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			<title><![CDATA[New Bruce Silver Report Out on Appian Enterprise]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1205</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BPM expert (and BPMEnterprise.com blogger) Bruce Silver has just laid his analytical gaze upon the Appian enterprise suite of business process management software in a new report you can freely read (but not download) here:http://www.appian.com/downloads/papers_reports.jspThe 30-page report explains what each component within Appian Enterprise does;  but along the way ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Dian Schaffhauser]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Vendors]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:51:06 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Thankless Job of the Change Agent]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1183</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Rusty Weston, contributor and former editor of Global Media Services, has a new blog. And his posting today touches on the topic of change agents. According to Weston, "It’s a risky career move." Apparently, in a Friday article by The Wall Street Journal, Shai Agassi, former SAP AG executive, "was ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 13:28:23 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Case Studies for Forecasting and Delivery Services]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1172</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I was just pointed to a two-page profile by AMR Research analyst Bill Swanton of two projects in which webMethods is involved.The first project is a brief case study of Ahold, which has 720 stores. webMethods is used to manage 5 million messages a day generated by the company’s point ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 01:00:27 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bruce Silver on BPMN as a Language]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1177</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BPMer Bruce Silver has posted his latest column for BPMInstitute.org onto his blog here. In it, he poses the question: What if BPMN were transformed into a language from its current modest role as a modeling notation tool? Worth a read, as are the comments that follow the post.]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;People]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 14:05:28 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Communication Enabled Processes]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1171</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of examples of processes that involve human interaction, automation, application integration and document flow. But the list doesn’t end there. Communication processes are those activities where "the word needs to get out."I recently did an interview with Avaya’s Vice President of Emerging Technologies, Gwynne Wade, as well ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Vendors]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:45:13 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Optimization Techniques Gartner-style]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1168</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm attending Gartner's Symposium ITxpo this week in San Francisco, which does an excellent job of showing the landscape of IT currently and providing insight into trends. Four major themes dominate: the consumerization of IT, alternative delivery models of IT, green IT and the changing shape of IT. Of course, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:33:33 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[OMG Meeting Pushes End-user BPM Standards]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1162</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm going to quote from the press release regarding progress on various standards efforts at the recent OMG technical meeting that took place in San Diego:During the meeting week, BPM standards for business-based process technology were adopted or advanced by the members. The standards will be of special importance to ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:49:34 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Never Put a Tomato in a Fruit Salad]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1160</link>
			<description><![CDATA[To be honest, I can't tell if this article is legitimate or not, but why would somebody interview the head of Pegasystems as part of a joke? "The Inquirer" runs an interview with Alan Trefler, whom it calls the "inventor of business process management," and whose name it misspells (along ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:32:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gartner: SOA is Driving BPM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1146</link>
			<description><![CDATA[destinationCRM.com ran a brief piece on the expected dramatic growth of business process management (BPM). "BPM's Evolution" Gartner predicts that it will reach $2.6 billion in software revenues by 2011.A couple of points brought up in the article:A large number (45%) of business executive respondents to a Gartner survey believe ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:43:13 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Software AG to Buy webMethods]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1145</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I have an interview with new webMethods hire Bruce Williams to finish up and publish on BPMEnterprise.com; but I didn’t want to delay my coverage of the acquisition of webMethods by Software AG.Whenever a business deal of this scale ($546 million) takes place, we have to ask, does this make ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:26:19 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's BPM Vision]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1144</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm working on some content about the webMethods acquisition by Software AG, but that will have to wait until I have a chance to listen in on the archived Webcast the two companies held this morning. In the meantime, I wanted to direct readers to an eWeek interview here, in ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:07:32 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BPEL 2.0 at the Edge of the Cliff]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1141</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I used to think, oh, companies should never let their techno-wizards out in the public eye. Now I have come to appreciate their entertainment factors. You never know what an IT person will say. Whatever it is, it'll be honest.That's probably why I so enjoyed listening into Danny van der ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:33:08 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Contact Center