Bpm News & Articles

Step by step, from version 5.0 to now 5.1 -- while still embracing all things SharePoint -- Clearview (news, site) announced updates to its enterprise CMS.

They include a new Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services-based API, Business Process Management (or Workflow in Clearview's terminology) module and a number of less substantial (yet important) enhancements.

We haven’t heard much from Datum International in the recent past, so it’s a delight to announce the launch of their new enterprise content management solution, KnowledgeWorker.

The Software-as-a-Service solution enables employees, customers and suppliers to collaborate on information and to participate in managed and audited business processes.

The folks at Clearwell Systems, whose platform works to streamline the eDiscovery process, have looked into their crystal ball and have offered a few predictions for the new year. Among them, trends that respond to financial and legal stresses as well as a need for more collaboration. The most compelling of their predictions lay within the realm of compliance and technology.

It’s no secret that many organizations have invested time and money into setting up a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) environment expecting it to save them time and money. And it can make a huge difference.

However, some organizations are not operating as efficiently as they could be when utilizing SharePoint for business process management (BPM) initiatives.

“Automating Document-Centric Processes within SharePoint” Webinar by Mauro Cardarelli hopes to help attendees to understand how that can be changed.

Some of the topics that will be touched on in this Webinar include:

• Leveraging existing investments in SharePoint
• Expanding knowledge with SharePoint
• Discussing how paper-based information can be incorporated into BPM systems
• Tying document capture and imaging technologies into SharePoint
• Discovering how to help extract value from BPM

There is probably much more that Mauro Cardaerlli, director of portals and collaboration practice at Vitale Caturano & Company, will be discussing with attendees of this Webinar.

Anyone interested in the Webinar’s details or registration information can visit the AIIM Web site.

The event takes place at 2:00 - 3:00 PM (EST) on November 19, so don’t be late.

Wondering what’s going to happen to the ECM industry next year? AIIM offers you its look at the upcoming ECM trends.

Facilitating compliance and eDiscovery will be two of the top IT business problems, if not the top problems, says AIIM. Add to that the current economic conditions and cost-cutting initiatives as a top priority, and you’ve got yourself a (free) must-see Webinar.

AIIM and IBM invite you to join them for a discussion about the following trends and more to help you plan for a successful 2009:

• Compliance and eDiscovery: Enterprise content management investments will increase to offset external litigation support costs.
• SharePoint will continue to explode: Get organized or pay for it down the road.
• ECM as a shared service.
• Searching, or rather finding, information will continue to improve.
• Renewed interest in business process management (BPM)

When: December 10, 2008, at 2:00 PM ET
What: Webinar on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) in 2009
Where: Registration is open here

Being that Clearview Enterprise Content Management is, as they say, the first SharePoint-based solution, we think they rock pretty hard. Well, in the world of Microsoft at least.

And now, not even six months since we last reported an upgrade to Clearview ECM, they’ve gone and released version 5.0 (more rockage). The release offers lots of exciting changes and new features, including a new Business Process Management module and compatibility with Kofax 8.0.

Savvion, a business process management (BPM) company, has introduced Savvion BusinessManager 7.5, a business process management suite designed to allow users throughout an enterprise to create and manage the business processes. The new suite is the next generation of Savvion BusinessManager 7.0, first announced in November 2006.

By letting employees get involved “immediately” in the creation, deployment and use of BPM, BusinessManager 7.5 is relying on its user friendliness and its efforts to reflect “how people are already used to working.” If it sounds folksy, it is.

Alero Technology, a provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software products, launched Alero 2008 R1 ECM system with Oracle 10g and 11g support, enhanced compliance, electronic signature management, process simulator and a new .NET library.

Enterprise Content Management provider Open Text is diving deeper into content transactions by announcing a new solution called Transactional Content Processing (TCP). This new solution takes the company further into the world of business process management — a place where content and transactions are tightly intertwined.

BEA, a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has harnessed the powerful forces of the sea, resulting in the new BEA AquaLogic User Interaction Suite. It promises to help organizations roll with the power of the changing IT landscape, notably, the recent popularity of SOA, by driving new modes of collaboration, and improving productivity and participation.

With compliance issues top of mind for companies today, Identity and Access Management are critical components of any application. Keeping track of many users and their access to many different systems is often difficult and time consuming.

The Dot Net Factory understands this and has released the latest version of its EmpowerID suite. EmpowerID v4 is a Role-based Access Control (RBAC) suite for all enterprise resources.

EmpowerID offers a complete identity lifecycle management suite built on a .Net-based Service Oriented Architecture that utilizes Windows Workflow Foundation. And it’s based on Business Process Management.

Now if that doesn’t peek your interest….

CMS Watch and AIIM are joining forces to help enterprises in North America and Europe better understand business process management.

CMS Watch is an analyst firm that releases industry-oriented reports, while AIIM serves as the international authority on ECM, providing courses, certification and awards in the sector.

Business Process Management (BPM), while in demand, isn’t yet implemented consistently or systematically across organizations — at least, not by those surveyed by the Enterprise Content Management Association’s Industry Watch study.

This was the overriding theme of “BPM: Not Just Workflow Anymore,” which was released this week.

If the lack of quality business process management (BPM) functionality is tarnishing what has otherwise been a satisfying experience with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, then look no further than Skelta’s SharePoint Accelerator 2007.

If you ever wanted to create a catalog request, write a certificate of origin or issue a self-billed invoice, but were totally lost as to how to go about it, great news: you are saved.

These are just a few of the whopping 23 new document types available under UBL 2.0. OASIS, which last year played a major role in helping define international ECM standards, just approved v2.0 as an OASIS Standard, the highest level of ratification issued by the international standards consortium.