bpm

Are BPM solutions worth the investment in money, time and effort?

This is more an architecture related question than a programming one, but I think it might be useful to developers given that I have been wondering this myself for some time. I have no experience with Business Process Management tools use or implementation. (The closest thing I have used is BizTalk server, but I know that it is not real...

Should I use a state machine or a sequence workflow in WF?

I have a repeatable business process that I execute every week as part of my configuration management responsibilities. The process does not change: I download change details into Excel, open the spreadsheet and copy out details based on a macro, create a Word document from an agenda template, update the agenda with the Excel data, creat...

jBPM, concurrent execution and process variables

When a process in jBPM forks into concurrent paths, each of these paths gets their own copy of the process variables, so that they run isolated from each other. But what happens when the paths join again ? Obviously there could be conflicting updates. Does the context revert back to the state before the fork? Can I choose to copy indivi...

What is the value of BPM? (Business Process management) Is it worth using? In which cases?

And I'm not meaning Bits Per Minute, but Business Process Management. At first though BPM was overestimated, because the technology is somehow easy to address, but I've learned the value of BPM suites is in involving the non-technical, the business experts into the software design. I know, the user is always with us during analysis, ...

Disadvantages of automating a business process?

What would be the disadvantages (if any) of automating business process for a Enterprise/organization? ...

BPM for microfinance

What are the risks and advantages of using BPM for microfinance ...

What is the purpose of a BPM in a purest architecture?

I am putting together an architecture for a mid sized company who want to introduce a BPM (Business Process Management) tool. I understand that this would be helpful and want to introduce it but stuggle to find its appropriate place within the architecture. I want to know when and how you should use a BPM tool, how do you differentiate...

BPM software: ProcessMaker vs. WorkFlow Foundation

I am interested in learning some BPM software. One of such software is ProcessMaker. But the problem with this is that it is lacking of documentation. My question here is that what about Workflow foundation? Does it allow one to configure a workflow process without writing code? And overall, is it easier to learn that ProcessMaker? ...

SOA Governance Explained

Does anybody have an idea what SOA Governance is all about? What is the difference (or correlation) between SOA Governance and IT Governance? and How can it be applied using SOA platforms available in the market? Can a project built on SOA platform be successful without applying SOA Governance? How? I am talking here from a practical po...

Bpm audio detection Library

I'm looking for a library that simplify tempo/bpm audio detection. Something similar to this http://adionsoft.net/bpm/ , but to use on *NIX machines. Any language, but preference goes to php, perl, python. ...

Open source document approval system or framework?

We have a new for a fairly simple workflow system, specifically focused upon business documents. It essentially accepts different types of documents (purchase requests, invoices, etc) and routes them to different roles and flows based on variables attached to them (total dollar amount, etc). I'm open to either using an existing one or w...

Difference between BPM and App. workflow?

I know there is a lot of talk about BPM these days and I am conscious that some may see it to be a craze rather than a fundamentally important piece of software. As someone from what most would call 'The Business', I have been doing my best to learn about BPM to ensure we continue to make decisions that not only make sense to the busine...

How to create Web based visual Process Designer ?

I have been ask to design web based process designer (Business Process designer) in asp.net/c# . I have currently one programmer in my team and we have two months for this.We have found some open source BPM designers but we want to design our own as for our learning thirst? please give suggestions ...

Workflow editing software required - recommendation

Any recommendations for software to allow users to edit a workflow representing a business process? Ideally .NET, but any technology (winform / asp.net / wpf / etc) would do. I would need to be able to initialize / investigate the layout through code to map it to my system - either via an object model or a file in a known format. I've ...

web based workflow solution

The main task is to work on documents which go through some specific workflow which is represented by a lucid graph (diagram). We need document versioning, different roles & permissions and most importantly we need to let the users create the workflow graphs (with all those guard conditions for transitions, mail notifications, calendar e...

Oracle BPM Ajax to Fuego Object

I have a specific requirement to have autocomplete in an Oracle BPM project. I have been trying to figure out the best way to achieve this activity. I have a good foundation of jQuery and auto-complete. What way do you find yourself satisfing these types of requirements? I would like to get the response straight from the object. ...

Free and Open Source BPMS for .NET

Have there been any free and open source BPMS released which run under .NET which are comparable (if not fuller) in functionality and maturity as JBPM? ...

Define or describe a process-centric approach in software development

I am trying to figure out the difference between taking a process-centric approach in software development as opposed to data-centric. What are the pros and cons of the two approaches and etc.? I've Googled around but I haven't found a definite answer on why process-centric is better or not better. ...

Need technology recommendation/suggestion

My company is in need of a task management system to handle scenarios as simple as "Purchase a computer for X" to "Relocate a person to another country". The simple scenarios are a single tasks handled by a single person, whereas bigger tasks can be broken down into multiple sub tasks delegated to multiple people during the workflow. Add...

Question about timing in C# real time audio analysis

I'm trying to determine the "beats per minute" from real-time audio in C#. It is not music that I'm detecting in though, just a constant tapping sound. My problem is determining the time between those taps so I can determine "taps per minute" I have tried using the WaveIn.cs class out there, but I don't really understand how its sampl...