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Intelligent Enterprise Expert Partner: Bruce Silver

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, which offers reports and white papers. He's a contributor to IntelligentEnterprise.com, writes the BPMS Watch column on BPMInstitute.org and also serves as BPMS Track chair at the Brainstorm BPM Conferences.

Recent Articles By Bruce Silver
BPMS Watch Rates 11 Business Process Management Suites
The BPMS Watch Ratings Report for the Second-Quarter 2008 takes a close look at the integration, human workflow, production workflow and case management capabilities of industry-leading BPM suites. All-around standouts include BEA and Lombardi, Oracle, Software AG, EMC and Global 360.

Put to the Test: Savvion BPM
Once business users master Savvion's modeling tool, it's easy for IT to turn the designs into executable processes.

Change Agent: Getting Started in BPM
Most people curious about BPM don't think of it as a software technology or an "implementation" at all. They see it more as a new way to understand and measure their business.

Change Agent: BPM With or Without SOA
Both BPM and SOA talk about agility, reuse, business-IT alignment, service-level agreements and BAM. But in reality, they're quite different. BPM works today, but broad use begs for better ties to SOA.

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Blog: BPMS Watch
by Bruce Silver

Oracle Unveils Plans for BEA
Oracle has sorted the BEA catalog into one of three buckets: 1) strategic, where BEA was superior to existing Fusion components or offered a new capability; 2) continue and converge, where BEA component would be maintained but eventually merged into Fusion; and 3) maintenance, mostly OEM offerings, which it seems Oracle wants to walk away from as soon as they can. The BEA installed base was reassured that...
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07. 2.2008

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... 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...
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06.25.2008

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WHITE PAPERS

•Nexaweb Advance: End-to-End Application Modernization

•DHL Switzerland Improves the Flow of Information and Goods with Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite

•Aflac Japan Trims IT Management Costs, Slashes Development Cycle, and Boosts Application Performance with Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Solution

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