The intersection between process design and process automation is the place where accidents happen. And it’s not a pretty sight. IT professionals and line of business (LOB) professionals often crash into each other as they try to design and automate processes. I think that most – if not all – of these accidents could be easily prevented if process automators [...]

I am writing this post live from ARIS User Day 2013. The German-speaking ARIS community is getting together in Darmstadt/Germany to discuss new Business Process Analysis, Enterprise Architecture and Governance, Risk & Compliance trends. Obviously, the new ARIS 9 release is also a major topic. Software AG’s CTO Dr. Wolfram Jost opened the day with an overview of 20 years [...]

This week Software AG announced its cloud-based platform-as-a-service suite Software AG Live. The suite consists of AgileApps Live, Process Live and Integration Live. Stefan Ried, Principal Analyst at Forrester wrote a great summary about Software AG Live in his blog. I am especially excited about Process Live because as some of you might already know, I have been around in [...]

  Today at Gartner’s AADI conference in London, Software AG articulates its long awaited approach to the cloud paradigm. Under the wrapper Software AG Live, we will mix up the PaaS space with an array of services launched throughout 2013. Here are the key aspects of the announcement and factors of differentiation in the market place. Industry Context CIOs of [...]

Many of you have been waiting for this: ARIS 9 is available as of today. The newest ARIS release combines 20 years of process improvement experience with the latest technology trends of cloud, mobile, social collaboration and big data/information. ARIS 9 takes a quantum leap forward in process design, publishing, analysis and collaborative improvement. Here’s a summary of the highlights: [...]

As I mentioned in my post last week, I was inspired to write about the Electrolux presentation given by Jean Lastowka at the recent Gartner BPM Summit. The presentation was about how process improvement and real-time supply chain visibility are game changers for Electrolux. But what makes this story unique is Jean attended the BPM summit last year where she [...]

This week I attended the Gartner BPM Summit in Washington DC and by no surprise  the four forces (cloud, mobile, social, information) and their impact on process improvement continue to be a hot topic of discussion.  Though I found the attendance to be a bit lower than normal, I still found the tracks filled with interesting topics and content I [...]

I see this a lot, organizations invest tons of time in analysing and modeling business processes. And they end up with a collection of process models but still don’t know which processes should be automated with BPMS technology. And I think this is because many organizations struggle with how to get started with process automation. For example, should they tackle simple [...]