A long day ends. Today I was a guest at the 5th PSD of the gfo (www.gfo-kongress.de). In 3 parallel streams various BPMS were presented by the manufacturers. Each manufacturer had 45 minutes time to refer to one of three topics. The first topic was modeling and documentation. Topic two Topic three was SOA and human workflow and process portals. I've mainly seen the presentations on human workflow.
I'm surprised positively how far the tool manufacturers are now. All of the products were exclusively zero-coding solutions . At the core of the BPMS is little difference can be discerned. All support versioning process, roles, documents, attachments, and various interfaces to external systems. But the devil is in the details. Some of the tools come along with self-designed modeling notations. Unfortunately, I also find that some of the presenters of process modeling had to be not much of a clue (who called an activity please "boss"?). In general, the greatest differences were found in the modeling. While some tools have to be modeled in the process models are very technical (are almost model-view controller), other manufacturers can continue and there will be very close to passing business processes to the engine (for example on Xpert.ivy or Appian ), or even model takes into account different levels (as with inubit ).
First, I must now process the first time all impressions. There is no compact way over such a large number of products to inform. Some of the tools I'm going to look at in the next few weeks, certainly not more accurate.
