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BriefingsDirect analysts discuss solutions for bringing human interactions into business process workflows

It's critically important that the leading BPM and workflow vendors get on board with this standard. ... This is critically important for SOA, where SOA applications for human workflows are at the very core of the application. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Business Process, BPM, Workflow, BPEL4People, Complex Event Processing, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-12

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

Additional Resources

Active Endpoints aims at greater process design and implementation productivity with ActiveVOS enhancements

Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration system, has kicked things up a notch with the recent release of ActiveVos 6.1, which incorporates new features and functions designed to make developers more productive. The latest offering from the Waltham, Mass. company provides what amounts to shrink-wrapped...

Tags: Business Process, Developer, BPM, BPEL, ActiveVos 6.1, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18

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