The IT organization at WGU launched a search for a BPM system that was standards-based, supported a services-oriented architecture and easily deployed and maintained on their own. After considering several of the other solutions (including JBoss jBPM and coding a solution themselves), WGU selected the ActiveVOS business process management system (BPMS) from Active Endpoints.

This Upside Research Implementation Brief takes a closer look at the university, its challenges, and its decision to select a model-driven BPMS over a set of non-integrated propriety tools as the foundation for its SOA architecture. It also examines the business impact of its BPM deployment.

Download the Active Endpoints Press Release below for more details.

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Western Governors University Realizes 80% Savings with Active Endpoints Business Process Management System

Starting with last week’s CTO Tuesdays and continuing with the episode posted below, we have increased our range to crucial technical decisions for BPM users which may have very long-term effects.

We are, to put it bluntly, very concerned that the marketplace is receiving — and accepting — incorrect information about the real relationship between BPEL and BPMN 2.0. Last week, Michael Rowley dispelled this myth in the abstract. This week, Michael has gone further: he actually shows what a two-toolset, two-engine BPMS environment with only a fig-leaf of integration looks like, using Oracle’s BPM Suite 11g and SOA Suite 11g as the poster children.

Yes, Oracle is a competitor. And yes, we have a “dog in the hunt,” as they say. Therefore, for sure, we have an opinion.

None of that undoes the fact that users should consider alternative points of view — views based, as we attempt to do, on the exact text and meaning of the BPMN 2.0 specification. And the fact that we have an opinion — and a product based on that belief — doesn’t undo the fact that much of the argument that BPMN should execute directly and that BPEL is passe is as self-serving as anything we may say.

So, I urge you to watch the replay of CTO Tuesdays attached to this post and to consider the alternative arguments we make. We’re not going to convince everybody, but we truly believe that the people who do consider their long-term BPMS strategy will find that BPMN as notation with BPEL execution is the better alternative.

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CTO Tuesdays #29: Oracle’s misguided approach to BPMN and BPEL

Among the many benefits of using a BPMS to manage collaboratively designed processes are that the BPMS has abundant knowledge about those processes.

Take that data…couple it with the end user’s awareness of the process (because he or she helped design the automated process) and you have possibly the richest source of information imaginable for reporting and visualization.

In this webinar replay, you can see how the ActiveVOS BPMS uses Actuate BIRT to deliver integrated reporting. And, you will learn how it is possible to put even greater control of reporting and analysis directly into the hands of the same users who designed an organization’s automated processes.

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BPM and BI: mix thoroughly for best results

You can see the very best of that loud-but-authentic aesthetic at work in episode 28 of CTO Tuesdays, the BPM podcast.

For too long — and, frankly, for reasons that mystify me — some voices have spoken of a “conflict” between BPMN and BPEL. It has always seemed to me that those points of view — that BPMN 2.0 is somehow a “successor” or “replacment” for BPEL –  have an agenda that’s more about their preferred results in the marketplace than about the “best” or the “right” thing for users. IOW, politicking is at play.

But, as we all know, in politics, negative campaigning works. “BPEL is dead;” “BPMN 2.0 execution obviates BPEL.” These misstatements have gained far more attention than they deserve. They have escalated to the level of myth — or worse, conventional wisdom — both of which can have lives very separate from reality.

Our response: BPMN 2.0 is better with BPEL execution for users for a plethora of reasons. Far from dead, BPEL’s fundamental mistake of not specifying a visual notation is cured by BPMN 2.0. And BPMN 2.0 achieves its highest likelihood of success when coupled with BPEL execution.

Still, the myth that these two crucial standards are in conflict persists. Watch this podcast replay to see and hear Michael Rowley debunk these myths — passionately and accurately.

And be sure to join us next week for episode 29, titled “Oracle’s misguided approach to BPMN and BPEL” for even more myth-busting. Register at http://www.activevos.com/ctot.

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CTO Tuesdays #28: Debunking the myth of conflict between BPMN and BPEL

In Aciviti’s lexicon, however, an “embedded” BPMS is the answer to a set of problems involving cost. But the real answers to the cost issues Activiti raises aren’t primarily technological…because those issues come from BPMS vendors’ business models and their product design (or, in the case of BPMSs cobbled together by acquisition, lack of product design). Naturally, we believe we have licked these problems in ActiveVOS.

OTOH, there are some serious, fundamental problems with the embedded BPM approach Activiti promotes. And the webinar replay attached to this post explores these issues. We hope you enjoy it.

