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- BPEL4People advances toward the mainstream
- BPEL Business Process Execution Language is too machine-oriented, catering to applications talking to other applications, they say. Most business processes need the human touch somewhere along the line. Do people need BPEL4People? Consider these un-automatable scenarios: A process may need an executive's approval to...
- Tags: Business Process, BPEL, Workflow, OASIS, Bottom Line, BPEL4People, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Another bop at BPEL; What's BPEL4People?
- Is Business Process Execution Language executable? Is it a language? David Chappell doesn't like BPEL, and he makes his disdain for Business Process Execution Language known in a new post at his site. "I'm not convinced that BPEL has much of a future as an executable language," says the well-known...
- Tags: BPEL
- Blog posts 2006-06-18
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- ActiveVOS (zip)
- ActiveVOS makes the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of services-based applications easy. By delivering the best of open standards like the Business Process Execution Language BPEL, BPEL4People and WS-Human Task in a comprehensive, all-in-one environment, developers working in a services-oriented architecture environment can deliver applications flexibly, freeing their processes...
- Tags: Business Process, BPM, Active Endpoints, ActiveVOS, ActiveVOS 5.01, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-12
- News to know: Black Hat; VoIP design flaws; Vista SP1; Apple
- Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs George Ou: Design flaw in wireless VoIP handsets endanger the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft fleshes out small-, mid-size Windows server plans Microsoft suspends distribution of Vista SP1...
- Tags: Black Hat, VoIP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- SOA Insights analysts discuss 'Future of SOA' at Open Group conference
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.I had the pleasure to moderate a panel of BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition regulars and guests at the recent the Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Austin, Texas.The topic was "The Future of SOA," and the panel really rose to the occasion --...
- Tags: Open Group, Information Technology, SOA, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- SOA Insights analysts explore SOA appliances, BPEL4People and GPL v3
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.Appliances for IT infrastructure have evolved to include everything from email servers to network routers to XML accelerators. Some would argue that "appliances" can be hardware, software, or both. Purists have a more strict definition that they say will make the locked-down and all-inclusive...
- Tags: Appliance, Software, GPL, Information Technology, SOA, TCO, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Another bop at BPEL; What's BPEL4People?
- Another bop at BPEL; What's BPEL4People?Get your facts straight ...BPMN stands for Business Process [b}Modeling[/b] Notation, it was first developed at BPMI.org, which toward the end of last year merged with the OMG. And it is not BPMN that is the standard that will make BPEL irrelevant, it is the...
- Tags: Business process automation, Web services, Human Interaction, Joe, BPEL, BPMN, BPDM, business process
- Discussion threads 2006-06-19
- People who need BPEL aren't the luckiest people...
- A new report discloses that Version 2.0 of the Business Process Execution Language BPEL is being delayed until the first half of 2006 while "technologists at OASIS continue sorting through approximately three dozen issues, whittled down from a list that had totaled around 230."InfoWorld's Paul Krill observes, however, that BPEL...
- Tags: BPEL, business process
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
- BPEL gets bopped... again
- BPEL gets bopped... againSome specific comments:* Saying that BPEL is useful for abstract processes but not for executableprocesses is out of touch with reality. Many vendors have support forexecutable BPEL processes today (Oracle, IBM, open source technologies likeActiveBPEL, etc). No one is using BPEL for abstract processes today. TheBPEL...
- Tags: Business process automation, Web services, BPEL technical committee, WSIF, BPEL
- Discussion threads 2005-10-28
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