Solutions]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1134</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If all good process management initiatives begin by looking from the customer's perspective, then you might be interested to read Gartner's latest report (available free from Oracle) on customer contact centers, here.The way that Gartner lays out its evaluation of potential vendors in the space provides lessons in how we ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:45:05 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Innovation Inherent in Process]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1121</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Shamus McGillicuddy, news writer for SearchCIO.com, offers this brief take on how BPM can be used to drive innovation, based on a session he attended during Gartner's business process management conference this week.Yet, the case study shared by speaker Bruce Williams, CEO of Savvi International Corp. about a Maine-based bank ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:51:53 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's BPM Ambitions Gain Steam with New Business Process Alliance]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1113</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Today, at the Gartner Business Process Management Forum, Microsoft and 10 of its partners announced the Microsoft Business Process Alliance, a program that mixes joint ventures with technology and marketing aspects."Customers should be weary of any company selling them all of their BPM needs," said Steven Martin, director of product ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM&nbsp;,&nbsp;Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:18:07 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lombardi Blueprint -- BPM as a Service]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1111</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Amazing. On the same day, both Lombardi Software and Appian announced Web-based BPM services.First, Lombardi.I sat through a mostly interesting Webinar hosted by Sandy Kemsley (soon to do some blogging from Gartner's BPM event for us here) that included Forrester Research analyst Colin Teubner and Lombardi director of product marketing ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:39:03 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Risks of Reuse]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1110</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I frequently read about how software reuse is the miracle cure for a lot of ailments in corporate software development. That's why I was struck by this article by Marcia Kaufman, a partner with Hurwitz &amp; Associates, titled, "The Risks and Rewards of Reuse." Yes, there are problems associated with ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:04:46 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Making the Music Happen]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1105</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It was the darndest thing. The founder of IDS Scheer was about to give his keynote. But the next thing I knew, a quartet was up on stage playing jazz. The guy with the blazing eyes and wild shock of gray hair blowing the sax was Mr. ARIS himself, August-Wilhelm ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:09 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Will You Be My Process Valentine?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1107</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Process-schmossess. Take a break! Tibco has a pretty sweet flash valentine here:http://nsdownload.tibco.com/vd/valentine.html]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:51:35 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Product Roadmap for IDS Scheer and ARIS]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1104</link>
			<description><![CDATA[IDS Scheer CTO Wolfram Jost laid out a roadmap of product releases for his company in a keynote at ProcessWorld last week. Since it flashed by so quickly on the screen, I had to track down the slides to make it available here, which is why it’s a few days ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:23:47 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Activity Based Cost Analysis by PDA]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1103</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Heard a fascinating user case, supplied by Todd Lohr with insurance biggie Zurich North America, last week at the IDS Scheer conference, ProcessWorld.Lohr has a Six Sigma background, so he was a natural when his organization decided to look into using ARIS for process analysis.His take on the job is ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:20:33 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Blogging real-time]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1100</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm here at IDS Scheer ARIS ProcessWorld, and I've just met Sandy Kemsley, who's blogging from the conference real-time. You can read her thoughts about the show -- which she calls "stream-of-consciousness blogging" -- here.]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;People]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:07:28 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Innovation Process]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1099</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One would think a company that makes its living through process -- process tools, process knowledge -- would apply process to innovation as well, particularly in the area of product development. But it sounds as if that's a new concept around IDS Scheer (as it is with many companies, as ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:48:41 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BPM: The Crowded Field]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1098</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Jim Sinur, BPM distinguished analyst with Gartner, said there are 180 BPM vendors currently that are "thriving." Some, he said, are seeing triple digit growth, others a more modest double digit growth. In this kind of crowded field, you have to ask, how does a company compete?According to CEO Thomas ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:44:16 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ARIS ProcessWorld: Reporting from Amelia Island, Florida!