BPM with TIBCO Business Studio
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Loading ...A recent post by Kaushal Mashruwala over at Financial Express titled "SOA Strategy and Execution is Failing in Many Companies" inspired this particular post that will look at BPM a little more closely with the use of a tool that I consider critical when discussing BPR.
"the SOA value proposition is fundamentally unimportant to business people. It’s just another way to implement an application. What’s more important to business managers is how they can change, through technology, the way their businesses are run. And that’s where BPM comes in."
TIBCO Business Studio is a Business Process Modelling application by TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TIBX) out of Palo Alto, California. Simplistically, the software provides two distinct views of a single process model that are relevant to both IT and Business, providing a means of collaboration between the two groups that would have otherwise required the use of multiple applications. The software also incorporates robust simulation capabilities using either real data or provided algorithms, that integrate quite well with the overall interface.
The purpose of this specific post is to share my personal perspective learning how to use this application that I think many would argue is a relatively advanced piece of software. It is this advanced functionality that frightens a lot of BPM practitioners and keeps them latching on to the more comfortable tools like VISIO, not allowing them to tap into some of the more useful benefits of a tool like Business Studio.
There are many excellent blogs and other resources on the Internet which explore methodologies and Best Practices for business process re-engineering, project management, systems implementation, software engineering, and change management. However I could not find much help with unlocking value of integrated utilization of these disciplines to facilitate Organizational Transformation. In this blog I would like to focus on this subject. I would like to stress that this is not an academic inquiry, but a practitioner's desire to discuss and share practical business knowledge and Best Practices. Let's see how it evolves - "Every brilliant idea quickly degenerates into a lot of hard work" - Peter Drucker.