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Yearly Archives: 2006

Will BPMN 2.0 make BPEL irrelevant?

By Dick Weisinger

As technology is speeding up, the lifecycle of standards is shrinking.  Business Process Execution Language or BPEL is one good example.  BPEL has its origins in competing standards sponsored by IBM and Microsoft, WSFL and Xlang.   The two languages were…

Retention Management is Central to Corporate Record and Information Management Policies

By Dick Weisinger

Compliance comes in many flavors.  In the US, regulations include Sarbanes-Oxley, 5015.2, HIPAA, and SEC Section 17a.  Central to these many different kinds of compliance is the concept of Retention Management.  Retention management refers to company policies that are created to…

Ad Hoc Workflow and ECM

By Dick Weisinger

The terms Ad-hoc workflow and Ad-hoc routing describe a type of business process that defies easy capture and description.  They refer to business processes that are created in a dynamic and flexible manner.  An Ad-hoc workflow describes the creative work process…

Adobe's Flex Challenges Web 2.0's AJAX

By Dick Weisinger

After a year of consolidating Macromedia assets, Adobe is beginning to move forward aggresively with their FLEX product.  Yesterday they announced an updated FLEX 2.0 with a much more attractive pricing model. As an Adobe Solution Network Developer member, this announcement…

Business Process Buzzwords — Now SOA 2.0

By Dick Weisinger

The acronyms and names associated with business process optimization continue to evolve.  There was BPR and Workflow, then SOA and Web Services, and now SOA 2.0 with events? The late 80’s to the mid-90’s saw the rise of BPR (Business Process…