VOSibilities

In this fascinating podcast, Luc Clément, senior director of products, and Michael Rowley, director of technology and strategy, discuss two very important topics in business process management systems (BPMS): workflow and rich internet applications (RIA). First, Michael overviews the progress that’s been made in the BPEL4People technical committee towards finalizing both the BPEL4People and WS-Human Task standards, hopefully by the end of this year. Then, he elaborates on how these standards change workflow forever and offer BPM development teams apabilities that make it easy to integrate human tasks into automated processes.

Then, Luc describes a a new SDK for ActiveVOS that permits Java developers to take advantage of the WS-Human Task worklist management capabilities. Luc and Michael point out that this Java SDK is just the beginning of what they are planning in ActiveVOS 7.0.

In a more detailed preview of ActiveVOS 7.0 than they have provided in previously, Michael and Luc discuss the architectural value of “eliminating” the presentation tier while coupling an AJAX-based, drag-and-drop UI generation capability directly to the ActiveVOS BPMS.

If you are interested in BPM, workflow, integrating human task and delivery of advanced processes to end users via portals and/or Web 2.0 and RIA technologies, you will find this podcast very informative.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #34: BPMS, workflow and rich internet applications (RIA) [20:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (73)

Active Endpoints has been named to the SD Times 100 list for 2009. Our press release announcing this honor is attached to this post.

This award validates the both the market acceptance of our ActiveVOS business process management system (BPMS) and the thought-leadership that Active Endpoints has achieved with its vision of a BPMS that development teams will love.

Instead of me going on and on about why we cherish this recognition, I’ll just quote Alan Zeichick’s take on what the award is and what it signals to development teams that are considering a BPMS:

Unlike other awards programs, we don’t benchmark application servers, or count defects in operating systems, or consider annual sales values, or ask companies to submit flattering essays about themselves and their customers. The SD Times 100, in fact, isn’t a product award or a marketing award.

Instead, we work hard to identify—and highlight—where the “buzz” is. What are development managers thinking about? What are the talking heads talking about? What are competitors sweating about? What is the industry focused on? That’s the SD Times 100.

Thank you, SD Times and also a big thank you to our customers, who have made our BPM system such a success.

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We are pleased to post this episode of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight Edition episode 42. This time, Dana and his industry analyst panel discuss the impact of cloud computing and the need for governance in the cloud. It’s a very interesting topic and one you will want to hear these experts’ perspectives on.

In addition to the audio file, we have also posted a PDF transcript of the podcast, for your convenience.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #42: Governance in cloud computing [44:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (259)
 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #42: Governance in cloud computing - transcript: Download (46)

I am very excited to post a replay of an exceptionally well-received webinar we first presented on June 3, 2009. In this webinar, noted analyst, blogger and consultant Sandy Kemsley joins us to present IT-Business Collaboration on BPM.

Sandy’s riveting presentation gets to the very core of a heated, on-going debate about business process management (BPM): Can business end users actually develop and deploy complex, integrated business processes using today’s business process management systems (BPMSs)? Will they? Even, should they?

You will hear Sandy discuss the “four myths of BPM,” namely:

• Myth #1: Users will use a BPMS to create executable process models
• Myth #2: Business users and analysts can create executable process models
• Myth #3 (My favorite!): Business users want to create executable business process models
• Myth #4: IT wants business end users to use a BPMS to create executable process models

I think you will find Sandy’s detailed discussion of these issues fascinating. And, after Sandy’s talk you can see how the ActiveVOS BPMS fits how things should be: a world in which development teams composed of IT and business analysts collaborate to create integrated, end-to-end, deployable process models.

Because of the very positive feedback we received from the attendees who attended the live webinar, I am posting multiple versions of the recording to ensure that you have the opportunity to watch it. In addition to the usual iPod-formatted .m4v file (140MB), this post also contains a 437MB DivX-encoded .avi file and a 94MB Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv file. Finally, for our bandwidth-challenged readers, I have also posted a PDF of Sandy’s PowerPoint slides. I strongly recommend that you download one of the recordings so you can fully appreciate the wisdom of Sandy’s presentation.

