Keynote presentation to BPM TEM 2013 at MITRE

1. BPM: What is Next
Denis Gagné,
www.BusinessProcessIncubator.com
Chair BPMN MIWG at OMG
BPMN 2.0 FTF Member at OMG
BPMN 2.1 RTF Member at OMG
CMMN Submission at OMG
Chair BPSWG at WfMC
XPDL Co-Editor at WfMC
My take on bpmNext 2013

2. How Technology Innovation Will Change BPM Practice,
Paul Harmon, Executive Editor,
BPTrends.
BPM is an ever morphing practice
BPM has not crossed Moore’s Chasm
BPMS are direct at Level 5 while organizations at Level 2-3

3. Process Mining: Discovering Process Maps from Data,
Anne Rozinat and Christian W. Gunther,
Fluxicon
The process reality is always more complex than the
ideal (To Be) one
Insightful process maps directly from raw data
Sleek, interactive charts, and drill down into detailed information
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4. Managing Process Roles and Relationships,
Roy Altman,
PeopleServ
Cross-functional collaboration entails knowing who
everyone is and the roles they play in the organization
Relationship Management enables multiple “views” of the organization
and flexible groupings of workers in a self-maintaining, centralized
information hub and relationship repository.
Contexts can be traversed in order to control access and establish
contextual reporting structure

5. Lowering the Barriers to BPMN,
Gero Decker,
Signavio
BPMN modeling made easier
Generates BPMN from a basic spreadsheet-like input
Generates diagrams from voice input
Applies best practices and style guides (e.g. B Silver)
Bleeding edge hand gesture modeling

6. Automated Assessment of BPMN 2.0 Model Quality,
Stephan Fischli and Antonio Palumbo,
itp commerce
Process model quality metrics
Variety of quality rule sets for different use cases
Dimensions = validation, conformance, complexity, consistency and
vagueness
Assess models maturity level as indicator of organization process
maturity

7. Data-Centric BPM,
John Reynolds,
IBM
Processes takes place within a wider Business Context
“Business Context” defines attributes and rules of data elements, and
create a data lifecycle model
Tasks are triggered via data events
Knowledge workers do unscripted work to complete tasks, within the
Business (information) Context
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8. Extreme BPMN: Semantic Web Leveraging BPMN XML Serialization,
Lloyd Dugan and Mohamed Keshk,
IMSC US
Ontological representation of BPMN models
BPMN used for enterprise-level services modeling
Allows advanced queries on processes using ontology-based semantic
search engine
Allows the discover patterns and anomalies across now seamlessly
linked repositories
Image: http://www.mmmeeja.com/blog/semantic-web/semantic-search-user-

9. Model-BPMS Roundtripping,
Jakob Freund,
camunda services GmbH
The fallacy of zero code BPM
BPMN 2.0 engine: Java based open source
Embeddable framework as part of Java application development
Camunda Cycle: roundtripping between third party BPMN modelers
and Camunda eclipse based modeler

10. BPM for Mobile, Mobile for BPM,
Scott Francis,
BP3 Global, Inc.
BPM solutions lack a “sense” of mobile
A mobile BPM solution is more than a task list or activity stream
Responsive + Mobile first
REST APIs allow mobile app developers to build richer applications

11. Social and Mobile Computing for BPM and Case Management,
Rhonda Gray,
OpenText
Cloud, Social and Mobile enablement
Touch: An integrated mobile + social platform wrapper of Opentext
BPM+ACM Solutions
Social activity stream exposed as an embeddable widget

12. Connecting BPM to Social Feeds Improves User Adoption,
Miguel Valdes Faura,
BonitaSoft
Social integration
Connects BPM to social media, not the other way around
Providing connectivity to mainstream Enterprise Social Media Platforms
such as Salesforce Chatter, or to other social media like Twitter,
Facebook or Google Talk.
Events on social platform initiate a process

