Manas Sarkar

With recent acquisition in BPM and SOA space, it is clear that those vendors who positioned themselves SOA vendor is feeling the pinch without a solid BPM offering. Now that IBM has acquired Lombardi and Progress has acquired Savvion it will be of interest to see how both of these companies going to use these product to position themselves in BPM space. However it is better to leave the roadmap definition with IBM and Progress. However the discussion point out here is; are these vendors responding to market need... I guess the reality is; they are doing so. Over the last few years I had been following few emerging trends around BPM adoption and these trends are getting stronger day by day, which clearly indicates that BPM is gaining ground faster than SOA. Some of these trends are Usage of BPM to deliver enterprise class application which enables IT to involve busine... (more)

Can BPM align Enterprise IT systems with business?

It's been an interesting journey in BPM space for me, starting with BPMS for application development to utilizing BPM as a mean to manage and control business process and IT investment. "BPM aligning Enterprise IT systems with business" seems to be a silver bullet for IT, but an appropriate approach to BPM can actually yield the said alignment. Here when I am talking about alignment, I am not talking about the typical benefit preached by BPMS product vendor like ability for business users to modify process, or ability for user to manage business rules or ability for business to... (more)

Telecommunications industry…..Technologies…..part 2

2010 has been crazy for me, so far. This is why it has taken me a long  time to come up with this second part. I shall keep this one short and crisp. So, let us begin from where I left in part 1 Telecommunications industry…..Basics…..part 1. Here, I shall attempt to touch upon the various telecom technology phases without going into the nitty-gritty's. You can find tons of technical details (for each technology) on the internet. My aim here is to highlight all the relevant technologies -at one place, in one blog. Briefly, the technology journey so far - A) 1G - Anal... (more)

Why Organization should Adopt BPM

After my first BPM implementation, I did not realize the promise of BPM since I was implementing a workflow based application using BPMS toolset. Don't get me wrong on this; as the solution we delivered was highly configurable and business process driven and the solution lasted for nearly 6 years before getting decomissioned. The point I am trying to make out here is; BPMS tools adoption itself has a wide range of benefit associated with it but BPM as an area has far reaching impact in shaping up IT to deliver business value. To realize business value organization should make ser... (more)

Collaborative Business Process Modeling

I just came across the group ABPMP (Association of Business Process Management Professionals) Toronto chapter. It's good to see these groups being formed to take BPM execution forward. I have yet to go through to see the activities to be taken up by these groups. Another thought that came across the same lines is the recent trend of mobile apps. All the product companies in the mobile gaming industry are creating the platform and driving on the collaborative model of people enhancing the applications on the platform. Having same analogy in BPM, I think there are many platforms a... (more)