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This year's Cordial was held on the 9th and 10th October in Putten. The yearly event is getting more popular because it was packed. Some of the highlights for me: A couple of very entertaining presentations with content. Must see: Freek Vermeulen  on why organisations find it so difficult to change. Magnus Lindkvist  on the present and future trends Meeting a lot of interesting people in the BPM field Partner dinner with excellent food Nice to hear that integration and BPM skills are still very much needed in the future :-) See the CEO of Cordys in person Presentation of CIZ of a project with Cordys Case Management. With  Ciber  i also participated within that project. So it was nice to hear of the succes The partnership of Cordys and Aquima . A business rule engine that can be used seeming less with Cordys And of course more can be found on  http://www.cordys.com/resources Looking forward to it again next year!

Business process management  (BPM)  is a  management approach  focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the wants and needs of clients. It is a holistic  management approach  that promotes  business  effectiveness and efficiency while striving for innovation, flexibility, and integration with  technology .  Business process management  attempts to improve  processes  continuously. It could therefore be described as a “ process  optimization  process .” It is argued that BPM enables organizations to be more efficient, more effective and more capable of change than a functionally focused, traditional hierarchical  management   approach . Overview A  business   process  is a “series or network of value-added activities, performed by their relevant roles or collaborators, to purposefully achieve the common  business  goal.” These  processes  are critic...

In a lot of projects i have done for customers there are a few misunderstandings i often see with BPM or Business Process Management.  1) You are not doing BPM when using a BPM tool It is often called already BPM because it is hot, but the business is not process oriented at all. This is because a BPM tool is introduced bottom up, but the organization is not process oriented at all. In fact the business is process oriented (by default there is of course always a process), but this is not analysed or controlled.  2) Flexibility comes not for free This is maybe in theory but in practice i have rarely seen this. Making a solution flexible requires a lot of future knowledge which is often very difficult of course. You can only make your BPM solutions flexible where you know you need the flexibility.  3) BPM does not solve it all As with all new hypes, this is the next magic tool that solves it all. Of course this is not the case and it requires a lot of good thinkin...

A couple of months ago I had a training in Codys BOP4 fundamentals and this week I developed my first demo bpm process with it. And I must say i was really impressed by the speed of development and out-of-the box functionality of the product!. The power of the product is the BPM part, but it also has an integration part. You can download a VM image here and there you find also a lot of documentation and tutorials. At the moment I am developing a demo for a customer, integrated with the Oracle OSB. Hope to blog more about the product soon.