SOA filling the Gaps

Ford assembly line, 1913 Source: Wikipedia Are traditional BPM solutions still relevant or new approach is a must? I am not the only one who asks the question above. According to Gartner's analyst, Janet Hill, Traditional BPM is the past and "Improvisational Process" is the future.  "Improvisational Process" is less structured and more Agile than  Traditional BPM. Traditional BPM aims at more Automation and Process improvement and kills Innovation.    Let us try to answer the question above. In order to understand the issue I will use an analogy between Software Development and BPM Software Development. First stage: Automation The Typical Software developed in the 1950s automated simple organizational tasks. For example, instead of calculating profits by adding data manually, the data was entered into the computer and a programed calculation routine was executed.  Another simple example is a report. Instead of writing it manually, including data an...

More than six years ago I wrote a post titled: Vendors Survival: Will EMC Survive until 2018?   The trigger for writing that post was an article by Jason Hiner, the Editor in Chief of Zdnet . According to Hiner " E MC, the world’s leading storage vendor, is flush with cash and has the opportunity to make a big move ". Hiner thought of two possible big moves: 1. Dell and EMC merge i.e EMC would buy Dell 2. Cisco buys VMware I thought that the two moves suggested by Hiner will not be realized in 2009.  AS far as EMC Survival was concerned, I thought that the keys for the company's survival until 2018 are keeping its leadership in the Storage market and adapting to Cloud Computing.  I do not know if Cisco will acquire VMware, but on October, 12, 2015, Dell announced a deal  with MSD and Silver Lake to buy EMC for  67 billion USD in Cash and stock .   VMware owned partially (80%) by EMC is excluded from the deal. The deal is the largest ...