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Comment on CTO Tuesdays two-part mini-series by Column 2 : links for 2010-03-08

Column 2 : links for 2010-03-08 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:02:01 +0000

[...] BPMS podcast to discuss persistence, transaction for BPM | VOSibilities I often tune in for Active Endpoints' CTO Tuesdays podcasts, since Michael Rowley provides some good technical depth about BPM. This week: part 1 of 2 on state, persistence and long-running processes. This is a classic problem with system-centric systems that are trying to become human-centric, since many human-centric processes are, by their nature, long-running, whereas many system-centric are STP that complete in a matter of minutes or seconds. Much different considerations come up, such as persisting state, and also the impact of model changes to in-flight process instances (the later of which I'm not sure that he's covering). Disclosure: I occasionally do paid webinars for Active Endpoints, but I'm not compensated in any way for telling you about CTO Tuesdays. (tags: bpm) [...]

Comment on CTO Tuesdays #9: BPM as an event source for CEP by BPMS podcast to discuss persistence, transaction for BPM | VOSibilities

BPMS podcast to discuss persistence, transaction for BPM | VOSibilities — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:38:50 +0000

[...] CTO Michael Rowley, delivers a short talk on a broad range of topics spanning the BPMN diamond to complex event processing to an introduction to BPMN [...]

Comment on CTO Tuesdays #1: The BPMN diamond by BPMS podcast to discuss persistence, transaction for BPM | VOSibilities

BPMS podcast to discuss persistence, transaction for BPM | VOSibilities — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:24:56 +0000

[...] GMT, our CTO Michael Rowley, delivers a short talk on a broad range of topics ranging from the BPMN diamond to complex event processing to an introduction to BPMN [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #44: The state of BPMN: an update from the real world by Column 2 : The State of BPMN Implementation: Webinar Replay

Column 2 : The State of BPMN Implementation: Webinar Replay — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:11:04 +0000

[...] State of BPMN Implementation: Webinar Replay Here’s the replay of the webinar that I did yesterday with Active Endpoints – it runs almost 90 minutes, because we just kept the Q&A going at the end with all the [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #33: BPMS, IT, business users and the real state of collaboration by Column 2 : What To Expect From The BPM Market in 2010

Column 2 : What To Expect From The BPM Market in 2010 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:03:27 +0000

[...] I have done a paid webinar for Active Endpoints in the past, although my future in that regard is likely in question after writing this blog post. [...]

Comment on ActiveVOS Experiences Rapid Growth in Q1 2009 by Venture Capital News » Blog Archive » Active Endpoints Receives $5M in Funding

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:06:51 +0000

[...] customer acquisition and revenue since the announcement of ActiveVOS 6.0 in September, 2008 (see ActiveVOS Experiences Rapid Growth in Q1 2009and Active Endpoints Reports Record Growth in [...]

Comment on Will acquiring BPM companies end the feud? by Column 2 : links for 2010-01-12

Column 2 : links for 2010-01-12 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:03:10 +0000

[...] Will acquiring BPM companies end the feud? | VOSibilities Alex Neihaus (of Active Endpoints) on Progress-Savvion acquisition. "[T]hese two acquisitions make an even stronger case for ending the feud and realizing that for BPM to deliver what we all believe it can for business, there will be collaboration…the business end user drives…but the mouse is likely to be in the hands of an IT professional." (tags: bpm) [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #33: BPMS, IT, business users and the real state of collaboration by Will acquiring BPM companies end the feud? | VOSibilities

Will acquiring BPM companies end the feud? | VOSibilities — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:52:30 +0000

[...] that includes both IT and end users. As far back as last summer, we were exploring this topic in a webinar in which Sandy Kemsley articulates succinctly the folly of the arguments for anything other than [...]

Comment on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #47: Pragmatic Enterprise by SOA adoption: The human face of governance

SOA adoption: The human face of governance — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:18:08 +0000

[...] Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. [...]

Comment on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #47: Pragmatic Enterprise by The FASTForward Blog » Measuring the Business Value of Enterprise 2.0, Using Enterprise 2.0: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:40:08 +0000

[...] opportunity to join, that explored return on investment (ROI) aspects of services. (Audio available here, transcript available [...]

Comment on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #47: Pragmatic Enterprise by Applying metrics to enterprise services, or simply getting people to work together | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:44:00 +0000

[...] opportunity to join, that explored return on investment (ROI) aspects of services. (Audio available here, transcript available [...]

Comment on BPMN 2.0 with BPEL — the debate is just starting by BPMN 2.0 with BPEL: searchSOA.com weighs in | VOSibilities

BPMN 2.0 with BPEL: searchSOA.com weighs in | VOSibilities — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:33:05 +0000

[...] our blog (and we hope you become one) will have already that we are in the middle of a fascinating discussion on the question of execution engines. Now, Rob Barry of searchSOA.com has weighed in with this [...]

