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...

Recently I read a new Gartner Magic Quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is titled: Magic Quadrant for BPM-Platform-Based Case Management Frameworks  (12 March 2015).  It is a new Magic Quadrant relating to a subset of the Case Management market. Case Management frameworks is a growing market, which is important enough for producing a Magic Quadrant. The Magic Quadrant was written by Gartner's analysts Jannet B. Hill, Kenneth Chin and Rob Dunie.   What is a Case Management Framework? It is possible to build a solution based on Model Driven tools or on Coding tools or COTS (Commercial Of The Shelf).  if you need less flexibility COTS are better fit then modeling tool. Case Management Use Case is exactly the opposite of a fixed solution. It is management of complex and less structured Processes performed by Knowledge Workers. A Case Management Process include ad hoc decisions based on Knowledge, Content and interaction with other experts.   The Decision Centere...

In a  previous post I discussed Business Process Management (BPM) evolution as reflected by an Ovum report.  Recently I read new Gartner BPM Magic Quadrant . The Magic Quadrant is titled IBPMS Magic Quadrant. If you compare it to previous Gartner BPMS Magic Quadrants (you should not compare them), you will find a totally different picture.  Only three Leaders in the IBPMS Magic Quadrant, namely: IBM , PegaSystems and Appian . No Challengers and a lot of Visionaries I know ( Oracle , Software AG , Tibco , Vitria ) and two Visionaries I never heard of ( Bosch Software Innovations , Whitestein ).  Previous BPMS Magic Quadrant includes many Leaders, many Challengers as well as many Visionaries. The pattern of few Leaders, No Challengers and many Visionaries is typical to immature markets. Gartner explains it as a new generation of BPMS tools. What differentiate IBPMS from BPMS? IBPMS tools try to address a new Use Case : Intelligent  Business Operati...