Tomorrow (November 21st) I'll present two contributions to the 3rd international BPMN workshop in Luzern, Switzerland.My first speech will present our proposed notation for representing Social Business Processes within Social BPM scenarios. Social networking is more and more considered as crucial for helping organizations harness the value of informal relationships and weak ties, without compromising … Continue reading Representing Social BPM and WebML at the BPMN workshop 2011
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Seminar on Social BPM at SMAU 2011 Milano
Just to keep track of the events I've been involved recently, here is a quick summary of the seminar I gave together with Stefano Butti at SMAU Milano 2011. The topic was Social BPM. You can find here some picture, an interview (in Italian) and the slides I used (in English).Other pictures of the event … Continue reading Seminar on Social BPM at SMAU 2011 Milano
10 years of WebRatio (and 15 of WebML)
This is a quick visual summary of the event held at Villa Grumello, Como, Italy, on October 14th, 2011 for the celebration of the 10 years of WebRatio:Further pictures of the event are available on the WebRatio blog. Some of the ideas I presented there are described in my previous post.The presentation I gave at … Continue reading 10 years of WebRatio (and 15 of WebML)
The WebML Innovation Cycle: presentation
This is the presentatio I gave at the 10 Years celebration of WebRatio:The WebML innovation cyclehttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=10yearsofwebratio-innovationcycle-111014054243-phpapp01&stripped_title=the-webml-innovation-cycle&userName=mbrambilView more presentations from Marco Brambilla.To keep updated on my activities you can subscribe to the RSS feed of my blog or follow my twitter account (@MarcoBrambi).
10 years of WebRatio: thinking about our path to industrialization
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
BPMN and Design Patterns for Engineering Social BPM Solutions
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
WebML going mainstream? The path to standardization
As you may know, I’m involved as WebML scientific advisor with Web Models, the company that produces the WebRatio toolsuite. Among the various activities pursued by the company, with the support of Politecnico di Milano, we can count the evolution and promotion of the WebML language. Within this stream of work, the company recently decided … Continue reading WebML going mainstream? The path to standardization
Multi-faceted BPM: Turning a business process model into software automation
Turning a business process model into the specification, design and implementation of a software solution for process enactment is a non trivial task. It might be considered as not so relevant by business analysts (that typically focus more on BPR and BP optimization), but I think it's a crucial issue anyway.Indeed, the specified processes can … Continue reading Multi-faceted BPM: Turning a business process model into software automation
Video: Introduction to WebRatio
In case you didn't see it, here is the short introductory video about WebRatio, in which a speaker highlights the main features of the MDD tool based on WebML:[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDrWaKSlSvY]You can also find some audio lessons on WebML on my official web site.
User gateways in BPMN?
I've come across the concerns of Keith Swenson and Anatoly Belychook on the missing expressive power of BPMN with respect to the description of human decisions in business processes. Bruce Silver has tackled the problem too.I (together with my research group and the WebRatio team) definitely share their concern. After some discussions, experiments, and on-the-field … Continue reading User gateways in BPMN?