Tag Archives: XPDL

Human BPM vs. Case Management, Summit Nov 3

Posted on October 14, 2009 by

There might be three distinct kinds of process support necessary: 1) System Centric Processes 2) Human Centric Processes 3) Knowledge Worker Processes

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XPDL Fully Tipped

Posted on July 13, 2009 by

In March 2007 I wrote an entry called “The Tipping Point for XPDL” where I mentioned among other things that 8 of the top 11 BPM vendors support XPDL. Since that time XPDL has moved forward by adding support for … Continue reading →

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Rise of the Process Wiki

Posted on June 30, 2009 by

A few weeks ago I became aware of Process Wiki  (http://wiki.process.io/) when the founder of the wiki left a comment on one of my blog posts.  I was curious.  Without surprise, the wiki site contains a good collection of example … Continue reading →

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Upcoming BPM Events

Posted on May 8, 2009 by

Three upcoming events might be worth looking into: May 19: Industry Briefing: BPMN 2.0 Examined This is a free webinar by Robert Shapiro the brain behind XPDL.  Few have his insight and experience into the process space.  Now a consultant … Continue reading →

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21 Questions to Ask a BPM Vendor

Posted on May 6, 2009 by

With all the work I do in getting BPM system to interoperate with each other, I have come to recognize a set of potential problem areas.  Naturally, vendors are not always forthcoming with these little glitches.  So I have put … Continue reading →

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Searching for BPMN / XPDL Incompatibility

Posted on April 20, 2009 by

For you who read this blog on occasion, please help.  I am looking for any valid BPMN diagrams that can not be represented as standard XPDL.  Many people understand that XPDL is a superset of BPMN, meaning that everything from … Continue reading →

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Model Portability Landmark

Posted on March 31, 2009 by

WfMC announced last week the BPMN Model Portability Validation test. This is a test that certifies that a BPM diagram, of a specified complexity, can be accurately exchanged between tools that have passed the test. The test starts with a … Continue reading →

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Model Portability is No Accident

Posted on March 14, 2009 by

A process design ecosystem demands a reliable way to transfer the process definitions between tools.  Bruce Silver’s post on Model Portability in BPMN 2.0 is very timely indeed. What he demonstrates is four different modeling tools, drawing BPMN diagrams, writing … Continue reading →

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bxModeller Initial Review

Posted on September 20, 2008 by

A few weeks ago I became aware of the bxModeller from Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. and the University of Salento in Italy which is an open source / free tool for BPMN/XPDL modeling. I got access the bxModeller to see … Continue reading →

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bxModeller: Open Source BPMN / XPDL

Posted on September 3, 2008 by

The title pretty much says it all.  This is another BPM process modeler which represents a process in BPMN, and then saves and exchanges those diagrams using XPDL. I have not been able to actually try it out yet, nor … Continue reading →

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