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I just came back from BEA Welcome Event in Dharmawangsa Hotel, Jakarta last week (August 14, 2008). The event talks about the new product road map for Oracle middleware after the acquisition of BEA Systems.

Actually the road map has been made official since July 1st, 2008, complete webcast and presentation of the entire roadmap can be found in Oracle website here.

In the BPM area, as Bruce Silver predicted before in his observation, Oracle is trying to combine Oracle BPEL Process Manager and BEA Aqua Logic BPM into one integrated BPM solution. Oracle BPEL Process Manager is targeting the enterprise integration perspective with its support towards Web Service standard and BEA ALBPM is targeted towards workflow and business process optimization perspective.

At this moment, the two solutions still feel as separate solutions, with each of them has its own IDE and running environment, maybe Oracle will try to combine them in the future into one integrated framework for BPM. We’ll see how it develops.

I will be running the Business Process Management Workshops in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur by the end of this month.

This 2-days workshop is titled “Implementing Continuous Improvement in Your Organization”. It is organized by JCCreative and supported by PWS Consulting and IASA. We will be discussing about the BPM Implementation Framework in details and how to embed BPM within the organization and aligning it with other technology initiatives like SOA, ECM and Web 2.0

The BPM Implementation Framework itself is a 10-phase implementation framework which covers the following:

• Organization Foundation
• Process Foundation
• Technology Foundation
• Elaboration
• Improvement
• People and Technology Development
• Deployment
• Monitor and Benefit Realization
• Continuous Improvement

The framework will guide the organization by providing a solid reference in implementing BPM. It will touch essential elements, like:

• Aligning the BPM initiative with the organization strategy
• Setting up rules and guidelines for the process models
• Taking a look at the IT infrastructures that support the BPM initiative
• Setting up the project goals, business case and project teams for the execution of the projects
• Understanding, modeling and baselining based on the current processes
• Improving and prioritizing the improvements
• People development, people change management and integrating supporting IT infrastructure to develop an automated BPM solution
• Deployment, training of staffs
• Monitoring and realizing the BPM benefits in each phase of the framework
• Last, but not least, embedding and converting the results of the project into the business-as-usual daily activities

The workshop targets a broad range of audience from business process consultants, architects, IT consultants to C-level executives. For further information about the workshop and registration details, please visit http://jccreativemax.com/bpm-home1.htm

I am really looking forward for the workshops.