ARIS BPM Blog

Since the middle of last year the SOA hype seems to be gone. Many analysts and opinion leaders have changed their own messages now focusing on broken SOA initiatives or slow adoption rates. So far, I refused to join this SOA bashing, because it is too easy to criticise something.

Christmas and the new year is approaching quickly. It is time to take a look back and to say "Thank You!" . It is time to take a look back... We started with our ARIS BPM Blog in April 2008 and have since then posted 89 posts. We published also 9 ARIS TV episodes on the ARIS Youtube channel. However, the most important thing is the interaction with you – our dearest readers and our audience.

Would you like to know how Infineon Technologies AG managed to make their compliance management more efficient with ARIS? Watch ARIS TV Episode 9, the interview with Markus Dobmeyer from Infineon, who gave some helpful tips and lessons learned from their Sarbanes-Oxley project...

Ever since it was developed as a universal language for enterprise architecture, ArchiMate has had a small but growing fan group in the architecture community, mostly in the Netherlands. That, however, is changing fast. ArchiMate has been accepted as a standard by The Open Group (of the TOGAF framework), which established the ArchiMate Forum to lead its further development.

At this year's German IT Summit in Darmstadt, I attended a forum that focused on how ICT research can be leveraged to achieve leadership in major growth industries. The aim of the forum was to highlight the future prospects for Germany as an ICT location.

I recently attended the customer presentation of publisher Springer Science+Business Media at the Process Intelligence Roadshow in Frankfurt. It’s amazing! The company needs to ship over 3 million scientific and technical books and almost 5 million journals every year in Germany alone. So how do they measure those logistics?

Last week, there was an ARIS ProcessDay (November 3rd in ArenA stadium in Amsterdam) conducted in the Netherlands. The event again underlined the importance of having the right change processes for surviving in a highly competitive market.

The Process Intelligence Roadshow is coming to Asian and Australia and I guess it’s time to highlight my favorite presentations so far.

I have just come back from a short trip to the IT conference "OMG Information Days 2008" in Munich, where I lectured on some SOA best-practices. The one-day conference was not really crowded, just roughly 50-60 people. So I wonder if this reflects a declining interest in SOA or has the world-wide recession already started to pulverise travel and training budgets? Anyway, what to take home from my stay in Munich...

Last week I received an email from a student asking how service-oriented architecture (SOA) is covered in ARIS and what literature I can provide. I thought the answer might be also interesting for other people, so I also share it here.

I just read the interesting article of my colleague Sebastian about the OMG and their BPM certification program. I know of another not so "official" way to become a BPM Expert. Do you know how, too?

Our readers know that "We Love BPM". Therefore, we are always happy to see new initiatives trying to spread the word about BPM. One recent initiative is the OMG certification program for BPM experts. This official certification program consists of several levels and registration for the fundamental level will be available soon. As a contributor to the certification program I am not allowed to release any of the questions (sorry guys!), but I can give you some hints what you can expect from the program.

I work for a very musical company! This is largely due to the influence of Professor Scheer, a real jazz addict. Anyone who has attended ARIS ProcessWorld has probably seen him play live. Jazz is often a part of his keynote address. He even has dedicated lectures focusing on the relationship between Jazz improvisation and management. If you are interested you can gain an inside view in an article by Prof. Scheer (3,8 MB pdf).

I am reporting from the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit in London themed "Emergent Architecture - New Game, New Rules". This Enterprise Architecture (EA) Summit does not only give an update on the latest trends in EA, but it is supposed to challenge the participants to change some of their most basic premises and operating models.

The first two stops of the Process Intelligence Roadshow were held in Chicago and New York. I saw some very interesting presentations and had some intense discussions about the combination of BPM and BI. Click on read more if you are interested in my personal highlights: