Christina Lau is a Distinguished Engineer and leads the BPM Architecture and Advanced Technology Team, focusing on future BPM technologies and consumability improvements in the IBM BPM offerings. This blog shares perspectives on how business process management can help organizations become more responsive, provide insights from our customers BPM journey, and keep you up to date on the happenings around our BPM portfolio.

Seamless integration of Human Tasks and Business Processes

Can you imagine that we now have a new SOA Configuration Solution that can create a working Process Portal in under two hours in 5 simple steps:

1. Plug hard drive into a laptop or a workstation. The SOA Deployer image contains everything needed to deploy a working Process Portal.
2. Mount the hard drive and start the SOA Deployer image.
3. Access the Web UI using a browser and answer deployment questionnaire. There are 16 questions and between 29 to 68 parameters requiring input, with many of the entry fields containing meaningful default values.
4. Relax while images are deployed.
5. Wait for confirmation that the images are activated as specified.

That is all. This new pattern based deployment has emerged from extensive experience gathered from many of our customer implementations. Give it a try. I am sure you find this a huge consumability improvement.

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May 10 2008, 11:08:15 AM EDT Permalink

BPM at Impact 2008

At Impact 2008, IBM made a number of cool announcements around BPM. I also attended a number of sessions where customers spoke about their very interesting journeys towards BPM - from valuable lessons learned with unexpected (pleasant) surprises, to ROI quick wins and new insights on how to roll out their next BPM project. Craig Hayman also commented on how BPM is a bit like the early days of the application server where everyone is asking what BPM means.

Bruce Silver, a well-known analyst on BPM started blogging about our BPM story and how we need to tell our story better. He is absolutely right. We have done a lot in the BPM space in the last few years. There are a lot of BPM capabilities across the IBM Software Group portfolio, and our world-wide development teams have worked really hard to integrate many products to produce a truly integrated and compelling platform. The IBM BPM Suite that was announced at Impact is a testament to the establishment of BPM as an integrated suite in our software group portfolio.

I plan to use this blog to delve into a range of BPM-related subjects. We invite you to speak out on BPM through comments in the blog - from where your organization stands on BPM adoption, to your challenges and experiences. By tapping into the Wisdom of Crowds, we can all learn from each other and explore new ways to align your business with IT that can deliver immediate value to your company.