RAVEN Cloud General Release: Generate Process Maps From Natural Language Text
Back in May, I wrote about a cool new cloud-based service called RAVEN Cloud, which translated natural language text into process maps. As I wrote then: You start out either with one of the standard text examples or by entering your own text to describe the process; you can use some basic text formatting to [...]
Maintaining Consistency Across BPM Initiatives’ Content
In a break from the usual lineup of academics and researches, Peter Braun of Bank of America was up next in the collaboration and consistency management workshop to present on maintaining consistency across BPM initiatives’ content. They use IBM’s WebSphere Business Modeler (WBM), Information Framework (IFW, effectively a set of reference models in an enterprise [...]
Real Time Monitoring & Simulation of Business Processes
My last session for the day at CASCON is to hear Alex Lau of IBM, and Andrei Solomon and Marin Litoiu of York University discuss their research project on real time monitoring and simulation of business processes (they also presented a related paper this morning, although I missed the session). This is one of the [...]
Metastorm New Releases: Collaborative Modeling with M3 and Smart Business Workspace Application Builder
Although we didn’t have a chance for a demo, I had a quick briefing with Greg Carter, Metastorm’s CTO, on the announcements that they made today. M3 Collaborative Modeling We discussed M3, their cloud-based collaborative process modeling tool. This is one of the first BPA/BPM offerings that I’ve seen on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, [...]
Ravin’ About RAVEN Cloud: Generate Process Diagrams From Plain Text
David Ruiz, who founded ViewStar (an early document imaging and workflow package from the 1980’s that I remember well, and was eventually absorbed by Global360) is now with Ravenflow, which specializes in natural language processing for visual requirements definition.
Their RAVEN engine is a natural language solution that they are applying to a couple of different [...]
Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement: David Brown of Motorola
I missed the first morning of the IQPC Lean Six Sigma & Process Improvement conference in Toronto today, but with my usual impeccable timing, showed up just in time for lunch (where we had to explain the rules of curling to the American attendees). The first session this afternoon is with David Brown, a black [...]
ARIS Express Process Modeling Contest
The ARIS online community is running a contest until the end of November to get people started with process modeling: create a process model (using their free downloadable ARIS Express process modeler, of course) that falls into the category “BPM is useful” or “BPM is fun”, and submit it on their site. I’m not sure [...]
Fujitsu Interstage BPM V11
I had a briefing this week on Fujitsu’s just-released Interstage BPM version 11 as well as an update on their cloud platform. I’ll cover the cloud platform in another blog post, since this one is getting a bit long. Version 11 has a lot of new features for handling ad hoc, collaborative, knowledge-intensive work; this [...]
