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Hewlett-Packard Co. has come up with a new strategy to increase use of its OpenView Business Process Insight (BPI) business process management and optimization software. The vendor is teaming up with integration partners in specific vertical markets to provide combined tools to deal with particular industry issues. HP is due to announce the first such relationship with Itron Inc. targeting the utilities market Monday.
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The complete business process diagram has many important exception features that must be accommodated. Unfortunately, these additional boxes and notations make it difficult for business users to understand. It would be nice if BPM diagramming tools would permit users to disable display of exceptions, compensations and timers attached to subprocesses. The tasks following these should ... not be displayed. This would clarify the core nature of the process and create a more useful business engineering tool.
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The Strategy workshop provides a clear overview and explanation of Business Process Management and its key components in order to set the scene for the detailed examination of important concepts and actual implementations. It provides you with the knowledge and tools to gain ownership and support by senior executives and users.
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"Offering TIBCO Business Studio for free will help close the gap between business and technical users in BPM and encourage the broad adoption of a standards-based modeling environment," said Jeff Kristick, senior director, Product Marketing, TIBCO Software. "Having a tool that caters to non-technical users will continue to drive innovation in BPM without weighing business users down with technical details."
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Embarcadero is continuing its support of the Eclipse community with its release of EA/Studio Community Edition, a free business process modeling (BPM) tool. This tool represents the third database tool built by Embarcadero on the Eclipse framework.
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BizPartner™ enables the design, analysis, optimization and automation of business processes. Using BizPartner™’s easy drag-and-drop interface, business users and/or software developers can draw, validate and publish workflow maps. The workflow maps are published to the BizPartner™ WebService via XML over SOAP. Users interact with the finished process using a BizPartner™ web interface that exposes a ToDo List, Watch List and Blank Forms as well as other tools.
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