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

One problem with “hot” technology markets like BPM is that while industry hype raises awareness of the need, it also breeds lots of confusion for end user organizations. Industry pundits are ratcheting up the urgency meter, exclaiming that “BPM is mainstream” and if you’re not in the game, you’re falling behind. At the same time, the related flood of theories and jargon about strategies, technologies, and methodologies coming from these same pundits (and vendors, too, of course) tend to cloud the waters rather than clear them. More »

Tags: , Appian 6, BPM, Business Process Management, Gartner

Today, Appian announced the impending availability of Appian 6.  Appian 6 raises the bar in the BPM market by making the discovery, construction, and deployment of enterprise BPM application easier than ever.  Our main theme around Appian 6 is Process Acceleration.  Accelerated results and faster deployments represents the value customers will experience with the Appian 6 platform given the new ability to rapidly deploy and realize ROI faster than any other BPM product on the market.  More »

Tags: , Appian 6, BPM

Tags: , BPM, Integration, SharePoint

Here’s a great collection of cartoons that hammer home the value proposition of Business Process Management.    My apologies in advance if I’ve violated some kind of copyright, but this is good stuff for presentations on BPM..  More »

Tags: , BPM, Humor

We’ve all seen the recent changes in the market and the mad rush by many companies to increase cash levels to prepare to weather the impending financial storm. At the helm of many companies as they enter this storm is the CFO. Often having the keenest eye for managing cash, the CFO is being relied upon to make important strategic business decisions and prove financial viability to shareholders.  The clearest place to start though for CFO’s is their own backyard, improving financial operations around invoicing, cash collections, dispute management, and financial exceptions.  More »

Tags: , ebizQ, financial, podcast

First.. pardon my absence from the blogging scene for the past month.  I’ve had my hands full with my new daughter, Maddie..

Maddie

Not to bring up “Joe the Plumber” again, one month after the election, but I’d like to take a minute to highlight how “Sharing the Wealth” among Appian users has benefitted our Appian customers.  More »

Tags: , Center of Excellence, ShareBase, SOA

A big thank you needs to go out to all those who attended the Appian Forum.  This was certainly a milestone event in the history of Appian and a fantastic education and networking event in building your BPM practice.  More »

Tags: , Appian Forum, Forrester, MEGA

I’ve been waiting to blog about our partnership with Mega for a few weeks now.  We at Appian have been very busy with our recent Appian Forum event and Gartner BPM Show, and with those events behind us, there are many topics to catch up on.

The Appian / Mega partnership is an exciting relationship that provides an unmatched value proposition to the BPM market.  Mega has lead the way in Business Process Analysis and Enterprise Architecture tools while Appian is the innovation leader in Business Process Management in the execution and management of enterprise processes.  Binding these products together will provide unmatched capability in modeling, analysis, simulation, execution, and management of processes.

We’ll disclose more details as the integration evolves, but suffice to say, it goes far beyond what has ever been attempted before in integrating a BPA and BPM tool together.   The partnership will close the gap on round-trip modeling, execution and analysis.  Furthmore, it will raise the bar in change management and architecture for all application platforms.

Look for an upcoming webinar in Q4/2008 that will highlight the partnership and integration between the two products.

Malcolm Ross

Tags: , BPA, EA, MEGA

Another member of Appian’s professional services organization, Medhat Galal, was chosen to provide insight for DM Review on an article entitled Centers of Excellence: The Path to Process Innovation Success.  In this article Medhat provides great insight in why organizations need a CoE to compliment any BPM initiative.  He also covers defining a CoE and setting up it’s basic framework.

If you are pursuing your first project, I highly recommend this quick read on BPM Centers of Excellence.

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