The Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), a group recently formed to define a standard way to model business processes, is prepared to release the first draft of specs for BPML (Business ...

I gave a workshop at the Enterprise Architect Summit Monday entitled IT Drivers for Business Process Modeling. When it came time for me to explain the plethora of language stacks and standards that ...

*Just how good IS "business process modelling notation?" Could you write some "stage business" with BPMN? Like, say, a simple Marx Brothers comedy routine where Harpo sets fire to somebody's hat? The ...

Looking to separate business processes from the applications in which they’re imbedded, a technology industry consortium yesterday released the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) specification.

Whether you’ve planned for it or not, your business is heading for digital transformation. As a way to remain competitive and respond to changes in consumer demand, companies need to explore how their ...

In our previous blog we posed a broad question, where do operators fit with current manufacturing technology trends? More specifically, we asked: What if we could map out each manufacturing process, ...

Last week, I discussed my view that business service management and service-level management are really variations on a theme, and that the natural evolution and acceptance of SLM concepts resulted in ...

Popkin Software on Monday added new visualization and Web publishing features to its System Architect enterprise architecture and modeling tool suite. The suite enables users to capture, analyze, and ...

The convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) with Business Process Management (BPM) is redefining how organisations operate by integrating real-time data from myriad connected devices into ...

Signavio, a Berlin- and New York-based provider of business transformation solutions, today revealed that it closed (pending regulatory approvals) a $177 million growth equity round led by Apax ...

A new report suggests that an emerging Web services market focused on new business-process technologies could make the current market for application-integration software obsolete. The report, ...