Comment on BPMN 2.0 with BPEL — the debate is just starting by BPMN vs BPEL: The Debate Goes On (Sigh) « BPMS Watch

BPMN vs BPEL: The Debate Goes On (Sigh) « BPMS Watch — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:35:13 +0000

[...] than a straight BPMN 2.0 solution would invite a further response. Two, actually, one from Michael and another from Frank Leymann. Hmmm. In a room with those two, I’m at best the third [...]

Comment on Which is simpler: BPMN or BPEL? by BPMN vs BPEL: The Debate Goes On (Sigh) « BPMS Watch

BPMN vs BPEL: The Debate Goes On (Sigh) « BPMS Watch — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:30:37 +0000

[...] should have known that disputing Michael Rowley’s contention that mapping BPMN to BPEL was “simpler” than a straight BPMN 2.0 solution would invite a [...]

Comment on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #47: Pragmatic Enterprise by BriefingsDirect analysts unpack the psychology of project management via 'Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0' and SOA | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:31:12 +0000

[...] Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. [...]

Comment on Which is simpler: BPMN or BPEL? by BPMN 2.0 and BPEL: a debate with Bruce Silver that's just getting started | VOSibilities

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:59:27 +0000

[...] Silver saw my previous post on the simplicity of BPMN vs. BPEL for execution and wondered: “Are we still debating [...]

Comment on ActiveVOS government security agency case study by Upside case study report shows connections between BPM and security best practices | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:26:19 +0000

[...] part of a project with Active Endpoints, Upside Research, Inc. recently interviewed a national government security organization that had a critical need to manage the security of files exchanged among users, screening out [...]

Comment on Which is simpler: BPMN or BPEL? by BPMN with BPEL, an ongoing debate | SOA Governance - Service Oriented Architecture - SOA Business - SOA Design - SOA Services - SOA Software - SOA Solutions - SOA Security - SOA Web Service

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:59:16 +0000

[...] does not make modeling with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) simpler. He had seen a recent blog post by Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley claiming that BPMN2.0 with BPEL is simpler than the new BPMN [...]

Comment on ActiveVOS government security agency case study by ActiveVOS BPM case study and customer reference | VOSibilities

ActiveVOS BPM case study and customer reference | VOSibilities — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:48:43 +0000

[...] VOSibilities ActiveVOS: the BPMS that development teams love « ActiveVOS government security agency case study [...]

Comment on Which is simpler: BPMN or BPEL? by BPMN 2.0: modeling process applications | VOSibilities

BPMN 2.0: modeling process applications | VOSibilities — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:22 +0000

[...] VOSibilities ActiveVOS: the BPMS that development teams love « Which is simpler: BPMN or BPEL? [...]

Comment on Which is simpler: BPMN or BPEL? by BPMN vs BPEL: Are We Still Debating This? « BPMS Watch

BPMN vs BPEL: Are We Still Debating This? « BPMS Watch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:37:19 +0000

[...] Endpoints’ Alex Neihaus points me to a post by his CTO Michael Rowley entitled “Which is simpler: BPMN or BPEL?” I’m groaning before I even read it, because I know where Michael is headed. Right [...]

Comment on CTO Tuesdays #4: Message correlation by Engine-managed message correlation in BPEL- and SOA-based engines | VOSibilities

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:02:17 +0000

[...] VOSibilities ActiveVOS: the BPMS that development teams love « CTO Tuesdays #4: Message correlation [...]

Comment on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #46: Business commerce clouds by BriefingsDirect analysts discuss business commerce clouds: Wave of the future or old wine in a new bottle? | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:31:02 +0000

[...] Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript, or download a copy. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint’s ActiveVOS at http://www.activevos.com/insight. [...]

Comment on CTO Tuesdays #3: BPMN and BPEL events by links for 2009-11-10 « steinarcarlsen

links for 2009-11-10 « steinarcarlsen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:06:04 +0000

[...] BPMN 2.0 and BPEL events | VOSibilities (tags: bpmn2.0 bpel cep) [...]

Comment on Liberation from Oracle SOA Suite, Biblical storms and a social media meetup by SOA needs manifestation not manifesto | VOSibilities

SOA needs manifestation not manifesto | VOSibilities — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:39:30 +0000

[...] Imagine the group-think of it all: a bunch of people with widely-varying views came together and produced….yet another statement. I imagine the camaraderie and group hugs that must have accompanied this effort resulted in repeated choruses of Kumbaya…or at least a serious drinking party to celebrate the achievement. (Guess which we like better.) [...]

