An interesting aspect of Business Process Management (BPM) is that it has the capability to change the way users look at an application. As developers and architects, we tend to look at BPM as a way to...
Businesses are process-centric: people interact with people, people interact with systems, and systems interact with systems. Regardless of the types of processes a business runs — order-to-cash process, procurement process, insurance claims process, etc. — the more efficient and effective the...
I’ve been traveling quite a bit lately, visiting with hundreds of OpenEdge customers and partners, presenting the latest OpenEdge enhancements and gathering their feedback on the current “state of the application development” world. And along the way I’ve learned a few things that I think are worth...
Following last week’s CEB TowerGroup, my main observation was that bankers are facing a ‘perfect storm’ that will necessitate a change in approach across the whole industry. Unfortunately it seems that bankers are still denying the circumstances they face, believing that they will survive.
Why do...
As I have mentioned many times before in various forums, next generation business applications need to be able to quickly adapt to business changes. The old, traditional way of hard-coding workflows is just not acceptable anymore. There is a need to drive continuous change and process improvement...