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Standalone BPM: alive and kickin’

The details are in the press release attached to this post.

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ActiveVOS BPMS named to SD Times 100 for second consecutive year

In this talk, Michael Rowley, Active Endpoints’ CTO discusses how a business process management suite (BPMS) can provide the infrastructure necessary to survive serious disruptions.

There are several previous CTO Tuesdays episodes which are related to this topic and which you might also find interesting:

• CTO Tuesdays #16: The state of BPMS state: persistence for process
• CTO Tuesdays #17: How BPMSs support long-running business
• CTO Tuesdays #25: BPM 911 – how a BPMS calls for help

Together, these podcasts make a compelling case that BPM-style development has the features and capabilities necessary for enterprises to be comfortable placing their most crucial processes on BPM suites.

Please register for next week’s live recording of the podcast at http://www.activevos.com/ctot.

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CTO Tuesdays #27: BPMS and disaster recovery

Zero is probably the correct answer. It doesn’t matter whether or not you think mainframe technology is cool or not (I happen to admire it, but that’s another story). The chances are overwhelming that you will have to include mainframe systems in your deployed processes.

So, watch the replay of a webinar we presented with Active Endpoints partner and mainframe technologists extraordinaire GT Software to see how easy and accessible including mainframe technology into your processes can be.

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Leveraging mainframes for BPM success

This summer, Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley and industry analyst, blogger and BPM expert Sandy Kemsley are presenting a series of webinars focusing on the “human aspects” of BPM.

On Wednesday, June 9, we presented How to Explain BPMN to Business Users, which featured an overview of proposed subsets of BPMN 2.0 designed for specific roles, a demonstration of the ActiveVOS BPMN modeler and an interesting discussion of the future of BPMN. A replay of this fascinating presentation is attached to this post below.

Our third and final session of BPM Summer Camp is titled Five Things You Should Never, Ever Try in Process Development and will be presented on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 12pm EDT / 9am PDT / 16:00 UTC. Please register for this free webinar here.

You can also watch a replay of the first session here.

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BPM Summer Camp session 2 webinar replay

Michael Rowley discusses how WS-HumanTask, coupled with capabilities provided by JSON and AJAX make it possible to eliminate presentation tier services on application servers for worklist management and process initiation in BPMSs.

It’s a look into how the browser, courtesy of AJAX techniques, has become so powerful for presentation logic that it has obviated the need for extra server-side work. While that may not be the latest news, what is fascinating is the application of these capabilities to BPM — and the inside look at the protocol enabled by the move of presentation logic to the client.

A note: I had a problem with the recoding of this podcast. The bad news is for the first couple of minutes, you’ll hear me give my welcome and introduction to the webinar, but you won’t see my PowerPoint slides. The good news is, once Michael begins his talk, you will see everything perfectly.

Update: During the Q&A in this episode, a user asks about parsing JSON on the server side. One of our engineers, PJ, heard that question and offers this answer:

Here’s a link to the JSON specs and libs and links to for parsing in Java, C, C++, ASP, PHP, etc.: http://json.org/

In ActiveVOS, you do not need to parse JSON because it is automatically converted to XML by the ActiveVOS engine and passed into the Receive (or onEvent) activity in your process. So, in ActiveVOS, one works with XML using XQuery & XPath.

For those using REST based services and want to parse JSON or respond with JSON, they can use the following extension functions:abx:jsonToXml(jsonStr) -> returns XML element
abx:xmlToJson(xmlElement) -> return JSON string

For more information, in ActiveVOS’s Expression dialog picklist, see Functions->BPEL->ActiveVOS->JSON

PJ also notes that we have documentation on using JSON in ActiveVOS at http://www.activevos.com/dev/sdks/XML-JSON-Binding/docs/Part1-ActiveVOS-XML-JSON-API.html and sample code in our SDKs at http://www.activevos.com/developers-sdks.php.

Thanks, PJ.

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CTO Tuesdays #26: Eliminating the presentation tier

Der Video-Podcast gliedert sich in drei Teile:
1. Übersicht über die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von ActiveVOS
2. Demonstration der BPMS-Kernfunktionalitäten (Live-Demo)
3. Frage und Antworten

Für die vereinfachte Wiedergabe bieten wir vier verschiedene Multimediaformate an. Falls Sie ein iPhone, iPod touch und/oder iPad besitzen, empfehlen wir den Download des mv4-Formats. Alternativ steht das Video selbstverständlich auch als Flash-Datei, bzw. WMV für die Wiedergabe im Windows Media Player 9 zur Verfügung. Die Folien der Präsentation können zusätzlich zu den einzelnen Videos als PDF heruntergeladen werden.