13. Model-Driven Generation of Social BPM Applications,
Emanuele Molteni,
WebRatio
Generating social BPM web applications
Process logic is defined in BPMN process activities are modeled in
WebML
WebML : a graphical modeling language that defines the user interface,
data connections, and business logic by connecting widgets in a
diagram

14. Social Process in the Cloud with Facebook,
Joel Garcia,
TidalWave Interactive
Facebook apps with BPMN under the hood
Designer of the Facebook app doesn’t need to understand process
modeling
Facebook users become full participants in cloud-based consumer-
oriented processes
If needed or desired BPMN modeler can be exposed

15. Goals in the Process Continuum: from BPM to ACM and Beyond,
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies and
Dan Neason, Living Systems Technologies
Goal Oriented BPM
Process automation across the continuum from unstructured to
structured processes
Connects goals at the business execution level to goals at the process
automation level
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16. Visual Analytics and Smart Tools,
Robert Shapiro,
Process Analytica
Process optimization via visual analytics
Integrated set of toolkits for modeling, simulating, analyzing and
optimizing processes
Ability to conduct experiments and rapidly compare and navigate
between views

17. KPI Risk Assessment,
Manoj Das,
Oracle
Next generation BAM Composer
Allows non-technical business users to create temporal BAM queries
including trending measures
Supports creation of mashups combining strategic BI data with
operational BAM data and external sources.

18. Operational Process Intelligence for Real-Time Business Process
Visibility,
Thomas Volmering and Patrick Schmidt,
SAP
Real-time process visibility across “big“ end-to-end
business processes
Based on SAP HANA
Provides operational decision support for line-of-business users

19. Fully Exploiting the Potential of BPM in the Cloud,
Carl Hillier,
Kofax
Cloud-based deployments
Kofax TotalAgility
Instant provisioning of cloud based BPM on Microsoft’s Windows Azure
Cloud platform
Public cloud, private cloud and on premise

20. The Decision Model,
Larry Goldberg, Knowledge Partners International,and
Tomer Srulevich, Sapiens
New way of modeling and maintaining Business Logic
The Decision Model groups the rules into structures that can be
understood, communicated and managed at enterprise scale
The Book and the Tool
DECISION: Tool with graphical representation of a decision model

21. BPM for the Internet of Things,
Troy Foster and Tom Debevoise,
Bosch
BPM driving devices
A Remote Service Portal is implemented as a BPMN process
Receives and act on events triggered by aggregated data from physical
sensors

22. Performing Collections of Activities as Means to Business Ends,
Denis Gagne,
Trisotech
Process Identification and Discovery
Gradually structure elements using a pinboard paradigm
Tag text in exiting documentation
Export via standards: BPMN,CMMN

23. Event-Driven Rules-based Business Processes for the Real-Time
Enterprise,
Dave Duggal,
EnterpriseWeb
Hyperlinked Enterprise Applications
A Web-style (REST) architecture to enable dynamic
applications
Processes are networks that can be freely interconnected
by end users to manage work

24. Malleable Tasks and ACM,
Helle Frisak Sem,
Computas AS
Norwegian Food Safety, winner of 2012 ACM Award
A plan corresponds to a loosely ordered set of task definitions
The result (or side-effect) of performing a particular task may be
invoking another task.

25. Antifragile Systems for Innovation and Learning Organizations,
Keith Swenson,
Fujitsu America Inc
Unstructured Work
Fragile, Robust, Antifragile
Muscles are adaptive, the body is antifragile
Enforcing a single best practice on an organization makes it fragile
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26. Best in Show
Antifragile Systems for Innovation and Learning Organizations,
Keith Swenson,
Fujitsu America Inc
Goals in the Process Continuum: from BPM to ACM and Beyond,
Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies and
Dan Neason, Living Systems Technologies
Process Mining: Discovering Process Maps from Data,
Anne Rozinat and Christian W. Gunther,
Fluxicon
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27. BPM: 4 Next Things
Lowering UX barriers
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Leading indicators analysis
Social, Mobile, Cloud
Unstructured work
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