I had another chance to speak with Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) in a roundtable podcast hosted by Dana Gardner from Interarbor Solutions and a couple other BPM vendors.   Topics in this roundtable discussion included different perspectives on current and future trends in Business Process Management, the evolving role of IT over the next decade, and modern day SOA best practices. 

As usual, ETM does a great job selecting topics that are meaningful to today’s IT professionals and gathering insights from experts across the industry.  You can click on the podcast link and register to download and listen to this informative roundtable discussion.

Malcolm Ross

Director Product Management

Tags: , Agile, Appian, BPM, Business Process Management, Collaboration, ETM, IT, podcast, SOA

At Appian, we’ve seen a growing interest in the market to unite traditional Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Analysis modeling (EA/BPA) with executable BPM diagrams.  Despite consolidation in the market between EA/BPA tools and BPM execution frameworks, the historical results of integration have been poor, with disjointed development, to much “Lost in Translation”, and a lack of true round-trip exchange of models between the platforms.

Bruce Silver has released a new whitepaper that discusses this need to unite the EA/BPA and BPM tools in your enterprise.  It’s a great read if your an enterprise architect looking to understand how to connect your architecture to your BPM initiatives.  And if your a BPM expert, the whitepaper highlights the importance and benefits by uniting your BPM project with the larger view of EA/BPA modeling. 

Appian and Mega have been working hard to provide customers with a seamless integration between these worlds that enhance your enterprise process improvement initiative.  The Appian/Mega integration provides a seamless transition from Mega EA/BPA modeling to the Appian BPM execution engine and allows analytics and process changes implemented captured Appian to be re-imported into the Mega EA/BPA platform, ensuring your enterprise documentation and execution frameworks are always in-line.

Malcolm Ross

Director Product Management

Tags: , BPA, BPM, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, MEGA

I recently had the opportunity to sit down in a podcast with Ali Klaver, Managing Editor of Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) to discuss the growth of BPM inside corporations, common benefits customers are realizing with BPM and how BPM is increasing the collaboration between IT and business. 

We certainly live in exciting times in the BPM industry.  We have seen dramatic consolidation in the industry as well as dramatic growth in adoption of BPM platforms.  If you are an IT professional, and not up-to-speed yet on BPM, I encourage you to listen to the podcast and start your research in how your role will be changing over the next several years.   The future is all about alignment of IT/Business for a common “Shared Purpose”, agile development, SaaS and Cloud offerings, and using a common tool to jointly model and manage your enterprise processes and applications.

To listen to this podcast, follow the link to the ETM website and register.  ETM additionally offers a variety of other great resources to learn about trends in the IT and BPM industry.

Malcolm Ross, Director Product Management, Appian

Tags: , Agile, Appian, BPM, BPM in the Cloud, BPM Methodology, Business Process Management, Collaboration, ETM, IT, podcast, SaaS BPM

The analysts at Forrester are talking about a business technology transformation they are seeing; one that they have defined as a shift from “Information Technology (IT)” to “Business Technology (BT).” On a recent webinar, VP and Research Director Connie Moore cited a move away from the traditional notion of “business & IT alignment” to a more holistic fusion of the two that will better-address 21^st Century business needs. Business process professionals are on the frontline of this BT transformation, supported by a dramatic evolution in business process management software and the strategies and methodologies behind its use. More »

Tags: , BPM, BPM in the Cloud, BPM Methodology, Business Process Management, Forrester, Lean BPM, SaaS BPM

There’s no doubt about the growing interest in consuming Business Process Management software as a service via public or private Cloud models. Yet as leading IT analysis firms have only fairly recently acknowledged on-premise BPM as a truly “mainstream” enterprise technology, organizations can’t be blamed for wondering about the maturity of BPM in the Cloud. Cutting through the noise, what’s the real substance? When will SaaS delivery of BPM reach a critical tipping point in terms of capability and acceptance?

According to research from Datamonitor, that day is fast approaching, More »

Tags: , Appian 6, Appian Cloud, BPM, Business Process Management, SaaS BPM