You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) is a
meta-language for the modeling of business processes, like XML, is a
meta-language for the modeling of business data. BPML provides an abstracted execution model for collaborative and transactional business processes based on the concept of a transactional finite-state machine.
On June 29, 2005, the Business Process Management Initiative and the Object Management Group announced the merger of their Business Process Management (BPM) activities. The combined activities will continue BPMI's and OMG's work and
focus on Business Process Management, including:
Refinement and promotion of BPMI's Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
as the basis for business modeling
Delivery of OMG's Business Process Definition Metamodel (BPDM)
Business language, vocabulary, and rules
BIM (Business Information Management)
EAI (Enterprise Application Integration)
B2B (Business to Business collaboration)
Web Services Information and Processes
Security Policy and Management
Refinement, promotion and education of the principles, approaches and
tenets of Business Process Management within the broader business community
The June 29 announcement also stated that the OMG will
continue integrating and reusing complementary business integration and Web
services standards such as WS-BPEL from OASIS, WSDL and XML Schema from W3C.
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The Process: Business Process Modeling using BPMN by Alexander Grosskopf, Gero Decker, Mathias Weske Description: The Process, unlike most explanations of BPMN, captures both the practical value and the excitement that results from putting this powerful technique to work. Skip the dull training. Give people the right tools and pass around copies of this book. Process diagrams will start growing like ivy. --Dan Woods, CTO and Editor of Evolved Media. __________ Houston, we've got a problem. Bus...
Modeling Business Processes: A Petri Net-Oriented Approach (Cooperative Information Systems series) by Wil van van der Aalst, Christian Stahl Description: "This book is an absolute must for everyone who wants to learn the state of the art for modeling of business processes by means of colored Petri nets. Wil van der Aalst's group at Eindhoven University of Technology is world-leading in the field -- both when it comes to the theoretical foundation, and in practical applications and tool support. The book can be read with little or no...
