeling and discovery platform that blends collaboration and documentation capabilities into an easy-to-use, low cost, software-as-a-service offering that can be used by beginner to expert process analysts. To stay ahead of the pack, the platform needs to continue extending its collaborative Web 2.0 functionality as other BPM suite vendors play catch-up by introducing similar offerings. Consider Lombardi Blueprint if you need a collaborative and lightweight process discovery tool that is tailored to support geographically dispersed process discovery teams.

------------->>>>>>>Il report ora è disponibile qui.

Perchè non provare ad utilizzare Blueprint per un mese gratis e controllare quello che Forrester sostiene? Cliccate qui

Una differenza visiva tra Teamworks e gli altri

Così si rappresentano i tre modelli canonici con gli altri prodotti:

Mentre con Teamworks si vedranno così: what you see is what you run:

3 clienti Lombardi al Gartner BPM summit di San Diego

3 of our customers are speaking at Gartner’s upcoming North American Business Process Management Summit! Lombardi is a Premier sponsor of the three day event, which will be held on March 23 – 25, 2009 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina in San Diego, CA. Lombardi’s theme for the conference is “Clear Directions, Clear Results,” and is targeted at showing companies ways to immediately get started with BPM and achieve results – fast!

First, Mr. Erik Keller, CIO at SIRVA, Inc., has been selected by Gartner to share his experiences on a BPM end-user case study, entitled “Leveraging BPM to Deliver Mission Critical Applications - One CIO’s Perspective.” The case study will be presented on Monday, March 23, 2009, in the Grande Ballroom “B” at 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

Next, Mr. Dan Wang, manager of business process architecture at StubHub, will participate on a BPM case study panel session. The session, moderated by BPM analyst Bill Rosser, is entitled “Change Management in Action – Are You Ready for BPM?” and will be held on Wednesday, March 25, 2009, in the Grande Ballroom “B” at 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PT.

This two-part session is being held on Monday, March 23, in the Grande Ballroom “B” from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT. The session begins with our very own Jim Rudden presenting “Clear Directions for BPM Success.” Immediately following Jim, Mr. Farrukh Humayun, vice president of information services at PNC Bank will deliver a 20 minute presentation entitled “How National City Bank is Delivering Clear Results with BPM.”