JBoss takes on business process management
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JBoss Inc. has added business process management (BPM) to its growing roster of open source software.
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Joseph Chiusano, Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, provides an overview of the newly released OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM) standard and discusses the criticality of Web Services reliability for service-oriented architectures.
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TechWeb - JBoss designed the improvements to the open-source platform to provide better support for rich-client applications, and components found within service-oriented architectures.
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More open-source software for businesses: The Apache Software Foundation is launching a project for a Java process automation server.
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JBoss Application Server 4.0, the next version of the open-source application server, was released on Monday. The company claims that JBoss AS 4.0 is the first open-source application server to achieve J2EE
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Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality.  Compiere released its newest Production Release 2.5.1f !  The emphasis of this release was the improved Server infrastructure.  You can now monitor the (accounting, request, workflow, alert) processors and their logs from the web. The default URL is http://localhost/compiereMonitor and requires to log on with a user id with System Administrator role.  New are also Alerts - you define the situation you want to be alerted of and Compiere will send an email with details, if the conditions are met.  Document Value based Workflows allow you to start a workflow automatically, if a certain condition is met in any Entity in the system. You can use this for example to do a credit check for new Business Partners or when the address was changed.  Together with the Document Process Workflows and Alerts, you can now model all Business Processes.  Due to Server Infrastructure changes, you need to - Delete the jboss sub-directory Before upgrading (extracting the zip/gz) - After upgrading, you need to define Accounting and Request Processors for your clients. They are created automatically if you create a new client, but not for existing ones.  If you have a translated system, you should run "Synchronize Terminology" after migration or after importing the translation.   The Toronto training was quickly fully booked.  Note that the next intensive training "from the source" is December 6-10 in Miami, FL ... and book early if you want to guarantee your seat.  You can find the latest release here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=29057
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(Source: MKS) Are you struggling with too much process - trying to implement several different methodologies? - Or too little process, re-inventing the wheel with each new business development?  This white paper describes how to implement and bridge process methodologies such as CMMI and ITIL, delivering them as one process under one application management framework. It looks at MKS's process management platform, MKS Integrity, as an example of superior technology for integrated IT process management.
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JBoss Application Server 4.0, middleware recently certified for J2EE, is ready for enterprise production deployment, according to JBoss.
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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Part 2 in our series on business process execution In the last column in this series, we looked at the general concept of business process management with respect to SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based systems. In particular, we reviewed BPEL (the Business Process Execution Language) and what it offers and at some of the extensions for BPEL.â¦
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IBM's Solution for Compliance in a Regulated Environment is a suite of middleware tools that includes document and data management, application integration, business process management and collaboration features.
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Company looks to juice its application server business with a version tuned for smaller organizations.
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(Source: Symantec) This white paper demonstrates how the Symantec APM solution helps organizations keep SOA applications running at peak performance to improve interactions and enhance business agility, flexibility and productivity.
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Microsoft Corp. hopes to boost the adoption of BPM (business process management) applications by adding support for Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) in the workflow layer of Windows Vista, the company said Monday. It also has formed an alliance of software vendors aimed at making BPEL a more mainstream technology.
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Over the past few years, the concept of Business Process Management has come into vogue as a method for tying together the processes and software programs used throughout an enterprise. There are now a number of companies offering BPM software, including some smaller developers that offer BPM-specific programs, as well as a few power-players of the software industry who have recently stepped into the ring.
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Apps stack up JBoss software makes its debut today as a member of the Red Hat Application Stack. Red Hat is also to sell JBoss middleware subscriptions for the first time through its distributors and dealers.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Software AG plans to unveil details of Version 7.1 of the webMethods business process management suite on Wednesday, along with a new enterprise service bus (ESB) and a supply chain performance optimization tool. WhenÂ Software AG bought webMethodsÂ on June 1, it set ambitious targets forÂ integration of the two companies' product lines. This is the first update to the webMethods BPM suite since the merger: Version 7.0 was launched late in 2006. "They are making quite good progress, considering there's a lot to integrate," said Jason Bloomberg, a managing partner of IT analyst firm ZapThink. Among the BPM features that Software AG plans to unveil are simulation tools for testing the performance of new business processes, preconfigured performance indicators for management methodologies such as Six Sigma, and business calendar integration tools. Those allow the automatic offloading of certain tasks into workflow scheduling systems such as Lotus Notes or Exchange when human intervention is required, said Peter KÃ¼rpick, president and chief product officer of the webMethods product line. WebMethods is also getting its dose of "Web 2.0" technology: a new "tagging" feature will allow users to give the objects involved in business processes recognizable names, rather than those chosen by the program's developers or by systems integrators. "You can have one central instance and different ways of expressing it," KÃ¼rpick said. "This is particularly important when you go into a vertical market," he said, citing health care as an example where software tools borrowed from business might refer to "customers," but users would know them as "patients." Other new software elements include a business activity monitoring tool, Optimize for B2B, designed to give suppliers or customers a view of the supply chain, and the enterprise service bus with support for SOAP 1.2, WS Security, and WS-I. Software AG is already testing webMethods 7.1 with a few customers and will demonstrate it at theÂ Integration World 2007Â conference in Florida in early November. The software will be made generally available by the end of the year, KÃ¼rpick said The company has also been working on its services-oriented architecture (SOA) management and governance tools. It has taken the policy management tools from webMethods' Infravio line and its own CentraSite metadata store, combining them as CentraSite Governance Edition. It will unveil details of that product at the SOA Governance Summit in Copenhagen next month. With its focus on the webMethods BPM suite, Software AG will no longer sell its Crossvision BPM line, actually a rebranded version of Fujitsu's Interstage. Its goal is to help customers migrate to webMethods over the course of several years, during which it will continue to support the discontinued product. However, "customers are not yet lining up for migration," KÃ¼rpick said. This is one area where there's no rush, though, said ZapThink's Bloomberg: the majority of Crossvision BPM customers also use Software AG's Natural programming language and Adabas database, and they have no reason to leave the company.