Comment on Liberation from Oracle SOA Suite, Biblical storms and a social media meetup by I poke Oracle SOA Suite 11g in the eye | Thinking aloud

I poke Oracle SOA Suite 11g in the eye | Thinking aloud — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:41:50 +0000

[...] Update October 21, 2009: It was a massive success. Check out the hi-jinks here [...]

Comment on Liberation from Oracle SOA Suite, Biblical storms and a social media meetup by Oracle SOA Suite 11g is too big, too complex and in too many pieces | BPM blog VOSibilities

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:53:14 +0000

[...] 20, 2009: See what we’ve done to make people aware of the size and bloat of Oracle SOA Suite here, here and [...]

Comment on 11g Prisoners by Oracle SOA Suite 11g is bloatware | BPM blog VOSibilities

Oracle SOA Suite 11g is bloatware | BPM blog VOSibilities — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:32:52 +0000

[...] up actors as prisoners “shackled” to Oracle SOA Suite (Check out the hi-jinks here, here and [...]

Comment on Liberation from Oracle SOA Suite, Biblical storms and a social media meetup by Oracle SOA Suite 11g is bloatware | BPM blog VOSibilities

Oracle SOA Suite 11g is bloatware | BPM blog VOSibilities — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:27:49 +0000

[...] VOSibilities ActiveVOS: the BPMS that development teams love « Liberation from Oracle SOA Suite, Biblical storms and a social media meetup [...]

Comment on 11g Prisoners by ActiveVOS liberates Oracle OpenWorld | BPM blog VOSibilities

ActiveVOS liberates Oracle OpenWorld | BPM blog VOSibilities — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:24:26 +0000

[...] Today, we are Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. We’ve dressed up actors as prisoners of SOA Suite 11g. We’ve handing out cards that contain the 11 things to think about when considering SOA Suite 11g and an invite to our social media meetup Tuesday, October 13. Here are the details. [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #38: ActiveVOS 7.0, part 2 by BPMN, BPEL, AJAX and other new features in ActiveVOS 7.0, part 1 | BPMS and BPM for SOA | VOSibilities

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:28:29 +0000

[...] As promised, we have posted part 2 of this discussion here. VOSibilities podcast #37: ActiveVOS 7.0, part 1 [27:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #37: ActiveVOS 7.0, part 1 by BPMN 2.0 designer in ActiveVOS, support for continuous integration and operational enchancements | BPMS and BPM for SOA | VOSibilities

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:24:09 +0000

[...] we promised in part 1 of of our discussion on the new features in the ActiveVOS 7 BPMS, we are delighted to post part 2 of a conversion among me (Alex Neihaus), Luc Clément and Michael [...]

Comment on BPM and SOA belong together by New white paper discusses BPM and SOA and the alignment between business and IT | VOSibilities ActiveVOS BPMS blog and podcast from Active Endpoints

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:02:58 +0000

[...] VOSibilities ActiveVOS: the BPMS that development teams love « BPM and SOA belong together [...]

Comment on Dispelling a few misconceptions about SCA by SCA is the best way to develop new services for applications | VOSibilities BPMS and BPM blog and podcast from Active Endpoints and ActiveVOS

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:33:13 +0000

[...] pleased that my recent disagreement with JP Morgenthal was noticed by Joe McKendrick, on his Service Oriented blog, and by Loraine [...]

Comment on Dispelling a few misconceptions about SCA by Point-counterpoint: Is SCA the limit? | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:45:41 +0000

[...] interested in these goals takes the time to take a closer look at the technology.” – Michael Crowley, author of Understanding SCA: Revolutionize How You Build BPM [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #34: BPMS, workflow and rich internet applications (RIA) by JBoss BPEL server: back to the past | VOSibilities BPMS and BPM blog and podcast from Active Endpoints and ActiveVOS

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:03:28 +0000

[...] industry whim, because getting a standard specified and approved is an arduous process. (Just ask Michael Rowley, who labors with other vendors to keep the BPEL and BPEL4People standards moving forward.) To [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #34: BPMS, workflow and rich internet applications (RIA) by BPMS | A BPEL4People and WS-Human Task sample for the ActiveVOS BPM system | VOSibilities BPMS and BPM blog and podcast from Active Endpoints and ActiveVOS

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:37:30 +0000

[...] VOSibilities The ActiveVOS blog and podcast for the BPM, BPMS, BPMN and BPEL communities « VOSibilities podcast #34: BPMS, workflow and rich internet applications (RIA) [...]

