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Agility
Through BPM and SOA
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The
BPM/SOA Community, BPTrends, ebizQ and SearchSOA have announced the
winners of the 2010 BPM/SOA Case
Study Contest they ran together.
The winner was the Van Ameyde
Group, an international insurance claim processor based in
Holland, closely followed by Amerisource Bergen, a
pharmaceutical supply chain company.
Van Ameyde replaced 10 different claim processing applications by a
single one, and reduced its claim processing times by 30%.
AmeriSource estimates that it saved $40M a year by applying BPM to
its invoice reconciliation process.
More details on the contest Web
site.
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Business
Architecture Information Day
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The
quarterly Object Management Group meeting was held in Cambridge,
Mass., on Sep. 20-24. It included a quite successful Business Architecture Information
Day consisting of 6 talks and 2 panels, all of excellent
quality.
The key takeaways are:
- BA has been talked about for years, but it is now seeing a good
adoption trend in major companies, where it helps management align
its vision, strategies, initiatives, systems and metrics (why,
what, when, where, how, and how much).
- It is a serious (and seriously challenging) task. Pfizer, for
example, has a dedicated BA team of 10 full-time people. Don't fool
yourself that a multi-billion dollar company can do this with a
couple part-time people. Not if it wants the effort to yield
results.
- While tools are not the first priority, there are now rich tool
suites from IBM/Rational, MEGA, Sparx, Adaptive, Troux, and quite a
few others.
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Let
There Be Light: the Luminoso Project
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Luminoso, developed at the MIT
Media Lab, is a visualization tool for semantic spaces extracted
from text documents. While still a research project, it is fast
becoming popular with companies that are challenged by the mass of
unstructured text information (e.g., open text survey answers, or
tweets that mention them) and how to analyze it without using large
amounts of human resources.
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ACM
Library: Most Popular Books
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The
books below are the most popular by area of specialization. ACM
members, Safari and Books24/7 subscribers may have free or
reduced-price access.
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"If
you have poor governance, project management and strategy overall,
a 'Chief Cloud Officer' ain't gonna do you any
good."
-
Christopher Hoff (@Beaker on Twitter)
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Notable Non-Profit of the Month
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This
is not going to be a regular feature, but since education issues
are dear to the heart of many people in science, technology, and
business, it seems worth posting about Learning Unlimited, a
remarkable effort to create week-end programs taught by volunteer
college students to middle and high schools students. Several major
universities, including Stanford and MIT, endorsed the program and
now run events several times a year, with up to 2300
attendees.
The non-profit organization is staffed by volunteers, operates on a
ridiculously low budget, and is hard-pressed to meet demand from
schools because of its limited funding. On its Web site, Learning U
advertises several ways to help them.
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