Posted By Mike Lees, Senior Director Product Marketing

We’ve recently exceeded 40,000 distributed copies of ‘BPM Basics for Dummies’.  Whichever way you look at it, that is a lot of books and a lot of ‘Dummies’ (sorry, ‘uninitiated, potential BPM adopters’!).

Posted by Michael Lees, Senior Director BPM Product Marketing, Software AG

Like Sandy Kemsley I am uncomfortable using the phrase ‘Eating Your Own Dog Food’. As a vendor, using our own software should be a desirable and valuable effort, whereas (for most of us at least) eating dogfood….not so much! In a recent post, Sandy put out a request for BPM vendors to describe what they are doing with their own software. The timing was great for Software AG as we have recently started an effort – ‘BPM@Software AG’ - to document and communicate years of internal experience and results with BPM.

Posted by Mike Lees, Senior Director Product Marketing, Software AG

After years of repeated messaging from across the industry, there now seems to be a general recognition of the bigger process management picture that provides the backdrop for the underlying technology hawked by BPM(S) [add or remove the ‘S’ depending on what they are selling you…more on this later] vendors.

Posted by Mike Lees, Senior Director Product Marketing, Software AG

I have been conducting a simple test at some of the BPM+SOA Seminars we have held recently and the results have been interesting.

The test is simple – complete the following sequence 2 , 4 , ? , ?

About half the room answers 6 , 8 (the linear thinkers) and half the room (the exponential thinkers) answer 8 , 16. Most interesting though is that the majority of the linear thinkers are from IT!