SOA Gartner Summit 2008 Review, Tokyo – Platforms aren’t what they used to be
Posted by Joerg Klueckmann on Jul 21, 2008
I am at the Gartner SOA Summit in Tokyo in the Session held by Mr. Phifer from Gartner. He is talking about the application platform trends of the next years. Here is his message in a few sentences: Good times in economy are over for a while. IT budgets are being cut. Focus is on cost savings. Cloud computing and virtualization should help to lower the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and that’s about it for the trend of the next years.
ARIS for Microsoft BizTalk
Posted by Peter Müller on Jul 17, 2008
Many analysts and customers wonder how Microsoft’s SOA strategy will evolve in the coming months and years. I cannot tell you how Microsoft’s implementation of SOA will look like in general, but I would like to share some details with you concerning the combined SOA approach of Microsoft and IDS Scheer.
Semantic Business Process Management
Posted by Sebastian Stein on Jul 14, 2008
Business process management (BPM) is now getting adopted by many companies. In itself, BPM provides many possibilities to improve business processes, customer orientation, aligning business and IT, and increasing the flexibility of an enterprise. Still, we at IDS Scheer already try to envision what might come next. Here, the usage of Semantic Web technologies like reasoners, ontologies, and mediators promises boosting business process management to a completely new level of possibilities. This approach is known as semantic business process management (SBPM).
What’s the relation between ARIS and SAP Netweaver BPM?
Posted by Sven Roeleven on Jul 10, 2008
At ARIS UserDay and ARIS ProcessWorld I got at the Process-driven SAP booth some questions about the role of ARIS related to SAP Netweaver BPM. In presentations on ProcessWorld and the blog of Eric Brabaender was already mentioned that ARIS can be positioned best as “Business to Model” and SAP Netweaver as “Model to execution”, so complementary products…
ARIS TV - Episode 7 - SAP’s Roadmap to BPM and ARIS
Posted by Eric Brabaender on Jul 7, 2008
How to develop a BPM roadmap and how to integrate BPM with SAP’s Enterprise SOA approach? What is the role of ARIS within SAP-related projects? How is ARIS related to SAP NetWeaver BPM (a.k.a. Galaxy)? Where can you read more about BPM? In this episode I had the chance to interview Ann Rosenberg, BC Global Practice Owner for Business Process Management and Senior Strategic Business Process Management Consultant at SAP who is author of the upcoming book “Roadmap to Business Process Management”…
A Matter of Honor
Posted by Uwe Roediger on Jul 7, 2008
Business process management is all about people. This is also true for IDS Scheer itself. Therefore, from time to time we will show here in the ARIS BPM Blog those people and their interests. Today, we start with a report about an endurance run with over 12.000 participants two weeks ago.
ARIS TV - Episode 6 - What are your BPM Services?
Posted by Eric Brabaender on Jul 4, 2008
If you are responsible for Business Process Management in your company, what are the right services to offer? How can you identify your BPM maturity level and identify potential strategies to improve your BPM system? Professor Michael Rosemann will give you more insights into one of his BPM research fields…
ARIS TV - Episode 5 - Learn more about SAP’s internal BPM Organization
Posted by Eric Brabaender on Jul 1, 2008
Would you like to learn more how SAP is managing their BPM approach? Would you like to see an example of an excellent BPM organization? Would you like to understand how SAP is internally using ARIS Process Performance Manager to measure and control their end-to-end business processes? Today we provide you with a new episode of ARIS TV. In episode 5 I had the chance to interview Mark Scavillo, Head of Process Governance at SAP AG…
BPM + BRM = Greater than the Sum of the Parts
Posted by Kai-Uwe Schwarzwaelder on Jun 30, 2008
Last month I listened to a webinar hosted by the International Business Rules Forum. It was one of the few webinars before the forum starts on October 26 in Orlando. The BRF’s theme this year is “all around agility”. This includes all topics around Business Rules Management, Business Process Management, Business Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Decision Management and other analytic activities.
Great News: IDS Scheer Joins The Open Group!
Posted by Konstantin Ivanov on Jun 26, 2008
I am really happy to share with you the great news: IDS Scheer has joined recently The Open Group! You may wonder (if you are a bit outside Enterprise Architecture community) what this group is? Well, The Open Group (TOG) is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow™ will enable access to integrated information, within and among enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability (that is what they say about themselves :-) )…