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Deutschsprachige Demonstration von ActiveVOS

If that’s happening in your enterprise, it’s a real shame. Watch the replay of this webinar in which Neil and Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley make a business and technology argument for linking BPM and SOA initiatives in your organization. It’s a compelling case…and one we hope you will consider adopting in your organization.

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BPM and SOA: making the right connections

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CTO Tuesdays #25: BPM 911 – how a BPMS calls for help

This summer, Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley and industry analyst, blogger and BPM expert Sandy Kemsley are presenting a series of webinars focusing on the “human aspects” of BPM.

Sign up for Sessions 2 and 3 here. Watch the replay of Session 1, Team Dynamics in BPM Projects, below. You can watch the replay of Session 2, How to Explain BPMN to Business Users here.

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BPM Summer Camp session 1 webinar replay

But in this BPM podcast, you’ll see how well-thought-out BPMSs tackle this very fundamental problem — and how easy it can be to manage “problem” services. In fact, there’s so much choice in both design and deployment of BPM applications, next week’s CTO Tuesdays will expand on the ideas presented in this episode.

Be sure to watch this episode if you are working with a BPMS — and join us for part 2 next week. Register at http://www.activevos.com/ctot.

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CTO Tuesdays #24: How to be prepared for services that might go down

We are pleased to present the latest episode of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight Edition. This time, Dana and his panel (which this time includes Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley) tackles the technologies that will be dominating the future of client user interfaces. It’s a fascinating discussion…enjoy.

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BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #52: The Future of Client Architectures – HTML5 and more

Tomorrow on CTO Tuesdays #24, Michael Rowley will cover the crucial topic of what to do when a web service that is required by a process application isn’t available. Register for the webinar here.

We’ve long argued that processes defined using a BPM (business process management) discipline which are automated should be developed using a services-based environment. But what happens when those services aren’t available? Join us on Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at noon EDT, 9am PDT, 16:00 GMT to explore your BPMS options for this eventuality.

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Tomorrrow on “CTO Tuesdays:” How to be prepared for services that might go down

As always, you can join us live for CTO Tuesdays by signing up at http://www.activevos.com/ctot.

We hope you will join us.

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CTO Tuesdays #23: Escalation – what to do when something doesn’t happen

In this episode, Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley tackles a more complex case for correlation: when you can’t use engine-managed correlation because the developer doesn’t have control of the client in a business process. This episode reviews the terms used in correlation and then walks through a simplified procurement process to illustrate the concept.

As always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions. And we hope you will be able to join us for the live recording of CTO Tuesdays ever Tuesday at noon ET.

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CTO Tuesdays #22: Complex correlation scenarios

Well, I’ve been waiting a very long time to write a blog post that mentions that in the ABC TV series “Lost” the famous hatch where the button had to be pushed every 108 minutes had some very retro, old-school tech in it.

After searching and searching, I finally found a still on a fan website from the show’s second season that clearly shows a pair of IBM 3420 mainframe tape drives. Say what?

The Dharma Initiative was using IBM mainframe technology on the island in 1974? What did they need data storage for? Why are the tape drives always empty? What do those cool lights shining up from the bottom of the unit mean? (There were no lights there on the original 3420s.) How come I am the only person to have noticed these antiques in the hatch? (OK, not the only one. But a lot more people are wondering about the meaning of the smoke monster, or whether the Island is Hell — and all I want to know is what OS they were running on these things..MVS, VSE or the progenitor of all things virtual, VM/370.)

Lemme tell ya, these babies could store up to 150MB per 10″ tape reel! And to speed access, the drive “sucked” the tape down into the vacuum columns you can see on either side of the lighted area on the bottom of the tape drive. And, believe it or not, these things “burped” when you unloaded them — which depending on the version of the operating system the mainframe was running, sometimes had to be done manually.

So, what’s all this have to do with the content of CTO Tuesdays #21? Easy: for all the jokes about outdated mainframe(rs) and their never-very-cool reputation compared to the then-nascent PC, mainframes matter. They mattered then…and, to the surprise of no one who’s ever worked on them, they matter today.

