Tomorrow we will celebrate 10 years of WebRatio: this is a good occasion for thinking about the path that led from a university research project to a recognized modeling language (WebML) and a solid, industrialized version of a toolsuite (WebRatio).The main ingredient of our history are basically: - a substrate for cross-fertilization coming from European … Continue reading 10 years of WebRatio: thinking about our path to industrialization
A huge discussion is ongoing on how to implement the social enterprise paradigm and on why it doesn't seem to deliver as expected.Obviously, social enterprise is a broad term that comprises a large number of very diverse problems addressed and solutions that can be adopted, within a variety of business scenarios (including social CRM, social … Continue reading The social enterprise options
This post is about the insights I got from the interesting keynote speech by David Campbell (Microsoft) on Big Data Challenges that was given on August 31st 2011 at VLDB 2011, Seattle.The challenge of big data is not interesting just because of the "big" per sè. It's a multi-faceted concept and all the perspectives need … Continue reading Keynote by David Campbell (Microsoft) on Big Data Challenges at VLDB 2011, Seattle
Our paper "BPMN and Design Patterns for Engineering Social BPM Solutions" (authored by Marco Brambilla, Piero Fraternali, and Carmen Vaca) has been presented today, August 29th, 2011, at the 4th Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2’11), co-located with BPM 2011, in Clermont-Ferrand, France.This paper presents a process design methodology, supported by the … Continue reading BPMN and Design Patterns for Engineering Social BPM Solutions
I think it's time for Model Driven Software Engineering practitioners (and lurkers) to touch base, see where we are and where we are heading to, and finally spread the world.That's why I felt the need of a comprehensive and agile reference on the topic, and having not found one that fits the needs of both … Continue reading Touch base on Model Driven Software Engineering: MDE, MDD, MDA and (other) stuff. What about a new book?
Today I participated, together with an impressive number of world-renowned experts in BPM, to a hectic tweet jam on Social BPM.I curated a (slightly remixed) recording of the session, which is available here (http://storify.com/marcobrambi/socialbpm) and embedded below.The participation was so intense that it was really hard to keep the pace of the discussion (especially because … Continue reading My take on today’s Social BPM tweet jam
A lot of discussions are ongoing on the motivations and role of social BPM, in particular on how and when it should impact on the classical BPM lifecycle.In terms of motivations, I think the social extension of a business process can be regarded as a specific optimization phase, where the organization seeks efficiency by extending … Continue reading Social BPM: motivation and impact on the BPM lifecycle
Despite (or maybe because of) the vast discussion on whether this is just a buzzword, a lipstick on a pig, or even a bad practice for BPM, I have to say that I see a continuously rising attention on Social BPM.This is demonstrated by a huge amount of posts by prominent BPM practitioners (see also … Continue reading The rising sun of Social BPM – upcoming TweetJam
I attended the OMG meeting in Salt Lake City from June 22 to June 24. Here are a few highlights from the Analysis and Design Task Force (ADTF) meeting I attended on Wednesday 22.An RFC for a canonical XMI formatPete Rivett is issuing today a RFC for a canonical XMI format at OMG.I think this … Continue reading Canonical XMI, MEF, IMM, SIMF, FACESEM. Highlights from the Salt Lake City OMG ADTF meeting, June 2011
Together with Piero Fraternali and Daniel Schwabe I organized a workshop at ICWE 2011 on on Search, Exploration and Navigation of Web Data Sources, named ExploreWeb 2011.It was a new challenge for us, because it was at its first edition, but I can say it has been a quite successful event.We got 12 submissions and … Continue reading ExploreWeb workshop on exploration of (Semantic) Web data at ICWE 2011
