{"id":208,"date":"2011-06-06T22:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2011-06-06T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T04:59:14","slug":"on-the-direction-of-ibm%e2%80%99s-business-process-manager-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"On The Direction of IBM\u2019s Business Process Manager – Advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quick Forward: In keen interest of fewer keystrokes-per-noun, I\u2019ll refer to IBM Business Process Manager Advanced as \u201ciBPM\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Think of a phat buffet \u2013 a Las Vegas buffet. All good \u2013 yes? This is iBPM Advanced: a nicely packaged collection of deep technologies spanning light-weight dojo widgets, through aggregation and hosting platforms, and on into security and high-availability.<\/p>\n

My first impression, though honestly skeptical, is good. We’re looking at the result of serious thinking and efforts on software tools and frameworks for building out and maintaining sustainable Business Process Management.<\/p>\n

The individual pieces within iBPM are, by themselves, point-solutions. These bits aren\u2019t new\u2026 Together though, in their aggregate form, a composite immerges with some voice and resonance as to direction\u2026<\/p>\n

An example?<\/p>\n

In the BPM space we usually end up wanting and then building several custom web-UIs (pages and widgets). String these pages together and you get a user-facing process with various back-end service integrations. Moving forward – within \u201ccorporate client\u201d each business unit has a need and each \u201cneed\u201d gets its own: look, feature, and function. Into this mix add the voice-of-reusability. The same web-UI is then tweaked\u2026 re-factoring, and so on until we end-up spending more time in polish.<\/p>\n

Measuring progress against business value (not building software), BPM projects tend to lose themselves early on low-value platitudes (look-n-feel and reusability) \u2013 all good for vision and heated debate but very bad on business. This isn\u2019t to say such topics lack importance. All must be heard\u2026<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s approach the \u201cUI-debate\u201d with a brick\u2026 as in building structures \u2013 one brick at a time. IBM-BPM Advanced brings in \u201cBusiness Space\u201d \u2013 this technology allows for the use and re-use of \u201cWeb 2.0\u201d widgets and functions. Rather than losing ourselves in debate, each end-user (literally) has the tools and building blocks for assembling their own uniquely personalized look-n-feel.<\/p>\n

The BPM team can now better specialize and deliver on re-usable components within a framework built for this pattern. The \u201cone-off\u201d solution is over\u2026 iBPM Advanced provides a nice framework for us to quickly bridge across a common BPM pitfall. The UI and re-usability debate ends with \u201cdrop-in\u201d Business Space (aka Mashup).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick Forward: In keen interest of fewer keystrokes-per-noun, I\u2019ll refer to IBM Business Process Manager Advanced as \u201ciBPM\u201d. Think of a phat buffet \u2013 a Las Vegas buffet. All good \u2013 yes? This is iBPM Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-management-bpm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/garysamuelson.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}