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1097</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This week I'm attending IDS Scheer's ARIS ProcessWorld. I've just sat through a media panel with the top executives of the company. Thomas Volk, CEO and president, gave a glimpse into the history of the company. It was founded in 1984 by Dr. August-Wilhelm Scheer, who early recognized that investing ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:32:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Call Center BPM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1096</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The more I learn about business process management, the more I realize that BPM is a green field -- just sitting there awaiting the plow, especially in specific verticals. That point was brought home to me last week during an interview with Robb Duke, senior marketing director for InteractiveSoftworks.His company ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:04:40 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Four Microsoft-friendly BPM Suites]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1090</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I find webinars to be a great, fast way to get a quick introduction to a product. (Sure beats driving to an airport, getting on a plane and flying to a conference to get demos while standing in an exhibit hall, balancing a glass of wine and plate of cheese...)That’s ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:19:44 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Metastorm's Focus for 2007]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1087</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I love roadmaps of all kind -- the ones from AAA, the ones I put together for my personal life every New Year’s, and the ones put out by companies about their future development plans (especially, when they’re written in a way that the mere mortal can actually understand what ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:26:13 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Elite Company BPM Payoff]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1071</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hackett Group has concluded what you probably already know: Financial benefits accrue from adopting BPM best practices. That's what this article on Treasury&amp;Risk states. Author John Labate summarizes it thus:In a study of 200 large companies, the "elite" group -- those that had the best efficiency and effetiveness measures ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:39:50 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BPM as a Driver for SOA]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1070</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Rich Seeley, reporter for SearchWebServices.com offers an interesting rundown on a new report from Gartner, titled, "Gartner’s Top Predictions for IT Leaders, 2007 and Beyond."In the report, writes Seeley, Gartner predicts that "business process management (BPM) will become the driver for SOA implementations... The technology for the convergence of BPM ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:51:59 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oracle Formally Enters the BPM Arena]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1066</link>
			<description><![CDATA[With its announcement yesterday that it was releasing a business process analysis suite, Oracle joins IBM and Microsoft in offering a BPM strategy.According to the press release, the suite consists of four components:Business Process Architect. A standards-based tool for process modeling that supports standards-based notations and templates including Business Process ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Vendors]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:24:25 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who Owns Business Process -- IT or Business?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1059</link>
			<description><![CDATA[CIO writer Meredith Levinson profiles three business transformation efforts in her article, "Whose Business Is Process Improvement Anyway," and in the course examines the problem of power struggles between IT and business people. Since this comes from an IT leader magazine, the perspective reflects that -- how CIOs can lead ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:12:16 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The TRIZ Journal Joins CTQ Media!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1050</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The TRIZ Journal (www.triz-journal.com) is now a division of CTQ Media LLC (www.ctqmedia.com) and a channel under www.realinnovation.com (which will launch November 15th). TRIZ - a Russian acronym meaning the theory of inventive problem solving - is, as the full name suggests, a systematic methodology for solving problems that call ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:58:57 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[webMethods Fabric 7.0 Screenshots]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1051</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I just received a presentation from webMethods, which shows its new release, Fabric 7.0, in action. Here are some screenshots I plucked out of the slides... You can read my write-up about the new version of the BPM product suite here:http://www.bpmenterprise.com/tyLHere’s an image displaying business visualization -- how the process ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:37:27 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New webMethods Release Draws Business and IT Closer in BPM Work]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1049</link>
			<description><![CDATA[webMethods unveiled details of its upcoming BPM product suite, webMethods Fabric 7.0, during its customer conference in Washington, D.C. today.Describing the new set of releases as a "giant leap forward for webMethods in the BPM space," Marc Breissinger, CTO, said the release offers a number of new features, including guided ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:44:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lab Work at Business Objects]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1048</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Business Objects has announced the formation of a lab to stimulate and try out new ideas involving business intelligence.Among the areas being worked on:Graphics mashups and mashboards, to extend the ways BI can be applied. In fact, it announced an extension to its product line to that effect here. The ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:15:43 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Next Stage for BI]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1044</link>
			<description><![CDATA[eWeek's Editorial Director Eric Lundquist captures the essence of what business intelligence could become if vendors and clients put some brainpower into it in his latest column. (It's not online yet, but you'll be able to access it here at some point in the near future.)He states that BI is ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:55:54 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Power of Process]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1042</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Just picked up a new book to review: The Power of Process by Kiran K. Garimella.This one sounds interesting. First, it's written in the form of a novel. Second, it provides the principles of process management. Third, it's relatively brief -- fewer than 200 pages. When I get through it, ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:06:23 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Well Do You Know BPMN? The Answers!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1040</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I shared a pop quiz given by IBM's Stephen White during an Object Management Group conference session on business process modeling notation (BPMN). It sure proved to those of us in attendance how well we were truly paying attention (or not -- my score was below ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:01:08 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Well Do You Know BPMN? A Test!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1038</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Monday I had the chance to listen to IBM’s Steven White, BPM architect, explain the basics of business process modeling notation (BPMN). (I suspect this is akin to hearing a Nobel-winning economist explain microeconomics.) You can read his white paper on the topic here.After a couple of hours of ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:12:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What IT Thinks about Business Process]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1035</link>
			<description><![CDATA[CIO Insight shares interesting findings regarding how IT managers feel about their organizations' business process efforts.You'll find the survey results here.Although "improving business processes" is the top priority for IT executives -- particularly at small and midsized companies -- the dedicated tools for doing that (BPM software) is in use ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:02:54 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[We Resist Change Because We're Hardwired To Do So]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1034</link>
			<description><![CDATA[CIO’s September 15, 2006 issue has a couple of articles worth blogging about.First up, "The New Science of Change," by Christopher Koch. As the abstract for the article states, ""Nothing is more frustrating than trying to get people to alter the way they do things. New research reveals why it’s ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:29:02 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Business Rules and Business Process Work Together]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1031</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At the same time I noticed a question about this topic in the forum, I also came across an article from Dr. Dobbs on how business process management software and business rules management software work together and separately.As author Bruce Silver writes, "Which rules are the domain of the BPMS ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:50:42 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business Process Monitoring Drives BPM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1021</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Aberdeen Group's survey analysis, "The Business Process Management Benchmark Report," includes some eye-opening information about BPM.For example, the survey found business process monitoring is "wagging the BPM suite's tail in that the monitoring component is sufficient to pull through a sale of an entire BPM suite due to the focus ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:30:25 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The InfoWorld Review of Appian Enterprise 5.1]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1020</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Appian, InfoWorld reviewer James Borck evaluates version 5.1 of Appian Enterprise here. His conclusion: "Appian provides a comprehensive solution for managing human-centric processes..."]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:42:50 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How the IBM Buyout of FileNet Is Structured]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1017</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Orange County Business Journal lays out the details beyind IBM's acquisition of FileNet here, based on an interpretation of documents filed with the SEC. As the article, by Brian Womack, points out, CEO "Lee Roberts, who started seeking buyers for FileNet...more than a year ago, will see his patience rewarded ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:10:27 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fusion and Oracle's Designs on BPM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1015</link>
			<description><![CDATA[AMR Research analyst Bruce Richardson, who painted the ERP doomsday scenario I blogged about yesterday, posted excerpts from an online interview he had with John Wookey, head of Oracle’s application development efforts.In it Wookey alludes to BPM projects that are underway based on Fusion middleware, which currently doesn’t feature business ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Companies&nbsp;,&nbsp;Research&nbsp;,&nbsp;Vendors]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:34:51 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How the Auto Club Tracks Its Insurance Rules]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1014</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Even though the title, "Auto Club Group Blazes New Trails," is a bit overkill for the actual subject of the article, this story on Insurance Networking News provides some useful details about AAA of Michigan’s implementation of business rule technology in its insurance business. The organization, which operates in nine ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:49:59 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[SOA Killing Off ERP?!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1013</link>
			<description><![CDATA[According to this posting on cmc, research firm AMR analyst Bruce Richardson is mapping out a "doomsday scenario, circa 2010," in which SAP and Oracle customers start moving to low-cost India- or Eastern Europe-based integrators to replace their ERP behemoths with business process services.My question is this: Why will it ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:17:41 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gathering User Requirements as a Process]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1004</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Baseline publishes a fascinating account of how HMO Kaiser Permanente is using a new requirements management system to tighten up how software developers gather requirements for new development projects. The article says that 700 of the healthcare provider’s 2,000 developers will be using the new system, which is based on ...]]></description>
			
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			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:24:53 -0500</pubDate>
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