Over the past month, we've had two separate projects in Oracle BPM 11g go into production. From what we hear, because the technology is fairly new, there aren't a tremendous amount of projects based on Oracle BPM 11g that have made it into production. In keeping with one of our goals in being a innovative and leading edge consulting organization, we feel it is a pretty cool honor to have two projects now in production and contributing tremendous value to our client. Both of the projects are used by end users geographically distributed around the world. Previously, th
Since most of the people at Avio seem to have some sort of flu or cold virus right now, it made sense to me to talk about how successful BPM engagements tend to lead to the viral adoption of BPM with an organization. Most organizations tend to start with small, tactical implementations in order to get their feet wet and see how BPM fits within their IT and LOB functions. If done properly, initial deployments tend to happen quickly and drive significant results. As a result, the rest of the organization tends to take notice and the collective light bulb goes turn on.
When most organizations start down the BPM road, it is often done with grand and lofty expectations. BPM projects, especially the initial endeavors, often are expected to be completed very quickly, with limited IT involvement, and deliver significant ROI in a short period of time. Vendors historically haven't done themselves many favors and have fueled their customer's perceptions that the LOBs can implement, change, and integrate their processes without having to significantly, if at all, involve IT resources.