Read about BIRT reporting in ActiveVOS in this story from a recent issue of Perform Magazine. Our Sr. Director of Products, Luc Clément, was interviewed for this story. Luc describes how BIRT reporting leverages a BPMS’s capabilities to deliver visibility into business operations.
You can see ActiveVOS in the BIRT marketplace here.
Perform Magazine: Using BIRT in ActiveVOS: Download (305)This time on CTO Tuesdays, the BPMS podcast, we discuss what persistence of state offers process developers and BPM users. Michael Rowely, host of the podcast and CTO at Active Endpoints discusses what persistence is, how it works and what the potential performance costs might be.
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 [50:18m]: Download (479)In this episode of CTO Tuesdays (our 15th!), Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley discusses an elegant way of bridging the world of BPEL and the Java world. Then, after the technical presentation, Rowley discusses in the Q&A how, when and why process developers might want to use Java in their processes and warns against “speaking BPEL with an accent.”
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
CTO Tuesdays #15: Using Java with business processes [37:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (519) CTO Tuesdays #15: Using Java with business processes [37:00m]: Download (175) CTO Tuesdays #15: Using Java with business processes [36:51m]: Download (813)We are honored to have been added to Ovum’s list of BPMSs to consider in their latest decision matrix on business process management.
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.
Attached to this post is a replay of a webinar we recently presented with our UK partner, T-Impact. T-Impact has deep expertise in BPM in industries like telecom. In this webinar, they detail their approach to BPM and how they use ActiveVOS to deliver process applications for their clients.
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.
VOSibilities podcast #45: An introduction to T-Impact [65:25m]: Download (397) VOSibilities podcast #45: An introduction to T-Impact [65:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (354) VOSibilities podcast #45: An introduction to T-Impact [65:30m]: Download (104)OK, I know…the title “preventing problems through static analysis” doesn’t exactly make you want to spend 40 minutes watching the replay of episode #14 of our weekly tech talk on BPMS technology.
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.
CTO Tuesdays #14: Preventing problems through static analysis of business processes [37:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (402) CTO Tuesdays #14: Preventing problems through static analysis of business processes [37:17m]: Download (161) CTO Tuesdays #14: Preventing problems through static analysis of business processes [37:12m]: Download (470)BPMN 2.0 is a hot topic. From documenting processes to creating executable process models that combine system and human tasks, BPMN is on everyone’s lips.
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.
VOSibilities podcast #44: The state of BPMN: an update from the real world [87:30m]: Download (556) VOSibilities podcast #44: The state of BPMN: an update from the real world [87:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (703) VOSibilities podcast #44: The state of BPMN: an update from the real world [87:36m]: Download (236) VOSibilities podcast #44: The state of BPMN: an update from the real world: Download (323)There’s peanut butter and jelly. Noodles and chopsticks. Ducks and water. All perfect together…even made for each other.
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.
VOSibilities podcast #43: Combining BPMS and ECM for better process applications [62:55m]: Download (751) VOSibilities podcast #43: Combining BPMS and ECM for better process applications [62:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (944) VOSibilities podcast #43: Combining BPMS and ECM for better process applications [62:55m]: Download (872) VOSibilities podcast #43: Combining BPMS and ECM for better process applications: Download (299)One of the most important — and useful — capabilities of a BPMS is its ability to view, alter and fix running processes. In this edition of CTO Tuesdays, Michael Rowley explores this topic and demonstrates what any good BPMS should be capable of delivering to BPMS users and developers.
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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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.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #49: 2010 top predictions [57:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1926) BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #49: 2010 top predictions - transcript: Download (126)Attached to this post is a recording of a webinar originally delivered on February 3, 2010 that features Dennis Callaghan, principle analyst, enterprise software, The 451 Group. The topic was Where does BPM go now? A business and technology perspective. Callaghan reviews the consolidation in the BPM marketplace and discusses his predictions of the near-term future for BPM. This is coupled with a demonstration of the ActiveVOS BPMS, which is used to illustrate what is possible in a pure-play BPMS today.
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
VOSibilities podcast #42: Where does BPM go now? A business and technology perspective [65:57m]: Download (287) VOSibilities podcast #42: Where does BPM go now? A business and technology perspective [65:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (497) VOSibilities podcast #42: Where does BPM go now? A business and technology perspective [66:02m]: Download (197)This episode of CTO Tuesdays features our first guest CTO. John Newton, CTO and chairman of Alfresco Software, joins Michael Rowley to discuss how enterprise content management systems (ECM) can be combined with business process management systems (BPMS) to create compelling end-to-end business applications. ActiveVOS and Alfresco implement the new Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS), enabling these two important technologies to work together to produce a new generation of business process applications.
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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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.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #50: The Google-China tiff [46:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1773) BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #50: The Google-China tiff: Download (128)We are very pleased to announce that John Newton, CTO of Alfresco Software, will be our guest on CTO Tuesdays this week. Details are in the media advisory attached to this post. Register for the webinar at http://www.activevos.com/ctot
Alfresco CTO to present on "CTO Tuesdays": Download (309)On this episode of CTO Tuesdays, we explore an important concept in software modeling: structured vs. unstructured modelers. Examples of both types are compared and contrasted. Also, the ActiveVOS BPMN 2.0 modeler, which blends the best of both types of modelers is demonstrated.
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.
CTO Tuesdays #11: Structured and unstructured BPMN modeling [46:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (465) CTO Tuesdays #11: Structured and unstructured BPMN modeling [46:14m]: Download (228) CTO Tuesdays #11: Structured and unstructured BPMN modeling [46:13m]: Download (496)
