BPM for All

Almost all major BPM suites include now process publisher as their essential component. Process publisher normally implements an essential mission of sharing process knowledge in an organization. Historically, process publishing first appeared as automatic creation of static collections of web pages representing business diagrams in a company and linked together by navigation trees and embedded hyperlinks. Recently, these process libraries began evolving into dynamic process portals. For many cloud BPM suites these portals already serve as a primary front end for online process collaboration and knowledge sharing. Typical features of process portals include: ·          Hierarchical process tree. ·          Inventory of business processes. ·          Direct navigation through embedded diagram links. ·          Int...

BPMN has definite strength in technical process automation. It is achieved through dozens of proprietary and open source implementations of BPMN engines tailored for interoperability with an impressive array of business software from various target domains. This strength is additionally reinforced with high degree of standardization ensuring transparent exchange of BPMN processes among all these applications and technologies. Perhaps, BPMN is one of most commonly used business language in the area of technical automated business processing. Process transparency creates a unique ecosystem in growing family of tools supporting open BPMN process collaboration and increases its attractiveness for wider business generalization. However, exactly these voluntary expansions create a potential trap of BPMN misuse. In regard of generic business structuring and vision, usage of BPMN might look much less beneficial and relevant. There definitely exist many other dedicated language...

There are many languages in the world: hundredths and, perhaps, thousands with dialects. Is it convenient? No. It would have been much simpler, if everybody speak, e.g. English (or Chinese, or whatever other language around). Would you like to abandon English and further speak only another language, just for the sake of uniformity and common understanding? Is it possible at all? No. Because language bears not only utilitarian communication capacity but a fundamental cultural identity, which cannot be abandoned without literal destruction of personality. Multilingual world is a cornerstone for cultural pluralism, creative evolution and even existence of the humankind. Similar situation is also with technical languages in general and business languages in particular. Fundamental diversity of technical and business vocabulary is one of primary driving forces behind creative evolution of modern technology. Abundance of languages appears not due to a whim or ignorance of their authors on...