On this episode of CTO Tuesdays, Michael Rowley turns the con over to Rob Morris and Dusty Rivers of GT Software, who describe an elegant and practical way of linking everything on a mainframe — CICS transactions, IMS queues, VSAM keyed datasets, raw 3270 data streams…you name it — to a modern BPMS like ActiveVOS. This is done via standard web services, using WSDLs to define available mainframe services.

Simply, if you have mainframe technology in your organization (and, frankly if you are in financial services, telecommunications and/or entertainment & media, we’d bet you do) and you want to write business processes that live up to the promise of flexibly integrating both people and systems, you gotta watch this podcast.

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CTO Tuesdays #21: Building business processes with mainframe inclusion

Completing a “trilogy” of sorts that started with CTOT #18 and continued in CTOT #19, Michael Rowley covers the concepts — and politics — behind REST, the representational state transfer protocol.

This episode is a must-see for anyone interested in protocols and comparing and contrasting REST with SOAP.

We promised to include this link to the WS-* standards that was shown in the discussion: http://www.innoq.com/soa/ws-standards/poster/innoQ%20WS-Standards%20Poster%202007-02.pdf

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CTO Tuesdays #20 : Using REST for business processes

Details of how AAPT has used BPM to change the way it develops applications are in the press release attached to this post.

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Australian Telecom AAPT goes live with ActiveVOS applications

In this very interesting episode, Michael Rowley covers the (somewhat sad) history of URNs (complete with a screen shot of the entire web, circa 1991). Rowley then details how and why URNs are useful in process applications. A panel discussion follows the formal presentation.

Next week on CTOT: Rowley completes the story arc he started on CTOT #18 (using email-based approvals for processes) and which continued in CTOT #19 with a discussion of REST — the representational state transfer protocol. Don’t miss it: register at http://www.activevos.com/ctot.

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CTO Tuesdays #19: Using URNs to avoid hard-coding service locations

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Active Endpoints Triples New Customer Revenue in Q1 2010

We use the peanut-butter and jelly metaphor a lot. That’s because it expresses how “tasty” it is when two technologies are made for each other. (Though if you have other metaphors for this kind of happy mixture, please let me know. I’m metaphor-poor today.)

That’s how ActiveVOS and BIRT are together. ActiveVOS creates all the information businesses want for visibility into their processes; BIRT makes it simple to access that information in any number of attractive and revealing ways.

In this podcast, my guest is Ray Gans who runs the birt-exchange.org community — the destination for people interested in using BIRT to deliver that visibility across their organizations.

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VOSibilities podcast #47: The BIRT Exchange community

Be sure to join us live for CTO Tuesdays every Tuesday at noon ET, 9am PT, 16:00 GMT. Register here: http://www.activevos.com/ctot. Next week’s topic (CTO Tuesdays #19 for April 6, 2010) will be “Using URNs to avoid hard-coding service locations.”

If you watch the replay of #18, you’ll see that Michael is using URNs in the most classical way: to map logical names in the business process to physical URLs in the real world. Based on the feedback we got about this, Michael has decided to devote an entire episode to URNs in business processes.

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CTO Tuesdays #18: Handling approvals by email in business processes

We are especially excited that Neil chose to focus on the integration of complex event processing (CEP) into ActiveVOS. This report describes how powerful the combination of BPM and CEP can be and makes a point we have long asserted: that CEP shouldn’t be a separate thing. Instead, it should be integrated into the core of the BPMS.

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MWD Advisors: ActiveVOS “… hits the event-driven BPM sweet spot”

Originally recorded on March 25, 2010, this webinar explains what a digital business is and describes the technological approaches that are possible to achieving digital processes using SOA and BPM. A demonstration of the ActiveVOS BPMS is given to illustrate some of the concepts of a digital business. A stimulating Q&A with attendees follows.

There are multiple formats attached to this post, including a Flash version that can be streamed from the blog.

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VOSibilities podcast #46: SOA, BPM and building your digital business

We are pleased to present the latest edition of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight Edition podcast. This time, Dana and an all-star group of analysts, including Sandy Rogers, David Linthicum and Michael Krigsman, tell you what you need and want to know about the economic implications of cloud computing.

At the end of 45 minutes listening to these very smart people, I didn’t want the discussion to end. It’s just that informative. We hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we did.

A transcript of the podcast is also attached to this post.

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BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #51: The Economics of Cloud Computing

This episode is the second of two on persistence and compensation. If you haven’t seen the previous episode, you might find it interesting to review before watching this one.

