Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) adopted as a standard by OMG

It's with great pleasure and also some pride that I'm announcing that the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) has been adopted as a standard by OMG during the technical meeting held in Reston, VA this week.This is an important result we have been pursuing for more than two years now (and ultimately have its roots … Continue reading Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) adopted as a standard by OMG

Daniel Moody on "Designing diagramming notations that work": the physics of notations

Daniel L. Moody from University of Twente gave a talk (and a full fledged tutorial) at OMG technical meeting in Reston, VA, on the principles for designing effective diagramming notations. His talk had this overall design:(click to enlarge)Daniel Moody wrote a famous paper on IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering titled:The “Physics” of Notations: Toward a … Continue reading Daniel Moody on "Designing diagramming notations that work": the physics of notations

A standard API for Knowledge Bases (API4KB)

API4KB is an initiative within OMG that aims at defining a standard programming interface for knowledge bases. API4KB has been presented at OMG ADTF and the activities on this are starting now. There is a API4KB RFP currently open and some resources are available on the API4KB wiki. LOI and voting list are open until … Continue reading A standard API for Knowledge Bases (API4KB)

IFML on its way towards OMG standardization

The Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) is now one step closer to standardization by Object Management Group (OMG). On February 18 the revised version of the IFML specification has been submitted to OMG by a consortium lead by WebRatio and comprising also Fujitsu, Model Driven Solutions, Softeam, and Thales.The new submission has improved a lot … Continue reading IFML on its way towards OMG standardization

Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow – by Keith Swenson and Nathaniel Palmer

It's with great pleasure that I can announce that the model-driven approach proposed by WebRatio has won the Special Mention Award within the Global Awards for Excellence in BPM and Workflow, promoted by WfMC, bpm.com, and Future Strategies.You can read the full announcement here and you can follow the webinar of the award ceremony on SlideShare … Continue reading Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow – by Keith Swenson and Nathaniel Palmer

BPM and Cloud, the ideal partners. SMAU 2012 presentation

Questo workshop si occupa di presentare le tecniche moderne di progettazione e deployment di processi di business a livello enterprise, sfruttando le potenzialità degli approcci model-driven (MDE - Model Driven Engineering) e le piattaforme basate su cloud.Il workshop mostra come sia possibile affrontare con tecniche agili le problematiche di definizione e ristrutturazione di processi aziendali, … Continue reading BPM and Cloud, the ideal partners. SMAU 2012 presentation

Personal process management: the overlooked side of BPM

Being quite involved both in the BPM field and in social networking, personal productivity tools, and Web application design, I'm always appalled when I think about how many findings and practices designed for businesses could benefit our everyday life too.One specific example of this is about the BPM practices and their potential added value for … Continue reading Personal process management: the overlooked side of BPM

BPM and EA Europe Conference 2012 – the full Twitter story from all of us

The BPM and EA Conference 2012 is simply too big to follow in person in all its sessions and details. I'm trying here to summarize all the stories that are going on. Feel free to add your comments and experiences! (For sake of readability, the story will be visible once you open this post separately).http://storify.com/marcobrambi/bpm-europe-and-eac-conference-2012.js[<a … Continue reading BPM and EA Europe Conference 2012 – the full Twitter story from all of us

Making Social BPM mean Business – Sandy Kemsley’s seminar at BPM Europe 2012 by IRM-UK

While attending the BPM Europe Conference 2012, I started by following the seminar by Sandy Kemsley on Social Business Process Management.She brought up a large set of interesting issues related to Social BPM: Social BPM dimensionsDimensions of complexity can be orthogonalized and well managed:Structure: how much structured is the processInternal Collaboration: how much internal collaboration … Continue reading Making Social BPM mean Business – Sandy Kemsley’s seminar at BPM Europe 2012 by IRM-UK

6th MDA and BPM forum 2012, Milan, Italy

Today I attended the MDA forum 2012, organized by Soluta.net and held in Milan, Italy. The topic of this year has been: "BPM and MDA". WebRatio was sponsoring the event and also had a presentation during the day, given by Stefano Butti. Here is a short summary of the day, which has been extremely interesting … Continue reading 6th MDA and BPM forum 2012, Milan, Italy