We welcome your feedback. If you’d like to discuss this topic on Twitter, please use the “#activevos” search term…we’ll join you in the discussion there. You can also follow us on Twitter here.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #33: BPMS, IT, business users and the real state of collaboration [77:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (286)
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In a wide-ranging discussion, Dana Gardner and panelists Jim Kobielus, Brad Shimmin, Joe McKendrick, Ron Schmelzer and Tony Baer ponder a cosmic issue: is IT entering a new world by virtual of cloud computing or on its deathbed? With references to smartphones at the opera and to German existential philosphers, this is a discussion of IT you’re not likely to hear anywhere else.

Seriously, this podcast is not one to miss. When we at Active Endpoints decided to become a charter sponsor of this podcast series, the kind of discussion you will hear in this podcast is exactly what we had in mind.

We hope you enjoy it.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #41: IT Renaissance? [57:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (329)
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We are pleased to post a recording of a webinar originally presented on May 7, 2009 entitled “BPMS for Java Developers.” This webinar, jointly presented by JBoss and Active Endpoints, will introduce Java developers to business process management suites (BPMS) using ActiveVOS and to the JBoss SOA Platform.

There are two files attached to this post. The first is an iPod-formatted .m4v file for our podcast feed subscribers. The second file is a DivX-encoded .avi with slightly larger resolution.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #32: BPMS for Java developers [78:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (771)
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Every Wednesday, we have a live webinar in which we introduce the ActiveVOS BPMS (business process management suite) using a fictional company called Classic Cars. You can always sign up for a live webinar, held every Wednesday at noon Eastern time, by clicking on the blue box on the right-hand side of every page on the ActiveVOS website.

By popular request, we recorded a recent webinar and are putting it into the podcast feed for subscribers and other visitors. There are two versions of the file: a smaller .m4v file, perfect for viewing on an iPod and a larger DivX-encoded .avi file in slightly higher resolution.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #31: An Introduction to BPM with the ActiveVOS 6.2 BPMS [76:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (418)
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Today, Active Endpoints announced ActiveVOS 6.2, including ActiveVOS’s new MultiSite capability. ActiveVOS becomes the first business process management suite (BPMS) to enable multiple, geographically dispersed data centers to be joined together to execute and manage BPM applications. More details are in the press release attached to this post.

 Active Endpoints Ships ActiveVOS 6.2 MultiSite BPMS: Download (150)

Continuing the very fast pace of innovation and product releases, Active Endpoints is pleased to ship ActiveVOS 6.2. Coming less than 60 days after the release of ActiveVOS 6.1, our new ActiveVOS 6.2 delivers an industry-first: true multi datacenter fail-over and clustering. ActiveVOS 6.2 makes it possible for BPM developers and users to ensure that long-running and crucial business processes are never lost.

Read more about ActiveVOS 6.2 MultiSite in the PDF attached to this post.

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We are once again pleased to include episode # 40 of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition podcast in our podcast feed. In this episode, Dana and a panel of industry analysts (and one vendor representative from TIBCO) discuss PaaS — or platform as a service.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #40: Platform as a Service [53:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (418)
 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #40: Platform as a Service - transcript: Download (51)

I am joined by Luc Clément, senior director of product management and Michael Rowley, director of technology and strategy, for a discussion of our latest release, ActiveVOS 6.2. This release of the ActiveVOS BPMS introduces MultiSite and makes ActiveVOS the first BPM system that can extend business process management applications across geographically separated data centers. Luc and Michael discuss the benefits and implementation details of MultiSite.

You might also be interested in reviewing our podcast from March, 2009 on ActiveVOS 6.1.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #30: ActiveVOS 6.2 [21:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (378)

Today, Active Endpoints announced it has received funding of $5M. Details are in the attached press release.

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We are pleased to post an update on ActiveVOS 6.1 by Bloor Research’s Simon Holloway.

In the PDF attached to this post, Simon overviews the ActiveVOS BPMS, outlines how it works and describes how users will benefit from using ActiveVOS in their BPM roll-outs.

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Today, we are pleased to announce that Active Endpoints’ ActiveVOS BPM system has continued to experience rapid growth and acceptance among BPMS buyers worldwide. The details are in the press release attached to this post.

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We are pleased to distribute through our podcast feed the lastest edition of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect: Analyst Insights podcast.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #39 [53:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (513)
 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #39 - transcript: Download (63)