IDS Scheer Partners with Systar to Launch New Process Event Monitoring Solution
IDS Scheer, the leading provider of solutions for business process excellence, today announced a partnership agreement with Systar (Euronext Paris: SAR) (ISIN: FR0000052854), the leading provider of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solutions. Under the agreement, IDS Scheer will embed Systar’s core technology to provide customers with real-time business event monitoring. The new offering, ARIS Process Event Monitor, will provide companies with real-time monitoring to manage exceptions and risks within business processes.ARIS Process Event Monitor will provide current process-relevant information and enable companies to react immediately to critical events. Rule-based alerts, notifications and actions intelligently identify critical situations based on automated tracking of on-going processes fed by sophisticated adapters that capture, filter and aggregate events.
This won't be 'unveiled' until March 2007 at the CeBIT conference...maybe we'll get a sneak-peak at ProcessWorld in February.
A quick review of ways that Business Intelligence and Business Process Management can integrate from The Intelligent Enterprise Blog | Three Ways BI and BPM Will Work Together
“The first and easiest is to have a plug-in for the BI system whereby you’re using it to analyze and report on process data,” says Frenkel, strategic business development manager at Pega. “Next, the BI system could not only report on process data but also tigger alerts and kick off exception-handling queues and subprocesses. Finally, BI could be used for decision support within a business process.”
followed by some words of wisdom,
"let BI be a utility that you apply wherever it’s needed. And don’t force process owners to become pseudo BI gurus with their own little data silos. We all need each other, so let’s integrate and align the technology and let the people get down to what they do best."
The growth of the business analyst (my current focus) is just one of 7 Channelweb Business and Tech Trends for 2007. Other interesting trends include the need to capture retiring knowledge (and how blog and wikis can..and NOT.. be deployed to help) and BI real-time help with performance management.
BEA integrates several of their collaboration-oriented tools around their BEA Aqualogic BPM suite (aka Fuego). Something I've been thinking about is using weblogs with their categorization and tagging functionality to link to business processes and process activities in a dynamic, process-oriented knowledge store. One part of the BEA announcement that seems to tie to that in particular says:
Process-enabled, enterprise knowledge. AquaLogic Interaction's Knowledge Directory is designed to provide seamless, structured access to information across unstructured and structured enterprise source systems, including Documentum, Microsoft SharePoint, FileNet, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, Windows and Novell File Systems and more. Links to items from these systems can be attached to business processes in support of the individual activities within the process.
I've been trying to find the right way to rebuild this blogs categories to match the APQC PCF process categories that the information pertains to. The idea would be to be able to have a dynamic link or search built from a process category, process, or activity in our business architecture in order to find the up-to-the-minute blog postings and knowledge that pertain to that process category. This looks like BEA is headed in that direction also.
I'm experimenting with Personal Podcasting, setting up a podcast stream especially for communication between two people, like a time-shifted message service. Really, I'm trying to find multple ways to climb into my kids new iPods as they move into the ear-bud, bluetooth-borg phase of growing up. I've set up RSS Podcast streams that I can post to on-line or via phone and they can subscribe to in iTunes. I'll post something, they'll sync, and then have the next set of directions. Maybe I'll find some cool jokes to post to their feeds.
I'm using http://Hipcast.com to host the podcasts (they allow on-line recording, uploading, and post by phone) and http://Feedburner.com to host the RSS feeds (to track usage at some point maybe, dunno).
And again, the current problem with syncing iPod 2GB Nanos with iTunes running in Win XP is driving me crazy!!
NOTICE: As of 1/1/2007, I can't get either of the kids iPods to save a configuration change to the iPod Photo 'Sync to' to point it to a folder, instead of the default which is an Adobe Photoshop Album Starter, which I don't want to have to add to the mix. I don't know what the problem with the sync is, but I will have to dog deeper before the following will work on my Win XP laptop...VO
As a pop with two new iPods in the house, I would like to at least have some say on what goes in them...and podcasting and photo sync is how I'm going to do it. Podcasting makes it easy to get original audio content on the iPod and I'll have some more to say about that another post. What follow's is a very drafty procedure for putting photos from Flickr onto the iPod.
Pre-requisites and other things you need before you start.
1. Select a, iPod Photo Directory where photos and folders you want sync'd will go. Something in My Pictures will suffice.
2. FlickrDown: This is the key piece that will download photos and photo sets to the directory above.
3. iTunes and iPod. The first time, you will need to configure iPod preferences to get Photos from your iPod Photo Directory.
Procedure:
1. Put photos in the iPod Photo Directory. Use FlickrDown to do this when your pictures are shared via Flickr. Or directly download pictures to the iPod Photos Directory (right-click Save Image As...). To come: how to automate launch and download via FlickrDown. Let FlickrDown complete.
2. Launch iTunes.
3. Plug in iPod. Let it sync.
4. Select the iPod in iTunes Devices category and then the Photos tab above the iPod image and (iPod) Name and other ID info.
5. Sync Photos From Choose Folder.
(Run into problems with changed iPod Photo config. Off to the Genius Bar.)