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- Oracle Application Integration Architecture: Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- Business Process Management BPM includes a set of activities that organizations perform to either optimize their business processes or adapt them to new organizational needs. Important elements include Business Process modeling and Analysis BPA, orchestration BPEL, and Business Activity Monitoring BAM. This whitepaper focuses on the BPA element, outlines Oracle's...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Oracle Corp., Application Integration, Analysis, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-04-01
- ActiveVOS 6.0 helps extend SOA investments to the level of business-process outcomes
- The way they package and their tools helps reduce complexity in a unique way. I'd say that they have a fuller package as a solution than what I've seen elsewhere. And the depth of ActiveVOS OEM use testifies to the technical capabilities and adherence to standards. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Business Process, Developer, Business Process Modeling, Investment, SOA, ActiveVOS 6.0, Business Process Modeling Notation Model, Development License, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, It Operations, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Understanding Business Process Modeling: Learn What It Is, How It Works, and Why It's a Must for Any Organization
- Business process modeling is a discipline in and of itself. Business analysts typically perform the duties involved in it: defining and outlining business practices, processes, information flows, data stores, and systems. In other words, process models essentially lump processes of the same type into a model so that one can...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-08-19
- EA/Studio Community Edition 1.5.1 (Windows)
- 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, Microsoft Windows, EA/Studio Community Edition, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2008-03-18
- Process Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid the Common Traps of Business Process Modeling, Part 2
- This paper is the second in a series describing typical modeling errors extracted from hundreds of actual process models created in different tools, including IBM WebSphere Business Modeler. Part 1 discussed anti-patterns that occur when one needs to describe branching and iterative behavior in a business process model. This paper...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-04-04
- IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal - Process Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid the Common Traps of Business Process Modeling, Part 1
- This paper describes typical modeling errors extracted from hundreds of actual process models created in different tools, including WebSphere Business Modeler. These anti-patterns cover six common process modeling scenarios. Part 1 of this paper focuses on two scenarios around the modeling of control flow. The paper discusses anti-patterns that occur...
- Tags: Business Process, Developer, Business Process Modeling, IBM WebSphere, Modeling, IBM Corp., Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-02-28
- Essential Business Process Modeling: Prescription for a Good BPM Architecture
- BPM standards abound, each with a distinct design and feature set. This paper scavenges these approaches in search of a general BPM application architecture that is conceptually comprehensible and meets real-world requirements. A good architecture uses the technique of divide-and-conquer to reduce a difficult problem to smaller, more manageable parts,...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, BPM, Architecture, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software
- White papers 2005-08-08
- Business Process Modeling in Abstract Logic Tree
- Business process models are usually defined in a graphical modeling language. Most business process modeling languages are the analog of flow chart and UML Activity Diagram, which allows unstructured flow structures. Unstructured process models make it difficult to transform it to a structured business process model, such as BPEL4WS. This...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Model, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-11-19
- Business Process Modeling With UML
- This paper focuses the reasons and advantages of the application of the Unified Modeling Language UML in organizational architecture modeling. A presentation and description of the methodology to apply business modeling is made, namely, the organization of the modeling in views and the application of those views. A case study...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Modeling, INESC-ID, Research & Development, UML, Programming Languages, Business Operations, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-02-12
- Business Process Modeling and Simulation With UML Part I: Defining a UML Transaction Model That Maps to RUP Business Models
- Business modeling is an important activity in software development: For software to be useful, it must directly support the business. Once a sound business model is developed, it is possible to explore different business improvement options such as eliminating redundant tasks, and automating repetitive and mundane tasks or those prone...
- Tags: RUP, Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Business Model, IBM Corp., Business Modeling, UML, Programming Languages, Strategy, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management
- White papers 2004-02-09
- Business Process Modeling and Simulation With UML - Part II: Executing a UML Transaction Model With Rational Rose
- Business modeling is an important activity in software development, and the Rational Unified Process RUP provides a systematic approach to visually representing a business mode. It does not, however, provide a way to derive simulation models that support quantitative comparisons between various improvement options. This paper overviews how to execute...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, IBM Rational Rose, IBM Corp., Business Modeling, UML, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2004-01-22
- 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
- Understanding Business Process Modeling & Analysis: The First Step to Achieving Breakthroughs in Productivity Improvements
- This paper focuses on Business Process Modeling and Analysis BPMA, which leverages the computational power of modern software to enable organizations to document, model, understand and improve their business processes. BPMA software tools provide the ability to define and build a model of a business process and then use statistical...
- Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Ultimus, Operational Planning, Research & Development, Business Operations
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Knowledge Management Using Business Process Modeling and Workflow Techniques
- Enterprise Modeling EM methods are recognised for their value in providing a more organised way to describe a complex, informal domain. A problem with EM is that it does not always provide direct input for software system development. One way of bridging this gap is to provide a formalisation, here...
- Tags: Technique, Business Process, Business Process Modeling, Knowledge, Domain, Workflow, Knowledge Management, Modeling, University Of Edinburgh, Enterprise Modeling Method, FWFL, Operational Planning, Research & Development, Business Operations
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- Download Savvion's Free Business Process Modeling Software
- The first step in improving your business processes is to articulate precisely where bottlenecks exist, and the most efficient way to do that is by simulating your existing processes using business process modeling software. To help you get started, Savvion offers its Process Modeler, a component of...
- Tags: Business Process, Savvion, Business Process Modeling, Process Modeler, Operational Planning, Business Operations
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- SAP regaining its mojo?
- Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...
- Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- 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
- MySQL Workbench OSS 5.1.18 (Mac)
- MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, generate, and manage all types of databases including Web, OLTP, and data warehouse databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Database Design, OSS, MySQL Workbench, Databases, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-09-05
- Software engineers move over - the era of the media engineer
- Software engineers move over - the era of the media engineerI don't see this happeninggood engineers are good engineers; perhaps shoddy media engineers will be washed out of the process more quickly than shoddy programmers so perhaps you'll see this situation influence salary spreads since "bad aesthetics" speak louder...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Development tools, media engineer, Software Engineers, job
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Scheerware: Software AG scoops up BPM vendor
- Another big acquisition is in the works, and a vendor is putting big money into the increasingly overlapping SOA-business process management BPM space. Software AG just announced that it has signed a contract with Drs. August-Wilhelm Scheer and Alexander Pocsay to acquire IDS Scheer AG, a well-established BPM vendor, for...
- Tags: BPM, WebMethods Inc., Software AG, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Web Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
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