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).
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.
Ovum Research is speaking about the fusion of BI and BPM and I am listening
Posted by Joerg Klueckmann on Jun 18, 2008
I survived the evening event at Kosmos, a former movie theater which is now a great party location in the eastern part of Berlin. After just a few hours of sleep, I was sitting in the presentation held by Ian Charlesworth from Ovum Research. He offers us an analyst perspective on the merger of BI and BPM.
Live from the Business Process Excellence Award Ceremony
Posted by Joerg Klueckmann on Jun 18, 2008
I am writing live from the Business Process Excellence Award. Each year, the best BPM projects receive an award from IDS Scheer. The award is being presented in six categories.
Global Process Excellence in A.P. Moeller-Maersk
Posted by Sebastian Stein on Jun 17, 2008
Having to deliver the first presentation after lunch is not always an appreciated task, because participants tend to be late and to walk in during the session. Steen Hadsbjerg of A.P. Moeller-Maersk was not facing this problem: His session was well attended from the beginning.
Gartner’s View on Business Process Analysis
Posted by Sebastian Stein on Jun 17, 2008
Yesterday, ARIS UserDay was already crowded, but today’s ARIS ProcessWorld has even more people. Some minutes ago, the Gartner session ended and the room was completely filled. There were several people sitting or standing at the walls to be able to listen to the presentation by Marc Kerremans of Gartner…
BPM = Business Process Management = Business Performance Management
Posted by Eric Brabaender on Jun 17, 2008
The IDS Scheer ProcessWorld has started with a Keynote speech by Professor Scheer. The keynote room of the Maritim Hotel in Berlin is completely filled by the audience. As a passionate jazz saxophonist, he starts, of course, with a short jazz play introduction with the song “Milestones”.
Standardising Service Delivery Processes
Posted by Sebastian Stein on Jun 16, 2008
Today, the amount of hybrid products is increasing. Hybrid products consist on one hand of a physical good like a wind mill and on the other hand of services around the physical good. SKF GmbH and H2O GmbH are currently presenting the results of a research effort supported by the EU Commission to create an integrated reference model for maintenance processes around industrial goods…
Six Sigma Roundtable
Posted by Sebastian Stein on Jun 16, 2008
I am currently attending the Six Sigma roundtable during ARIS UserDay. In contrast to ordinary presentations, this is a discussion between five Six Sigma experts. They are sharing their experience of introducing Six Sigma in their organisations and the motivation for it…
Practical Benefit of Process Modelling
Posted by Eric Brabaender on Jun 16, 2008
Today I joined the customer experience session by Rob Davis at ARIS User Day. Rob is a well known and renowned expert in process modelling. At British Telecom (BT), he’s been working as a principal consultant for process architecture, design and modelling for many years now.During this time, he has gained lots of experience in the sage of ARIS by building up a common process management approach at BT, one of the world’s leading telecom providers….