Four files are attached to this post. Three are video recordings of the podcast in different formats; the fourth is a PDF of the slides Rowley presented.

Please be sure to sign up for our next CTO Tuesdays, scheduled for March 30, 2010 at noon ET. The topic will be “Handling approvals by email in business processes.”

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CTO Tuesdays #17: How BPMSs support long-running business transactions

You can see ActiveVOS in the BIRT marketplace here.

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Perform Magazine: Using BIRT in ActiveVOS

We hope you enjoy this podcast. We’d love to hear your feedback on the series. Just email us or leave a comment here.

Remember: sign up for next week’s CTO Tuesdays here. We will be expanding on persistence to talk about BPMS support for long-running transactions.

Update 3/17: in case you missed the second part, you can watch the replay here.

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CTO Tuesdays #16: The state of BPMS state: persistence for process

There are three formats of the webinar attached to this post. For iTunes and iPod touch/iPhone users, an .m4v is available. A Flash file that can be streamed from the blog and/or downloaded is attached and a Windows Media 9 .wmv is also available.

Please remember to register for next week’s CTO Tuesdays at http://www.activevos.com/ctot

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CTO Tuesdays #15: Using Java with business processes

Attached to this post are two PDFs. First, a press release announcing the results and, second, a copy of Ovum’s conclusions along with their “radar” (or detailed report) on ActiveVOS.

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Ovum BPMS report adds ActiveVOS to “consider” list

There are three formats attached to this post. First, an iPod touch/iPhone-formatted .m4v. We also have a Flash file that can be streamed from the blog and a Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv.

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VOSibilities podcast #45: An introduction to T-Impact

But you’d be missing a really interesting and, dare I say it, fun topic. Trust me.

This week Michael Rowley tackles bugs in BPMSs. Bugs are just a part of life when creating business applications. But what about when you are creating process applications using a model-based BPMS? What happens then? How does the BPMS help you identify — even prevent and eliminate — bugs? Watch this episode to find out how standards like BPMN 2.0 and BPEL work together to help make designing and executing process applications more error-free.

As always, we have three formats of the podcast posted. There’s an iPod touch/iPhone .m4v; a Flash file that can be streamed from the blog and a Windows Media 9 .wmv.

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CTO Tuesdays #14: Preventing problems through static analysis of business processes

But what is the state of BPMN 2.0 usage in the real world? This webinar, originally broadcast on February 18, 2010, offers some answers.

The bottom line? BPMN 2.0 usage is gaining traction — it’s becoming the modeling notation of choice for everything from documentation to creating executable process applications. If you are interested in what BPMN can do for you, you will want to watch this webinar replay to learn more about BPMN and how people are using it today. Watch Sandy Kemsley show you how not to create BPMN models as she parades models from the “BPMN modeling hall of shame.” And you can also watch as Michael Rowley shows you how to make BPMN executable with BPEL. At the end of the webinar is a very stimulating Q&A in which Kemsley and Rowley discuss the future of the BPMN specification and answer attendees’ questions.

A variety of formats are attached to this post, including a Flash format that can be streamed from the blog. Also, the slides Sandy and Michael presented are available in PDF form.

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VOSibilities podcast #44: The state of BPMN: an update from the real world

That’s how we feel about business process management systems (BPMS) and enterprise content management systems (ECM). These two important technologies are made for each other.

If you have an important business process you want to automate, it’s likely to have people, processes and documents that all need to work together. And, you are likely to want everything to work together based on open, industry-wide standards. We’d go so far as to say, it’s an absolute requirement that the BPMS and ECM be totally based on standards.

That’s what Alfresco and ActiveVOS offer together. The best capabilities; the most openness.

Watch the replay of this webinar — and the absolutely brilliant demo of ActiveVOS BPMS and Alfresco ECM working together — to see how you can quickly, easily and compatibly produce better process applications for your organization.

There are three formats attached to this post, along with a PDF of the slides presented in the webinar. First is an iPod touch/iPhone-formatted .m4v. Second, a Flash .flv file that can be downloaded or played from the blog. Third, a Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv is available.

We hope you enjoy this introduction to combining BPM and ECM technologies.

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VOSibilities podcast #43: Combining BPMS and ECM for better process applications

There are three versions of the podcast attached to this post. First, an iPod touch/iPhone-formatted .m4v file (also available in the iTunes Store; seach for “vosibilities”). Second, a Flash .flv file which can be viewed here on the blog and/or downloaded. Third, a Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv file.

