RPA just wants to be free: @WorkFusion RPA Express
WorkFusion announced that their robotic process automation product, RPA Express, will be released in 2017 as a free product; they published a blog post as well as the press release, and today they hosted a webinar to talk more about it. They are taking requests to join the beta program now, with a plan to […]
Bridging the bimodal IT divide
I wrote a paper a few months back on bimodal IT: a somewhat controversial subject, since many feel that IT should not be bimodal. My position is that it already is – with a division between “heavy” IT development and lighter-weight citizen development – and we need to deal with what’s there with a range […]
Another rift in the open source BPM market: @FlowableBPM forks from @Alfresco Activiti
In early 2013, Camunda – at the time, a value-added Activiti consulting partner as well as a significant contributor to the open source project – created a fork from Activiti to form what is now the Camunda open source BPM platform as well as their commercial version based on the open source core. As I […]
Camunda Community Day: community contributions
Two years ago, I attended Camunda’s open source community day, and gave the opening keynote at their enterprise user conference the following day. I really enjoyed my experience at the open source day, and jumped at the chance to attend again this year – and to visit Berlin. The first day was the community day, […]
Ten years of social BPM
Ten years ago today, I gave my first public presentation on social BPM, “Web 2.0 and BPM”, at the now-defunct BPMG Process 2006 conference in London: Web 2.0 and BPM from Sandy Kemsley The ideas from consumer social software that I proposed be integrated into BPM — software as a service, user-created processes, collaboration during […]
Camunda BPM 7.5: CMMN, BPMN element templates, and more
I attended an analyst briefing earlier today with Jakob Freund, CEO of Camunda, on the latest release of their product, Camunda BPM 7.5. This includes both the open source version available for free download, and the commercial version with the same code base plus a few additional features and professional support. Camunda won the “Best […]
ING Turkey’s journey to becoming a digital bank
I wanted to catch an ActiveMatrix BPM customer breakout session here at TIBCONOW 2016, so sat in on Rahsan Kalci from ING Turkey talking about their transformation to a digital bank using BPM, co-presenting with a senior BPM architect from TIBCO, Raisa Mahomed. I’ve always thought of ING Bank as innovative, both through personal experience […]
bpmNEXT 2016 demo: Capital BPM and Fujitsu
Our final demo session of bpmNEXT — can’t believe it’s all over. How I Learned to Tell the Truth with BPM – Gene Rawls, Capital BPM Their Veracity tool overlays architecture and process layers using visual models, integrated with a few different BPMS (primarily IBM); create models in the tool for process and underlying technical […]
BPM and IoT in Home and Hospice Healthcare with @PNMSoft
I listened in on a webinar by Vasileios Kospanos of PNMSoft today about business process management (BPM) and the internet of things (IoT). They started with some basic definitions and origins of IoT – I had no idea that the term was coined back in 1999, which is about the same time that the term […]
Appian Around The World – Toronto
Appian was recently doing a round of road-show conferences, and when they landed in my backyard, I decided to stop in for the day and see what was new. I missed Appian World this year and was looking forward to a bit of a product update as well as some of the local customer stories. […]
