Crescita del mercato BPMs

Nel recente Gartner Summit a Londra sono stati dati molto interessanti; la prima citazione dice:

"that BPMS will be among the fastest growing software markets over the next five years: from $1B this year to $2.6B in 2011 The key issues are globalization, the increasing importance of the consumer and the change in the dynamics of business as the Internet rises in importance."

Mentre la seconda dice:

"In a survey found that companies expected to spend 22% of their IT budgets this year on SOA, Web services, and Web 2.0 initiatives. Because BPM is a major reason for turning to SOA, companies are likely to target some of their SOA software spending to BPMS,"

che devo dire di altro? speriamo che gli stessi trend valgano anche in Italia!!!!

Corsi su BPM in aprile a Roma

Vi segnalo due corsi previsti nel mese di aprile a Roma su BPM: il primo della durata di due giorni (16 e 17 aprile) di carattere più generalistico, che si pone come obiettivo, come dice la brochure di presentazione, "Questo corso spiega il Business Process Management presentando in dettaglio i principi che governano i processi di Business, l'uso degli "enablers" che consentono le trasformazioni dei processi di Business, una metodologia strutturata per il design, lo sviluppo e la gestione del Business Process, il modeling del Business Process e gli strumenti, le tecniche e le tecnologie per gestire il Business Process.
Vengono inoltre spiegate le ragioni per le quali le aziende falliscono o hanno successo nell'implementazione del Business Process Management ".

Il secondo seminario, previsto nei due giorni successivi (18 e 19 aprile), ne approfondisce i concetti. Sempre dalla brochure "Questo seminario aiuterà a capire meglio l'analisi e il Modeling dei processi di Business. In particolare ne spiegherà i principi e i concetti, lo sviluppo di architetture di processo, il Modeling di processi di Business, regole e costi usando differenti tecniche, tra cui IDEF, i criteri di misurazione della Business Performance, l'uso di strumenti e tecniche per i Process Models "AS-IS" e "TO-BE", vari tools software per Process Modeling e Analysis."

I corsi sono organizzati da Technology Transfer, società leadear di mercato, che da anni organizza seminari/corsi con speaker di livello internazionale.

Nel caso specifico entrambi i corsi prevedono come istruttore mr. Ted Lewis.

BPEL contro XPDL

In questi giorni si leggono discussioni su vari blog per decidere quale linguaggio sia il migliore, per la definizione di un processo, tra tra XPDL e BPEL. Diamo prima due definizioni:

L'XPDL (XML Process Definition Language) è un linguaggio di markup ideato per la definizione dei processi di lavoro, standardizzato dalla WFMC (WorkFlow Management Coalition).

Il linguaggio BPEL (Business Proces Execution Language) orientato all'esecuzione di un processo business.

I due linguaggi sono più complementari che alternativi. A questo proposito leggete qui una esaustiva quanto semplice spiegazione.

Presentazione TeamWorks di Lombardi

Ho messo in linea l'ultima presentazione di TW utilizzando i servizi di zoho

Web 2.0 e Enterprise 2.0

Web 2.0 è una definizione coniata da Tim O'Reilly nel 2004 e fa riferimento a una seconda generazione di servizi o applicazioni web con una marcata enfasi su collaborazione e condivisione dei servizi, come le applicazioni wiki(wikipedia ad esempio) e le applicazione che vanno sotto il nome Social Commerce, l'evoluzione dell'E-Commerce in senso interattivo, che consente una maggiore partecipazione dei clienti , attraverso blogs, forum, sistemi di feedback ecc
Tim O'Reilly dice "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform"
Con Enterprise 2.0 si fa riferimento all'utilizzo di servizi di classe web 2.0 nell'area business. Esempi sono le applicazioni google (calendar, documenti etc), zoho (office suite con writer, sheet, show, tec), koral (document content management) e moltissimi altre. (vedere per esempio i partecipanti alla conferenza Office 2.0 a San Francisco nell'ottobre scorso e tenete presente che soluzioni di tipo office sono solo una parte delle soluzioni proponibili come Enterprise 2.0.
Se volete vedere un video di presentazione di koral cliccate qui
Molte della applicazioni Web 2.0 sono basate su AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) una tecnica di sviluppo web che permette di aumentare l'interattività e l'usabilità di pagine web.

Il blog di Phil Gilbert: CTO di Lombardi

Ecco il link al blog del CTO di Lombardi Software: Phil Gilbert.

Phil sta scrivendo un libro sul BPM: Process-Driven:Business Transformation in the 21st Century. Da qui si puo scaricare il primo capitolo

BPM on wikipedia

ecco cosa viene detto a proposito di BPM su wikipedia in inglese clicca qui

Il sito e il blog di Bruce Silver

Bruce Silver è un notissimo consulente indipendente attivo sul mondo BPM da molti anni.

