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Bridging the gap between BPM and SOA: look to the repository

The key to BPM-SOA alignment is having a common service registry/repository by Joe McKendrick

Tags: BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-11-06

BeaTunes 2.0.18 (Mac)

How well organized is your iTunes Library? Are your artists always spelled the same way? Any R.E.M. vs REM? beaTunes can easily fix this and other problems with its unique inspection feature (license required to apply one-click solutions). Could your last mix CD's song order use some improvement? Let beaTunes...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Song, BPM, Apple iTunes, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Digital Music, Strategy, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Management, Consumer Electronics, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03

BPM and SOA: Better Together

SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production.

Tags: BPM, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Middleware, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2009-10-28

Beat Runner 145 bpm for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Beat Runner 145 bpm for iPhone plays a series of drum loops sampled at 145 bpm whilst you run with your iPod in hand, or in pocket using the built in accelerometer to sense arm/leg movement. The aim of the game is to race faster than a ticking time bomb...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, BPM, Ian Edmundson, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-21

BlueWorks: The easy on-ramp to Business Process Management (BPM).

With BPM BlueWorks from IBM®, it's never been easier to get started with BPM. Using cloud-based processes and strategy tools, BPM BlueWorks allows you to capture and collaborate on BPM Business Designs, discover and contribute industry-specific BPM content and participate easily in the community. See how today.

Tags: Business Process, BPM, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2009-10-20

AudioFinder 4.9.7 (Mac)

AudioFinder is the digital musician's workflow accelerator, sample management system, and music production hub. AudioFinder gathers all the most useful tools in one quick and intuitive application, enabling you to be more creative by handling all the time consuming tasks that slow down your music production. AudioFinder can build a...

Tags: Playback, Apple Macintosh, Tool, Iced Audio, AudioFinder, Productivity, Business Process Automation, Digital Music, It Operations, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-19

DJ Mix Pro 3.0 build 64e (Windows)

DJ Mix Pro is designed to let you choose the songs while it performs by itself quality cross fading, beat matching mixes between songs. DJ Mix Pro has built in Beatlock Technology, that makes it beat-aware. This technology does not alter your sound files, it just analyses them to find...

Tags: Beat, Beatlock Technology, DJ Mix Pro, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-10-15

Tangerine! 1.3.8 (Mac)

Tangerine! lets you easily create playlists of upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. It works by analyzing the BPM and the beat intensity of your music. Spend your time listening to music, not making playlists.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Playlist, Music, Potion Factory, Business Process Automation, It Operations

Software downloads 2009-10-13

IBM Web Seminar: Dynamic Process Change to Optimize Cost and Agility.

Tune into this Web Seminar to hear BPM industry analysts, Dr. Bruce Silver and Amy Lipton share how dynamic BPM powered by the IBM® Smart SOATM approach can help you react quickly and drive ROI. After the seminar you'll receive a complimentary IBM BPM assessment for a targeted analysis of...

Tags: Web, BPM, IBM Corp., Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

Webcasts 2009-10-07

IBM® Industry Podcast series: Tips for Thriving in Today's Economy with BPM.

Today, more than ever, organizations must deliver the benefits of cost optimization and business agility. This Podcast series explains how that goal can be realized through dynamic Business Processes Management. The series focuses on banking, government, healthcare, insurance, cross-industry and retail.

Tags: BPM, Industry, Series, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Government, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Internet, It Operations, Business Operations

Download resources 2009-10-07

BeaTunes 2.0.16 (Windows)

How well organized is your iTunes Library? Are your artists always spelled the same way? Any R.E.M. vs REM? beaTunes can easily fix this and other problems with its unique inspection feature (license required to apply one-click solutions). Could your last mix CDs song order use some improvement? Let beaTunes...

Tags: Song, Microsoft Windows, Apple iTunes, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Digital Music, Digital Media, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Management, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-25

AV Mix Master 3.2.0.923 (Windows)

AV Mix Master 3 plays MP3 and WMA files. Features include but not limited to: separate soundcard support per player, preview player, searching, sound effects, such as: Pitch, Tempo, Flanger, Rotate; silence detection (cue points, mix points), BPM detection and BPM searching.

Tags: Detection, BPM, Microsoft Windows, AV Soft NL, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-24

Services or subtasks? SOA and BPM may mean the same thing

We've been debating on these pages whether SOA and business process management go together, or if they're actually two very different disciplines. Jason Bloomberg recently provided his take on the SOA-BPM discussion, saying that SOA and BPM are structurally the same. They may, in fact, be an...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Strategy, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Process isomorphism: The critical link between SOA and BPM

Process isomorphism in the SOA context is an isomorphism between a process on the one hand, and the SOBA that implements it on the other. In other words, if you were to model a business process, and as a separate exercise, model the composition of services that implements that process,...

Tags: BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Web Services, Business Process Automation, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Active Endpoints debuts ActiveVOS 7.0 with BPMN 2 support, improved RIA interfaces

ActiveVOS 7.0 has a new design canvas that uses the Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN 2.0 specification to create executable BPEL processes. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Rich Internet Application, ActiveVOS 7.0, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Web Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Deluxe Service on a Lean Budget: Lower Costs While Raising the Bar on Your Institution's Performance

Recent issues of Campus Technology, University Business, and the Educause Review sport prominent articles about doing more with less. The Educause association's current issues committee put "Funding IT" in first place on its 2009 Top-Ten Issues list, a spot it's held six times in ten years. It's no wonder: declining...

Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Optical Image Technology, Educause Association, Operational Planning, Performance Management, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Content Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-09-14

Advice: avoid SOA-BPM entanglements

Should SOA be viewed as 'the nail for BPM’s hammer'? by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Entanglement, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-09-08

BPM Success: Integration Is the Key

Business software integrations are similar, except a well-conceived integration delivers information with efficiency and consistency that vastly exceeds human potential. Integration makes it possible to tap into the tangle of business processes to get information wherever it resides and make it useful wherever it's needed. If the diverse software applications...

Tags: Business Software, BPM, Integration, Optical Image Technology, Business Software Integration, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2009-09-05

Hospital Revenue Cycle Management: Coordinating Data for Clean Claims and Better Service

Together, Enterprise Content Management ECM and Business Process Management BPM remove the burden of tracking and organizing, inform workers when tasks require special attention, and let employees focus their skills and energies where they're needed. Smart technology frees workers from the paper chase, letting them focus their time and resources...

Tags: Revenue, Hospital, Worker, Optical Image Technology, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, It Operations

White papers 2009-09-03

Persona-Based BPM: Filling in the Missing Links in Process Management

BMP can be transformational but far too often it is not because there are missing links in the common approach to process that limits results for the majority of initiatives. This whitepaper shows how to fill in the missing links by addressing the personal perspectives of the people involved in...

Tags: Process Management, BPM, Global 360 Inc., Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2009-09-01