About Enterprise Architecture (AboutEA.com) - An Information Technology Weblog http://AboutEA.com/ en-us 2007-02-16T13:59:23-08:00 AIM Pro Outlook Integration - 3:00 PM Record Time http://AboutEA.com/archives/001828.html AIM Pro Outlook Integration - 3:00 PM Record Time Originally uploaded by Vince Outlaw. Immediately after installing AIM Pro and launching it, with nothing else open (important geek fact), I was reminded that at 3 pm, I should Record... voflickr 2007-02-16T13:59:23-08:00 Effective Business and IT Collaboration - Key to BPM and SOA Success - Devesh Sharma, Oracle http://AboutEA.com/archives/001805.html I've seen and written about the Oracle approach to BPM, including their Business Process Analysis (BPA) Suite which is essentially a branded version of ARIS with extensions to more closely integrate with their BP Execution platform. This presentation went into... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-09T10:27:47-08:00 Enterprise Architecture and Business Rules - Marshall Edgison, ELM http://AboutEA.com/archives/001804.html Introduced last year, IDS' partnership with Corticon to embed Business Rules Management directly into ARIS was in full view in this session. This will be an area that will only get bigger as the Business Rules Management domain becomes more... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-09T05:12:08-08:00 Business Processes: The Basis for Linking BPM and SOA – Dr. Wolfram Jost, IDS-Scheer VP http://AboutEA.com/archives/001803.html ARIS ProcessWorld 2007 Day 2 opened with, so far, the best presentation of the conference, something that would resonate with both Business and IT leaders wanting to understand where BPM fits in the enterprise and also the roadmap for ARIS... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T09:22:41-08:00 Havana Nights - ARIS ProcessWorld 2007 Event http://AboutEA.com/archives/001802.html The main evening event of the conference was a dinner, music, casino night party hosted by IDS-Scheer in the Grand Pavillion at the Amelia Island Plantation and it was called Havana Nights. Cuban food was server, with whole Red Snapper... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T08:25:57-08:00 Innovation Through Open BPM with SOA - Dr. Mathias Kirchmer http://AboutEA.com/archives/001801.html The leader of IDS-Scheer Americas gave a keynote on aspects of Innovation and how BPM can be an enabler. Types of Innovation: Business Model and Technology. Open BPM addresses both of these. Open BPM places for Innovation: EA, SOA, Change... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T08:21:19-08:00 BPX (Business Process eXpert) Community http://AboutEA.com/archives/001800.html Personnally, the BPX (Business Process eXpert) Community, hosted as a part of the SAP Developers Network, has some exciting potential as a hub for ARIS practitioners to gather and share information about the platform. Community Evangelist Marilyn Pratt did a... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T08:14:15-08:00 A Holistic Approach to the Service-Oriented Architecture - HP's Giovanni Del-Grosso http://AboutEA.com/archives/001799.html While making sure we knew that HP could help us all get there, Giovanni offered up some verify good information that could be used for a Maturity Model for SOA, describing some of the different aspects and facets that an... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T08:05:51-08:00 SAIC's Change Management and System Engineering Approach to a Financial Systems Renewal Project - Marc Kase, SAIC - Hoo Ray!! http://AboutEA.com/archives/001798.html Marc did a great job and we received lots of questions during and after the session. Lots of people anxious to get working on ARIS.... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T07:58:28-08:00 Engineering The Process-Centric Enterprise - Molson-Coors http://AboutEA.com/archives/001797.html It's hard to resist a session that combines a couple of my passions, Business Process Management and Beer, especially when I know that the folks at Molson-Coors know what they are doing (they won one of the 2007 BPE Verve... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T07:56:41-08:00 What Really New With BPM? Gartner's Jim Sinur and Michael Blechar http://AboutEA.com/archives/001796.html Tag-team keynote from Gartner's best in the BPM, SOA, and other domain's. Jim has been the vanguard, but is turning at least some of the reigns over to Michael. Users are looking to compose new services (processes) on the fly.... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T07:47:03-08:00 Achieving Open BPM with SOA http://AboutEA.com/archives/001795.html As he did last year, IDS-Scheer Founder and CEO August Wilhelm Scheer used his own Jazz combo to illustrate the agility and collaboration that BPM promises. He opened with Cedar Walton's "Bolivia" and concluded with Miles' "Milestones" Re-emphasis on ARIS's... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T06:27:25-08:00 ProcessWorld 2007 - The Flickr Photo Set http://AboutEA.com/archives/001794.html I've started the ARIS ProcessWorld 2007 Photo Set on Flickr to capture the sights of the February 7 - 9, 2007 conference on the Amelia Island Plantation near Jacksonville, Florida. Here's one of the great slides I captured from a... ProcessWorld2007 outlawv 2007-02-08T04:58:41-08:00 ProcessWorld 2007 Opens With Jazz http://AboutEA.com/archives/001793.html The 2007 version of IDS-Scheer's ProcessWorld opened this morning with a keynote by CEO and founder August Wilhelm Scheer focusing on Open BPM, emphasizing the ARIS product being open to all business models, business process standards, and vendor BPM implementation... outlawv 2007-02-07T07:51:31-08:00 IDS Scheer Partners with Systar to Launch New Process Event Monitoring Solution http://AboutEA.com/archives/001750.html 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... Business Layer outlawv 2007-01-10T09:00:05-08:00