Iceberg (www.geticeberg.com) announced today the release of their version 2. The Iceberg platform is designed for building high-quality, dynamic business software. The company now offers its industry changing technology via a free download from Iceberg 2. The Web platform essentially allows anyone to create business class applications in minutes rather than days - without the need for code of any kind. This latest release is significant because, apart from the additional features of version 2... Read Full Story

If I was your BA… I’d talk with the end users and capture some pain points off the record in an informal setting. Next schedule a formal interview with the prospective manager and ask them to map out their primary process’s at a high level. Your questions from your prior informal discussion will help you ask relevant questions. Match the pain points to identified process activities. In a one page process improvement proposal the goal is the high level process ID with the man... Read Full Story

Spiceworks is in my opinion a long overdue solution. For those who don’t follow network administration Spiceworks is an Network discovery, Helpdesk, Asset Inventory, Knowledgebase built into a web enabled (RUBY) application. Did I mention its free! Well it shows banner ads (adware). Your going to get those anyway if your looking for helpful info to resolve an server issue on the web so who cares? I say give me all the ads in one area of the web page all day as long as you keep sprucing ... Read Full Story

Leading Open Source Vendors Integrate to OfferBusiness Friendly Process Management from the Web LOS ANGELES and PALO ALTO, Calif. — April [23], 2008 — Liferay, Inc., creators of Liferay Portal, the world’s leading open source portal, and Intalio, Inc., the leading vendor of open source business process management solutions, recently announced a new integration partnership. Together, the products allow employees to have a common interface to manage their daily workload. The portal enables a si... Read Full Story

Why is there resistance to change? Are people just naturally perverse, or are there concerns which if understood and correctly dealt with will create the buy-in required to turn resisters into supporters and generate the momentum needed to overcome the gravitational pull of the status quo? There are six layers at which resistance can occur. We Do Not Agree on the Problem Go into any poorly performing organisation and ask people from various functions what the issues are. In all likelihood, wi... Read Full Story

The Requirements Document provides a solid foundation for the end product, and provides the first view of what the intended product must do and clear descriptions of how the automated system should perform. The Requirements Document also provides a basis for design, and serves as a foundation for testing and user acceptance of the end product. Included in the Requirements Document are business requirements, which are statements of the functions or program needs that must be met ... Read Full Story

Business Process Modeling is exactly that. Its the equivalent of making your fancy workflow diagrams earn their keep by transforming shapes into actual code [thats the goal at least]. My journey has required me to explore this new neck of the woods [for me] by first focusing on what I can get my hands on and try out. As we take the following tools to task I hope to report back our findings. Business Process Modeler Tools TIBCO Savvion* WorkPoint Bizagi * Embarcadero Open Source Modelers E... Read Full Story

BPM suite combines modeling, management, monitoring and optimization presented in a single, highly visual interface. by Doug Henschen Promising to do for business process management what the iPhone did for portable devices, Vitria this week announced M30, a BPM suite aimed at blending process management and event processing through a slick, Web 2.0-style interface. The result is described as a unified environment in which untrained business users can intuitively model, manage, monitor and o... Read Full Story

TIBCO iProcess Suite Outperforms BEA Systems, Pegasystems, Axway and W4 Based on ISO 9001:2000-Certified AssessmentLondon, March 31, 2008 – TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that the independent analyst group - Yphise - ranked TIBCO iProcess™ Suite as the industry’s “Best Business Process Management (BPM)” solution. According to the report, TIBCO’s BPM suite demonstrates that it has the maturity and agility required by large companies and represents a... Read Full Story

New Release Extends Reporting and Analysis, Enhances Interoperability, and Improves Enterprise Scalability BALTIMORE, MD – April 2, 2008 – Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced the release of Version 6.1 of the Metastorm ProVision enterprise modeling software suite – including an update to its collaborative Knowledge Exchange web-base... Read Full Story