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			<title><![CDATA[The Myth of &quot;Plug &amp; Play&quot; Point Solutions]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1247</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BPMS vendors often compete head-to-head when the customer knows they are looking for a BPMS technology. Most of the time, however, the primary competition of a BPMS technology is custom-coded solution or a point solution (Six Sigma tools, SOX tools, CRM, order management systems, etc). Too often, configured BPMS technologies ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jeffrey Mills]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:49:18 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New IDC Market Report]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1224</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Maureen Fleming of IDC put out a BPMS market report last week that told of a market that continues to experience rapid growth that hasn’t even begun to hit its stride yet. IDC reported 2006 BPMS revenue to be $890 million and they see the market growing to $5.5 billion ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jeffrey Mills]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Research]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:18:29 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Office Business Applications]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1217</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced a new intitiative entitled Office Business Applications. In short, OBAs (as they're called) are custom-configured line of business applications based on the 2007 Office Business Platform. While few would endorse replacing "mission critical" systems with this approach, it is unquestionably ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jeffrey Mills]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:41:55 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Looking at life through a process-focused lens]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1215</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When you live and breathe process, you start to look at daily interactions as a step in a process.I was at Newark airport on Friday (that was my first mistake) and my interactions with the airline seem to be a disguised as a scream for process help.There’s no need to ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jeffrey Mills]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:39:50 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[June 20th Webinar on Process Agility]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1207</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Colin Teubner from Forrester Research is joining my CTO, Karl Treier, on a Webinar on Wednesday on Process Agility....what it means and how to look for it in a BPMS technology.It is a vendor-sponsored Webcast, but obviously the Forrester content is vendor neutral and highly relevant.June 20th @ 12PM EDTRegistration ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jeffrey Mills]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:19:38 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Notes from the Microsoft Channel Partner Summit....Where They're Taking BPM]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1186</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is taking BPMS in a direction that is a) meaningful to the customer and b) leverages their strengths. In terms of being meaningful to the customer, they have chosen to market solutions that have a BPM component rather than marketing BPMS. In terms of their strengths, they have the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[The Buzz]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 16:59:46 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Calendar Says Free But Are You Available?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1149</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Assigning manual tasks to people based on their availability is not a new concept for a modern business process management suite (BPMS), but basing a worker’s availability solely on their calendar sounds better on paper than it works in real world. The reality is that most people do not use ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[BPM]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:13:33 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Office, SharePoint &amp; WWF Oh My!]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1101</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Having attended a number of Microsoft Office 2007 Launch events so far, I have noticed how prolific discussions about "business process" have been; no doubt in response to converging hype surrounding people-centric BPM software and the potential value of Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) as it relates to the new Microsoft ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:56:42 -0500</pubDate>
			<guid>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1101</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[BPM 101: Tiring to Some....Still Relevant to Most]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1086</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a BPM vendor, we run up against the competition from time-to-time. To this day, however, January 19th, 2007, we primarily do not run into competition from other BPM vendors. The sales challenges continue to primarily be educating the customer prospect about BPM technology and dispelling claims that systems that ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jeffrey Mills]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[Blogger Bios]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:15:49 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A BPM Vendor Selection Criteria You're Probably Overlooking]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1079</link>
			<description><![CDATA[While platform (.NET vs. J2EE) and architecture (SOA or not) steal headlines as the primary way analysts break out the BPM software market, there is a 3rd equally important way that separates vendors from the standpoint of how they approach process execution at runtime.Does the vendor take an interpretive XML ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BPM as a Development Platform]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1072</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I am beginning to see an upswell in companies looking to BPM software as a development platform and it makes a lot of sense. At the end of the day, many emerging technology companies have 3rd party dependencies. Building on top of BPM technology can help small businesses get to ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:16:29 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BPM Software and Business Rules Engines]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1068</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Much like the confusion that exists in the marketplace around the types of business process management software (BPMS) that exist, there is confusion surrounding business rules engines (BREs) as they relate to BPM. Most BPMS applications do come with an inherent rules capability that is suffice for most business environments. ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:57:58 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A tough hire.....the BPM analyst]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1063</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BPM analysts, or process owners are difficult people to find. BPM vendors need them as consultants to help customers and partners effectively use the technology. Companies need them to be "point" on BPM software related projects &amp; implementations. For all of the debate about whether or not business or IT ...]]></description>
			
			<author><![CDATA[Jeffrey Mills]]></author>
			
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			<![CDATA[People]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:34:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microsoft &amp; Forrester Road Show on BPM Software]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1061</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Just what is business process management (BPM) software? How have companies used BPM software to improve their businesses? Why is it important that BPM software be fully integrated with Microsoft Office? Can you show me what BPM software looks like (demonstration)? If your schedule and locale make it possible, I ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:45:04 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[As 2007 Approaches, The BPM Market is &quot;Approaching the Chasm&quot;]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1054</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In the book "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore, the author talks about how technology evolves through 5 stages throughout its lifecycle (seen below). It is currently late 2006 and the BPM market is becoming more mainstream. I believe that 2007 will be the year that BPM software "crosses the ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:38:07 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dispelling the &quot;Fully Automated&quot; Myth]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1046</link>
			<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard companies describe their operations as fully automated? The reality is that the statement is a myth. Companies can be largely automated, but we live in a world where exceptions are the norm and human judgment will always need to be applied. Most businesses by ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:44:16 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is Windows Workflow Foundation a BPM product? No.]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1037</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Working for a BPM software company that has a product built on .NET, I get this question a lot. So, in an effort to bring clarity to an unclear topic, here goes. Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) is not BPM software. It's not even an application. It's a development framework with ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:02:13 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Where's your PIG?]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1033</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Process improvement groups, or PIGs, are being put into place at many Fortune 5,000 businesses. Western Southern Life has one. Hewlett Packard has many. They are typically comprised of cross-functional teams and I’ve seen them deployed at the corporate level or at the division/business unit level. The significance of this ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:05:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Office is going to play an increasing role in people-centric bpm]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1029</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Core to the success of any software application is user adoption and that starts with simplifying the learning curve. People-centric BPM technologies that facilitate desktop interoperability through Microsoft Office take that concept to the next level.......from simplification of the learning curve to essentially wiping out the learning curve. Let's face ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:55:40 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[About Blogger: Jeffrey Mills]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1027</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey D. Mills is Vice President of Channel Development &amp; Marketing for Bluespring Software, a people-centric BPM software company. Jeff’s 12-year career encompasses product development and management, channel and business development and all facets of tactical marketing &amp; strategic brand development. He has held numerous leadership positions at 3M Corp. ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[Blogger Bios]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:50:23 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Separating BPM into helpful buckets]]></title>
			<link>http://www.bpmenterprise.com/blog/blog.asp?bi=1025</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Seems every software company on the planet these days either calls their technology BPM or calls out a BPM capability in their messaging. If I were just being introduced to the space (which most people still are) and tasked with looking for a process technology to help my company, I ...]]></description>
			
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			<![CDATA[General]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:28:43 -0500</pubDate>
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