Archive for October, 2007

BPM Yields Steady Returns in Good Times and Bad

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

When you look at the proof points for the economics of BPM, it is amazing that the BPM market isn’t making headlines in the Wall Street Journal. When you look at the average returns of BPM projects, they consistently eclipse 15% ROI according to early Gartner studies. So why are the results lost in the […]

What do you think is the way ahead for pure play BPMS vendors?

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

What do you think is the way ahead for pure play BPMS vendors? Like Gartner predicts, how many pure play vendors would survive in their current form and where do you see role of Global System Integrators in this space?
- Sourav
Sourav,
At one point in time, Gartner acknowledged 181+ BPM vendors. Of course, not all will […]

It’s Time to Consider Green BPM

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

While many of us are very familiar with the productivity benefits of BPM and the visibility that process intelligence can provide to optimize resources from a cost and time perspective, what we have not asked BPM to do yet is to optimize the use of scarce resources. We have not tasked BPM to help regions, […]

Will BPM and BI Converge?

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Just to get the discussion going, I would like to put forth an assumption for discussion around the growing importance of Business Intelligence (BI) to Business Process Management (BPM).
Recently there has been visible acquisition activity by power vendors acquiring major BI vendors (e.g.: Oracle acquiring Hyperion and SAP announcing its intentions to buy Business Objects). […]

Welcome to Jim Sinur’s BPM Blog

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

It is my pleasure to welcome you to my blog.  As the BPM and Process Optimization disciplines continue to demonstrate their business value and reach mainstream status, it is my hope that this blog will act as an active, collaborative resource for us to collectively discuss and promote these technologies as more organizations begin to reap […]

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Monday, October 15th, 2007

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Sunday, October 14th, 2007

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