On Business Rules and Vocabularies - Part I
Posted by Marwane El Kharbili on May 30, 2008
Marwane El Kharbili
ARIS Development
Business Rules Management (BRM) is a recognized approached for achieving business agility that made its way in the last 20 to 30 years and allies management disciplines and results from the research community on business rules. Now, business rules are changing the way organizations think about their business.
Review: SAPPHIRE 2008 - A new star is born in the BPM Galaxy…
Posted by Eric Brabaender on May 26, 2008
by Eric Brabaender
ARIS Product Marketing
Based on the rumours from last years’ SAPPHIRE regarding the upcoming SAP modelling tool “Galaxy” and its integration with ESR as well as the possibility of process execution I joined this year in Berlin two presentations on SAP’s new announced BPM product. One presentation “Next-Generation BPM on an Open Business Process Platform” was held by Thomas Volmering, responsible head of product management for SAP BPM and Ralf Heindoerfer, Development Manager SAP NetWeaver Business Process & Event Management at SAP.
The second presentation (”Business Process Management in Action: No Detours from Model to Execution”) was held by Alexander Grobe, Innovation Specialist, Customer Service and Business Strategy/Scale at Coca Cola, a first pilot-customer using SAP NetWeaver BPM for the execution of ESR-based marketing & promotion processes.
Review: SAPPHIRE 2008 - Where SAP is heading to…
Posted by Eric Brabaender on May 23, 2008
by Eric Brabaender
ARIS Product Marketing
This week I was at SAPPHIRE Europe in Berlin and again I have to admit that this is a very impressing event with its about 9000 people being a part of this European SAP community. This years’ theme of SAPPHIRE was “Business Beyond Boundaries” and Henning Kagermann started his Keynote with a very nice video intro with soccer artists that show a joint and artistic soccer play at a lot of different places all over the world.
BPMN and XPDL
Posted by Sebastian Stein on May 21, 2008
by Sebastian Stein
ARIS Development
My previous post about the future of BPMN created quite some noise in the community. It seems there are many people out there having some great ideas how to move forward BPMN. One clear issue to be tackled in BPMN 2.0 is the missing exchange format. Some readers suggest using XPDL for this purpose. Let’s take a look at it and see if this is a good idea.
Part 2: How BPM really works: From “BPR” to “BPM as a Discipline”
Posted by Britta Hilt on May 19, 2008
by Britta Hilt
ARIS Product Management
Today: Knowing HOW is half the story!
Many factors like laws & regulations, changed customer requirements, information technology trends, market changes can slow down companies, or even risk their economic success. Improving Business Process enables them to stay ahead. However, since the world is still turning around, it´s not a one-time improvement project, but a continuous approach: “BPM as a Discipline”
Executive Command-and-Control of Business Processes, A Perspective
Posted by Michael Wheeler on May 14, 2008
by Mike Wheeler
ARIS Senior Solutions Engineer
In order to provide today’s operationally savvy executive with the command-and-control cockpit that is needed to run an effective organization, I propose that we must first consider the three basic components that are the foundation of any organization: people, processes and technology. In order to achieve the lofty goals of increased valuation, top-line growth and increased share price, it is imperative to have a well-defined business strategy, supported by a sound operational strategy, which is driven by operational execution. It is this foundation that provides the fuel to drive operational execution.
Review: Process Intelligence Conference Split, Croatia
Posted by Joerg Klueckmann on May 8, 2008
by Joerg Klueckmann
ARIS Product Marketing
I just came from the presentation from Mr. Witschi from Swisscom. In a 3 hours sessions (including a coffee break) he showed why and how Swisscom switched its order processing controlling/management to ARIS Process Performance Manager. The impressing thing was that he used the live Swisscom system to show how they were able to reduce the average processing time for order process (e.g. DSL order and installation) from 5.3 working days to 1 working day. If you don’t believe this number, click on read more.
Review: ARIS ProcessDay Split, Croatia
Posted by Joerg Klueckmann on May 7, 2008
by Joerg Klueckmann
ARIS Product Marketing
I was fortunate to receive an invitation to ARIS ProcessDay in Split, Croatia. Let me start this way. It’s the perfect location to do an event. Not only were the surroundings (mountains/ ocean/ sun) extraordinary, but also the presentations. I especially enjoyed the presentation from Rob Davis. He is a Principal BPM Consultant at British Telecom.
Business Information Systems (BIS) Conference Innsbruck, Austria
Posted by Sebastian Stein on May 7, 2008
by Sebastian Stein
ARIS Development
I am currently at the 11th Business Information Systems (BIS) conference in Innsbruck, Austria. Innsbruck is a small town in the middle of the European Alps surrounded by massive mountains of more than 2.500m. It is a nice scenery for such a conference. The BIS conference is one of the leading international events for scientific work on business process management (BPM), enterprise modelling and architecture (EA), and service oriented architectures (SOA).
Risk management has officially become the new compliance?
Posted by Martin Kling on May 5, 2008
by Martin Kling,Solution Manager Governance, Risk & Compliance
Today I read an Article by AMR Research Analyst John Haggerty where he stated that “Risk management has officially become the new compliance”. I think that is true for many of the companies we talk to. Pure Compliance to satisfy some regulators or auditors needs is not the main focus anymore, many of our customers want to expand their risk assessments to all operational areas to gain maximum benefit out of these methods.
