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Bruce Silver's BPMS Watch
Dr. Bruce Silver is an independent industry analyst and consultant focused on business process management and content management technologies. He is the author of the BPMS Watch blog, writes the BPMS Watch column on BPMInstitute.org and also serves as BPMS Track chair at the Brainstorm BPM Conferences. See More by Bruce Silver Intalio Powers BPM in the Cloud
The most interesting keynote at last week's Intalio User Conference was by Greg Olson, founder of Coghead, a BPM-in-the-cloud service that uses Intalio as the process engine under the covers. Coghead bills itself as a next-generation platform for situational apps, such as built today on Excel, Access, or FileMaker. Instead of professional developers, Coghead targets independent Web developers and power users. The platform is 100 percent Web based, a multi-tenant service hosted on the Amazon cloud infrastructure, with simple subscription-based pricing (free for single user). You can define data, forms, and perform the usual set of database operations, so it's really easy to build a database app in the cloud. So where is the BPM part? You can customize an insert, update, or delete by defining it as a process flow, as shown below.  A process flow diagram in Coghead The diagram isn't full BPMN, but you can have conditional branches, loops, do lookups, set values, send email alerts, or perform custom actions. The flow becomes BPEL under the covers, executed on Coghead's Intalio engine. Instead of process being the centerpiece, mini-processes are used to replace simple database operations. The entire app is Web 2.0, accessible through Google Gadgets or iframe. It's pretty cool. All of the data lives in Coghead, so you probably are asking how to integrate this with your real data sources behind the firewall. Coghead provides a "linked application" feature in which a facade on Coghead communicates with a RESTful API on your app behind the firewall, which I believe is based on the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP). Much as we have WSDL-based adapters to business systems today, it is expected that application systems will increasingly offer APP "adapters" for this type of integration, either from the app vendors themselves, middleware providers, or built by individual developers.  E-MAIL | SLASHDOT | DIGG This is a public forum. CMP Technology and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. CMP Technology makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of CMP Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in CMP Technology's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business.
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