Comment on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #42: Governance in cloud computing by Analysts define growing requirements for how governance needs to support corporate adoption of cloud computing | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:34:18 +0000

[...] a full transcript of the discussion. Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Charter Sponsor: [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #33: BPMS, IT, business users and the real state of collaboration by BPMS | Better business processes, fewer calories | VOSibilities BPMS and BPM blog and podcast from Active Endpoints and ActiveVOS

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:21:07 +0000

[...] systems. (For a revealing look at the relationship between end-users and development teams, watch a replay of Sandy Kemsley debunking the “four myths” of end user process [...]

Comment on Intalio: the Open Source BPMS Leader? by Intalio -- formerly the "open source BPM" company is now the "enterprise cloud company" | VOSibilities BPMS and BPM blog and podcast from Active Endpoints and ActiveVOS

Fri, 22 May 2009 14:45:20 +0000

[...] about a company by how it communicates. We taken Intalio to task before for claiming leadership in open source. Do you also see the pattern in the [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #28: ActiveVOS 6.1 by BPMS | What's New in ActiveVOS 6.2 | VOSibilities BPMS and BPM blog and podcast from Active Endpoints and ActiveVOS

Tue, 05 May 2009 09:02:38 +0000

[...] Active Endpoints is pleased to ship ActiveVOS 6.2. Coming less than 60 days after the release of ActiveVOS 6.1, our new ActiveVOS 6.2 delivers an industry-first: true multi datacenter fail-over and clustering. [...]

Comment on Active Endpoints Receives $5M in Funding by BPM | Putting ActiveVOS BPMS into focus | VOSibilities

BPM | Putting ActiveVOS BPMS into focus | VOSibilities — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:28:21 +0000

[...] follower and Forrester analyst Stefan Ried has written a post about us on the occasion of our new investment round that gives me a chance to address some points about our company and our product that we [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #28: ActiveVOS 6.1 by BPMS | VOSibilities podcast #30: The ActiveVOS 6.2 BPMS | VOSibilities

BPMS | VOSibilities podcast #30: The ActiveVOS 6.2 BPMS | VOSibilities — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:25:53 +0000

[...] might also be interested in reviewing our podcast from March, 2009 on ActiveVOS 6.1. VOSibilities podcast #30: ActiveVOS 6.2 [21:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | [...]

Comment on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #37: BPEL4People: Human Tasks in Business Process Applications by BPM | What's the future of BPM asks Gartner's Jim Sinur | VOSibilities

BPM | What's the future of BPM asks Gartner's Jim Sinur | VOSibilities — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:18:43 +0000

[...] processes (check out Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight Edition podcast on BPEL4People). ActiveVOS is specifically designed to integrate people flexibly into end-to-end, completely [...]

Comment on Active Endpoints Receives $5M in Funding by Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS has more money to burn | Stefan Ried

Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS has more money to burn | Stefan Ried — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:22:35 +0000

[...] Endpoints announced today that they raised another round of 5 mio [...]

Comment on What’s New in ActiveVOS 6.1 by BPM | Tony Baer writes about departmental BPM using BPEL | VOSibilities

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:40:19 +0000

[...] my colleague Michael Rowley always points out, BPEL is the “native” execution language of SOA, the fuel of a SOA [...]

Comment on As the BPM gear turns: last week’s Gartner BPM Summit by BPM | Active Endpoints CEO Mark Taber on BPMS, the Gartner BPM Summit and ActiveVOS Q1 success | VOSibilities

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:14:20 +0000

[...] VOSibilities The ActiveVOS blog and podcast for the SOA, Java, BPM, BPMN and BPEL community « As the BPM gear turns: last week’s Gartner BPM Summit [...]

Comment on Fastenal Succeeds with ActiveVOS for its SOA applications by SOA success at Fastenal Corp. | VOSibilities

SOA success at Fastenal Corp. | VOSibilities — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:48:00 +0000

[...] in eBizQ’s SOA in Action blog, Joe McKendrick discusses how Fastenal Corp. is using ActiveVOS in production to revamp to its sales order processing [...]

Comment on VOSibilities podcast #28: ActiveVOS 6.1 by Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect mobile edition

Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect mobile edition — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:21:37 +0000

[...] standards. [Disclosure: Active Endpoints is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.] There’s an Active Endpoints podcast on the solution, and a new white paper on SOA implications of the process efficiencies from Dave [...]

Comment on White paper: “Leveraging Process Configuration within the Context of SOA” by SOA white paper by David Linthicum issues call-to-action for BPM development | VOSibilities

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:02:32 +0000

[...] VOSibilities The ActiveVOS blog and podcast for the SOA, Java, BPM, BPMN and BPEL community « White paper: “Leveraging Process Configuration within the Context of SOA” [...]