Archive for the ‘Vision’ Category
I’m just back to France after spending 2 fruitful weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area. During those 2 weeks I met with more than 30 CEO’s and top executives of major open source companies including RedHat, SpringSource, OpenBravo, Canonical, Acquia, Ingres, JasperSoft, SugarCRM, Talend, eXo Platform, PushToTest, Hippo, SauceLabs, Extentech, AlienVault and GroundWork. I had a great time discussing open source interoperability, cloud computing, and BPM of course.
While initially this trip was supposed to be just one week, the famous volcano ash cloud helped me make the decision to stay a bit longer 
My trip started with the SugarCRM conference. I have to say that Larry Augustin and his team did a great job offering an impressive panel of speakers this year (and not only because I was part of it .) The main BonitaSoft partners were there – Talend, eXo Platform and JasperSoft – so we took the opportunity to discuss our product integration and joint activities (a couple of great things are coming there). The nice thing about those major events is that customers, community members and users also attend so it’s a perfect place to introduce new features and to get good feedback.
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With the release of Bonita Open Solution 5.x, BonitaSoft is bringing a graphical and intuitive BPM software to everybody. Through Bonita Open Solution you are now able to deal graphically with the entire life cycle of processes as only the most advanced proprietary solutions were providing so far.
At the same time, we want keep innovation high and to bring to any kind of end user his flavour of BPM. That includes Java developers so I would like in this post to focus on you!
While in Bonita Open Solution you can build your BPM based application by just leveraging the Bonita Studio, there are some situations in which you are looking for a native interaction between your Java based applications and frameworks and a BPM engine. Even more, you probably also mind about the way in which the BPM engine is going to be deployed together with your Java application, meaning embedded or centralized deployments.
Are you a Java developer? If yes, this post is for you! Charles Souillard, CTO of BonitaSoft, has just published a trilogy of articles in which he describes the essence of Bonita BPM Engine:
Enjoy!
Miguel
Theo Priestley from BPM Redux, one of the trend-setting blog in the BPM field, recently reviewed Bonita Open Solution. I could have posted here Theo’s (very) positive words describing the nice features that can be found in Bonita Open Solution, like easy connectivity to existing systems or straightforward web form edition, but this is not my point today.
What really stroke me when I read Theo’s post is how he brightly identified what is for me Bonita’s key asset facing the competition: the BonitaSoft Open Source Community. Read the rest of this entry »
A couple of days ago IBM announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi. In the press release covering this announcement, Rod Favaron, CEO of Lombardi, said:
Our shared vision has been to deliver technology that helps companies improve their effectiveness by better managing the processes that keep their businesses running. Becoming part of the IBM family will take this vision to a higher level and enable us to explore new opportunities together in product development, integration and go-to-market strategies.
Well, everybody knows both IBM and Lombardi business models, actually is the same: selling proprietary software at premium prices to customers! on that particular point companies merging should be easy
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In a recent post published earlier this week, Clay Richardson from Forrester provides an interesting analysis of the current state of the BPM market.
Clay starts with the statement that 2009 has been The Year of Business Process Management in the software industry:
Time flies when you’re having fun – and 2009 was a really fun and successful year for the BPM industry. Nearly all BPM vendors reported double digit revenue growth over the first three quarters of 2009 and many are already reporting strong pipeline growth for 2010.
This is really a good sign and confirms analysts’ forecasts. So if 2010 is expected to be even better for most of the BPM vendors, could you image how good it could be for BonitaSoft!
Today’s economic crisis favours enterprise open source players and BonitaSoft is set to democratise Business Process Management. A lot of companies, not only small ones, can’t afford the prices proposed by proprietary solutions. Even large enterprises can’t afford to deploy proprietary solutions for every single project.
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I’m really happy to introduce today the preview version of Bonita Open Solution, actually the version 5 of the well known Bonita project in which BonitaSoft is putting all its efforts and dedication last months.
Bonita Open Solution is the open source solution that will change the game in the Business Process Management market with a radically different approach of doing BPM. Bonita Open Solution allows to easily create ready-to-use end user applications based on processes for any kind of organizations and any kind of projects.
With the release of this preview version we want to share with the Bonita users, the community, our partners and the whole BPM industry some of the new features available and also introduce additional features that will be part of the final release of the product.
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In a recent post Connie Moore, VP Research Director at Forrester, shares what she has learned about Business Process Management in a summary format. While I agree with most of the points described by Connie, I must disagree with the point 6 : « BPM projects should be led by business, not IT, to avoid failure ».
I see more and more people associating BPM projects with business analysts as the key factor for a BPM deployment to succeed so I wanted to share with you my vision on that point.
The reason to explain this association is an evidence for me; BPM vendors are providing expensive BPM solutions that only the largest and wealthiest organizations can afford.
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