Liferay, Inc., creators of Liferay Portal, the world’s leading open source portal, and Intalio, Inc., the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions, recently announced a new integration partnership. Together, the products allow employees to have a common interface to manage their daily workload. The portal enables a single integrated view of the user’s calendar, email, task list and whatever other functions the employee or IT department includes.

Why is there resistance to change? Are people just naturally perverse, or are there concerns which if understood and correctly dealt with will create the buy-in required to turn resisters into supporters and generate the momentum needed to overcome the gravitational pull of the status quo?
There are six layers at which resistance can occur.
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The Requirements Document provides a solid foundation for the end product, and provides the first view of what the intended product must do and clear descriptions of how the automated system should perform. The Requirements Document also provides a basis for design, and serves as a foundation for testing […]

Business Process Modeling is exactly that. Its the equivalent of making your fancy workflow diagrams earn their keep by transforming shapes into actual code [thats the goal at least]. My journey has required me to explore this new neck of the woods [for me] by first focusing on what I can get my hands on and try out. As we take the following tools to task I hope to report back our findings.

Promising to do for business process management what the iPhone did for portable devices, Vitria this week announced M30, a BPM suite aimed at blending process management and event processing through a slick, Web 2.0-style interface. The result is described as a unified environment in which untrained business users can intuitively model, manage, monitor and optimize processes without help from IT.

TIBCO iProcess Suite Outperforms BEA Systems, Pegasystems, Axway and W4 Based on ISO 9001:2000-Certified AssessmentLondon, March 31, 2008 – TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that the independent analyst group - Yphise - ranked TIBCO iProcess™ Suite as the industry’s “Best Business Process Management (BPM)” solution. According to the report, TIBCO’s BPM suite […]

New Release Extends Reporting and Analysis, Enhances Interoperability, and Improves Enterprise Scalability BALTIMORE, MD – April 2, 2008 – Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced the release of Version 6.1 of the Metastorm ProVision […]

You just started at company X, besides the nice website and the great interviewing experience what do you know about this new company your about to “work on”? A BA must be prepared to do extreme DNA engineering- The corporate DNA! Your company’s DNA will best […]

Is your organization ready to start reaping the rewards of managing business processes rather than functions? Find out the six critical steps that will get you there.

Fact gathering is an integral part of understanding reality and preparing a good process map. Yet, it is often dismissed or given cursory attention as superficial process maps are created by an individual or group of people some distance away from the work…and thereby some distance away from reality. If you want your process maps to reflect reality, you must go to the work and see it happen.