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Heard about the near future of IBM BPM from the horses mouth. Looking at the road map that IBM has.
Business Process Management (BPM) is about collaboration between people and so is Social Networking. BPM is about capturing, improving and managing business processes. BPM requires collaboration between various people responsible for the process. Social Technologies provide the ability for people to collaborate, discuss, provide feedback/reviews, share documents. So logically it makes sense to utilize Social Technologies for Business Process Management.
BPM Suites have revolutionized the way organizations can approach Business Process Improvement. This is the reason why BPM is catching up as an Organizational dicipline for process improvement. Organizations are able to setup BPM COE as an umbrella group working with the IT and Business teams for automating processes.
IBM BPM, will be a combination of the WebSphere Lombardi Edition and WebSphere Process Server (WPS), and seems to be thoughtfully designed combining best of both the tools. IBM BPM takes the Process Center of WLE driving both the human workflow centric Process Designer (same as WLE Authoring Environment) and the Integration Designer (or WPS). On the backend, IBM BPM takes the Depolyment Manager from WPS giving WLE which is very powerful and user-friendly compared to the currect WLE deployment process.
I have created a new LinkedIn Group for Lombardi BPM Users. Its called “IBM Lombardi BPM Users Group”.
Finally, there is something to cheer for the Lombardi Teamworks user community. IBM has made the WebSphere Lombardi Edition (formerly Lombardi TeamWorks) certification available as part of the IBM Professional Certification Program. Also, Lombardi training is no longer a pre-requisite for the certification.
Business Process Management (BPM) is a technology that is emerged to the top in the last few years. The reason is very obvious, we are living in a dynamic world where the market place around us is changing at a very rapid pace. BPM provides the platform to develop agile processes utilizing the services provided by existing applications.