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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

BPMN and Business Process Management - An Introduction to the New Business Process Modeling Standard

This paper provides an in-depth introduction to the new BPMN standard, illustrating how it is used to model business processes and web services. The paper also provides greater detail on how BPMN fits within BPM, BPEL?s, BPMS?s, UML and other new industry standards and initiatives described above. BPMN provides a...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, BPM, Popkin Software, BPMN, Operational Planning, UML, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, It Operations

White papers 2004-01-21

Additional Resources

More Microsoft 'Oslo' modeling details fall into place

While Microsoft isn't planning to provide testers with "Oslo" code until late October, the company did finally start putting some real meat on its software-modeling bones at the TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando this week. Until this week, Microsoft would say next-to-nothing about Oslo. Until the TechEd...

Tags: Repository, Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-05

BizAgi Process Modeler (exe)

The first step in the task of improving operational efficiency of an organization is to define its processes. The BizAgi BPMN Process Modeler enables you to diagram and document your processes in a quick and easy way. The BizAgi BPMN Process Modeler is a freeware application that you can download...

Tags: Process, Freeware, BizAgi, BizAgi BPMN Process Modeler

Software downloads 2008-04-25

EA/Studio Community Edition (zip)

EA/Studio Community Edition is a free business process modeling BPM tool that allows you to build, manage and understand complex business processes, and is based on the BPMN standard. It includes configurable importing capabilities that let you import diagrams from Microsoft Visio and Excel. This version is the first release...

Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Embarcadero Technologies, EA/Studio Community Edition, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-03-18

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

EA/Studio (exe)

Embarcadero EA/Studio Business Modeler Edition is a process modeling and architecture tool that lets business users and data architects work together to document business processes and how those processes use data. Bringing together the simplicity of a drawing tool with the rich semantics of the BPMN standard, EA/Studio allows companies...

Tags: Business Process, Embarcadero Technologies, Operational Planning, Productivity, Research & Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2007-10-12

To understand SOA, map it without technology

There's been no shortage of confusion around the true meaning of SOA, and plenty of contention around what constitutes "true" SOA versus what people think is SOA. Do legacy apps exposed as services constitute SOA? Do Enterprise Service Buses constitute SOA? Does having a registry and repository constitute SOA? What...

Tags: SOA, Bob, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Byzio Pro (zip)

Byzio Pro dramatically improves the design iterations and implementation time of business process and use cases for systems development efforts. Use BPMN to capture process and step data with output to MS Word, CSV, XML and round trip XPDL 2.0. Ability to validate the diagrams to ensure compliance to the...

Tags: Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-07-13

SOA demands a new 80-20 rule for application development

SOA demands a new 80-20 rule for application developmentApplication development has greater priorities than SOAThere is no dispute SOA will make life easier in the future to connect and reuse suitable services many of which may be external. However to put future application development dependent upon SOA misses the point...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Software development, Middleware, application development, calculation task, system task, user task, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-07-09

SOA so simple even a caveman can do it?

Is SOA fighting complexity with more complexity? For years, vendors have been promoting the thought that the complexities of IT infrastructure can be abstracted away, and even businesspeople or at least analysts would be able to design high-level business process flows while the technological underpinnings underneath automatically fall into place.The...

Tags: General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-02-22

SOA analysts examine TIBCO's SOA tools, ESBs as platform, webMethods Fabric 7, HP's foray into BI

Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 9, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine TIBCOs latest SOA tools news, the role of ESBs as...

Tags: .NET, database, datacenters, HP, IBM, Interarbor Solutions, Microsoft, Oracle, Podcasts, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems, Virtualization, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-02-18

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

Business Process Visual Architect Modeler Edition (exe)

BP-VA is a full-featured business process modeler seriously supporting latest OMG's Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN. BP-VA provides the most easy-to-use diagramming environment for you to model your business process that can help in designing and organizing your business process. BP-VA is a proven solution to bridge the gap between...

Tags: Business Process, BP-VA, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2006-05-14

New Product Announcement: Select Component Factory 6.0

Select Component Factory V6.0 is now Generally Available. The new product upgrade contains BPMN Diagrams and Business Process Simulation, a new Java Eclipse Synchronizer, Extended Database Modeling and Design Support as well as other great enhancements and features. Select Business Solutions now supports all the contemporary notation for Business Process...

Tags: Business Process, Factory, Operational Planning, UML, Programming Languages, Business Operations, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2005-09-16

Process Modeler (exe)

Sharing the visions of BPMI.org, itp commerce' Standard Edition of Process Modeler for Microsoft Visio is based on its BPMN specification and offers a professional toolset for Business Process Modeling using the rich functionality of the widespread Microsoft Office product family. Standard Edition offers following main features: 100% BPMN 1.0...

Tags: Microsoft Visio, Process Modeler, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2004-11-17

A Hitchhiker's Guide to SOA: Orchestrating Loosely-Coupled J2EE Services With BPMN and BPEL

This webcast discusses how to design, implement, and orchestrate advanced loosely-coupled Java technology services that allow enterprises to achieve the dynamic flexibility of composite applications based on a service-oriented architecture SOA. In the enterprise many factors come into play, which varies the response time of remote applications or systems. Server...

Tags: SOA, BPEL, Java Technology, Hitchhiker, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java, Web Services, Programming Languages, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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