Bruce pubblica anche un blog molto interessante (vedi a sinistra nella colonna dei migliori)

Il blog di Sandy

Il blog di Sandy Kemsley: molto interessante tra l'altro la cronaca, in tempo reale, del meeting Gartner sul BPM di qualche giorno fa in California.

Le organizzazioni attive nel BPM

Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM)

For over 60 years, AIIM (The Association for Information and Image Management)
has been the leading international organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, and business processes. AIIM is international in scope, independent, implementation-focused, and, as the representative of the entire ECM industry — including users, suppliers, and the channel — acts as the industry's intermediary. [ visit www.aiim.org ]

Association of Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP)

The Association of Business Process Management Professionals is a non-profit, vendor independent professional organization dedicated to the advancement of business process management concepts and its practices. ABPMP is practitioner-oriented and
practitioner-led. [ visit www.abpmp.org ]

BPM Institute

The BPM Institute is a peer-to-peer exchange for business process management professionals and is hosted by BrainStorm Group, a trusted source of unbiased information and education on BPM, Workflow, and Integration-related issues since 1997. The BPM Institute has been established in response to the demand for education and peer exchange on all aspects surrounding business process computing.
[ visit www.BPMinstitute.org ]

BPM Today

BPM Today provides IT professionals with daily news and information about business process management issues. Topics include data analytics, sales automation, employee relations, supply chain, resource planning, and more. BPM Today is part of the Newsfactor Network. [ visit www.bpm-today.com ]

BPM.com

BPM.com provides news and in-depth articles about both the business and technology perspectives of business process management. [ visit www.bpm.com ]

Business Integration Journal

Business Integration Journal covers the software solutions that enable the successful execution of business processes. These solutions have emerged from the convergence of many technologies: EAI, workflow, enterprise applications, collaborative tools, integration brokers, Web services, application servers, development tools, rules engines, and commerce offerings. In addition, the website features all the latest breaking news in the market and arranges content intuitively by topic. [ visit www.bijonline.com ]

Business Process Management Group

The Business Process Management Group (founded in 1992) is a global business club exchanging ideas and best practice in business process and change management. The organization includes over 12,000 members across all business sectors. Through case studies, seminars and research, BPMG supports its members in improving their organizations work across business processes, information technology, and people.
[ visit www.bpmg.org ]

Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI)

BPMI.org (the Business Process Management Initiative) is a non-profit corporation that aims to empower companies of all sizes, across all industries, to develop and operate business processes that span multiple applications and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. BPMI's core objective is to promote and develop open, complete, and royalty free XML-based standards that support and enable business process management (BPM) in all industries.

Working with standards organizations including OMG, WfMC, and OASIS, BPMI.org focuses on developing standards to support the entire life-cycle of BPM — from process design to deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization. [ visit www.bpmi.org ]

Business Process Trends (BP Trends)

BPTrends is the primary source of business intelligence for the global community of business executives and process change practitioners focused on Business Process Management. Industry thought leaders provide news, analysis, and opinion on trends, directions, and best practices relating to all aspects of business process change, including strategy, architecture, redesign, automation, and human performance. BPTrends is the most comprehensive, in-depth business process information site devoted to educating and informing the market, urging managers to look at the full range of business process opportunities and solutions available. [ visit www.bptrends.com ]

Object Management Grop (OMG)™

OMG is an open membership, non-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is OMG's multi-platform flagship specification based on the modeling specifications Meta-Object Facility (MOF), Unified Modeling Language (UML), XMI, and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). OMG's middleware platform, CORBA, includes the Interface Definition Language (IDL) and the IIOP protocol. [ visit www.omg.org ]

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)

OASIS is an international, non-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. OASIS produces more web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, the public sector, and numerous application-specific markets.

Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 4,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. [ visit www.oasis-open.org ]

Workflow And Reengineering International Association (WARIA)

The charter of the Workflow And Reengineering International Association is to identify and clarify issues that are common to users of workflow, electronic commerce and those who are in the process of reengineering their organizations. The association facilitates opportunities for members to discuss and share their experiences freely.

Established in 1992, WARIA's mission is to make sense of what's happening at the intersection of Business Process Management, Workflow and Electronic Commerce and reach clarity through sharing experiences, product evaluations, networking between users and vendors, education and training. [ visit www.waria.com ]

Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)

The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), founded in August 1993, is a non-profit, international organization of analysts, researchnalysts, research groups, universities, workflow vendors, and users.

WfMC's mission is to promote and develop the use of workflow through the establishment of standards for software terminology, interoperability, and connectivity between workflow products. The primary standards body for the workflow software market, WfMC promotes the use of workflow by establishing industry standards for software terminology, interoperability, and connectivity between workflow products.
[ visit www.wfmc.org ]

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The World Wide Web Consortium develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
[ visit www.w3.org ]