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CTO Tuesdays #13: Viewing and fixing running processes

Enjoy these predictions of the important trends in enterprise computing for 2010. It’s a little bit late, but worth the wait.

For example, one panelist predicts that “cloud crashes” will have an impact in 2010. Conspiracy theorists may speculate that we’ve already had one major cloud crash in 2010 and that Google’s announcement that it might leave China is one way of not discussing the fact that Gmail — a major cloud app — was hacked.

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BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #49: 2010 top predictions

Three versions of the podcast are attached. An iPod touch/iPhone-formatted .m4v, a Flash file that can be downloaded and/or played from the blog and a Windows Media 9-formatted .wmv

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VOSibilities podcast #42: Where does BPM go now? A business and technology perspective

Attached to this post are three versions of the webinar. First is an iPod-formatted .m4v file. Second, a Flash .flv. Third, we have attached a Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv. Finally, we have also attached a PDF of the presentation John delivered.

We hope you enjoy this episode of CTO Tuesdays. We hope, over time, to have additional guest CTOs on the podcast to talk about complementary technologies. And we’d love to hear your suggestions for topics as well as your comments and feedback.

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CTO Tuesdays #12: ECM and BPMS Working Together

We are pleased to present the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight Edition with Dana Gardner. This time, Dana and his panel offer a much more insightful discussion than you are likely to have heard elsewhere of the ramifications of Google’s challenge to China’s online policies.

We hope you enjoy the podcast.

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BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #50: The Google-China tiff

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Alfresco CTO to present on “CTO Tuesdays”

Three versions of the webinar are attached to this post: an iPod-formatted .m4v file, a Flash .flv file and a Windows Media 9-formatted .wmv.

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CTO Tuesdays #11: Structured and unstructured BPMN modeling

Attached to this post is the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights podcast from Dana Gardner. This time, Dana talks with David Foote about the state of the jobs market in IT for 2010.

We hope you enjoy the podcast.

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BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #49: IT Jobs Market for 2010

There are three formats available. First, an iPod-formatted .m4v. Second, a Flash .flv file which can be streamed directly from the blog or downloaded. Third, a Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv. The .wmv file is about 55MB in size; the other two are about 96MB.

Please feel free to request an evaluation of ActiveVOS to begin to apply what you see and learn in this webinar to your business processes.

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VOSibilities podcast #41: ActiveVOS 7 and IBM Rational Requirements Composer

However, we realize that this is a very inconvenient time for people in Asia-Pacific and some other time zones. So, we occasionally record the most recent webinar and post it to the blog. Attached to this post are three versions of the same recording. One, a .m4v file, is intended for iPod touch/iPhone users and is also available in our podcast feed. Second is a Flash .flv file (which can also be played directly on the blog). Finally, there’s an Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv. These files are large, because the webinar lasted over an hour. But the content is worth the download time.

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VOSibilities podcast #40: ActiveVOS 7 demonstration

We have posted three formats of the webinar replay. First is an iPod-formatted .m4v file. Also, a Flash file that can be played from the blog and/or downloaded. Finally, we have included a Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv file.

Please join us every week at noon ET, 9am PT and 17:00 GMT for CTO Tuesdays.

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CTO Tuesdays #10 Using requirements gathering tools with a BPMS

In our first episode of the new year, Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley covers some basic theory of how complex event processing (CEP) works and makes the case for integrating a CEP engine directly into the BPM engine. Topics covered include the Event Processing Language (EPL), time windows as a method of correlating disparate events and event streams. In short, a fascinating — and accessible — introduction to a hot technical topic.

We have attached several formats of the webinar replay to this post. First, for iTunes subscribers, we have a .m4v file, perfect for taking along on your iPod. RSS feed subscribers will automatically receive this file. Also, there’s a .flv file which can be played directly on the blog (click where it says “click here” to play it). Also, we have attached a Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv file. Finally, the slides Michael presented are attached as a .pdf.

Be sure to join us live every Tuesday at noon ET, 9am PT, 17:00 UTC for a new topic. You can always register for the upcoming CTO Tuesdays webinar at http://www.activevos.com/ctot. Replays are usually posted here on our blog within 48 hours.

We have an exciting agenda of upcoming episodes, and later in the first part of Q1, we hope to guest CTOs join us for their perspectives on technical topics. We hope you will join us live each week.

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CTO Tuesdays #9: BPM as an event source for CEP