CTO Tuesdays two-part mini-series
March 5th, 2010 by Alex
If you haven’t been attending our CTO Tuesdays BPMS podcast, we’d like to invite you to become one of our “regulars” starting next week. We’re doing something a little different next week…more on that in a minute.
CTO Tuesdays is, we think, something unique for users of business process management technology. Every Tuesday at noon ET, 9am PT, 17:00 GMT, our CTO Michael Rowley, delivers short talks on a broad range of business process management topics.
These talks are detailed and technical. (Come with the rubber band on your propeller-head hat wound up very tight.) These BPMS podcasts are not ActiveVOS commercials (though we do demonstrate the concepts Michael is discussing in ActiveVOS). Each week, we tackle a single topic and try to limit content to about 30 minutes. After, we have a panel Q&A with attendees to discuss the content Michael — or our guest CTO — has presented. Personally, I can’t wait for the Q&A because I think it’s where I learn the most about BPM technology. The overall idea for the podcast is that in less than an hour, you can learn enough about some aspect of business process management and BPM technology to enable you to continue to explore BPM on your own.
So far, we’ve presented and recorded 15 episodes. And the response from the BPM community has been overwhelmingly positive. (Access replays at www.ctotuesdays.com and the feed at www.ctotuesdays.com/feed.)
Starting March 9 and continuing on March 16, we’re going to try something a little different. Michael will present, for the first time, two separate, but thematically related topics:
- On March 9: The state of BPMS state: persistence for process
- On March 16: How BPMSs support long-running transactions
The first topic is one I’ve nagged Michael to discuss: how does a BPMS persist long-running transaction state? The second takes this idea and builds on it by comparing a BPMS to a traditional transaction monitor (CICS, anyone?) and describing BPMS support for long-running business transactions.
No matter where you are in your thinking about BPM — a newbie, actively trying your first process project, a grizzled veteran — CTO Tuesdays is for you.
You can always register for the upcoming CTO Tuesdays at www.activevos.com/ctot. Registration is free.
Be sure to join us — and bring all your friends.
Tags: BPMS, CTO Tuesdays
March 8th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
[...] BPMS podcast to discuss persistence, transaction for BPM | VOSibilities I often tune in for Active Endpoints' CTO Tuesdays podcasts, since Michael Rowley provides some good technical depth about BPM. This week: part 1 of 2 on state, persistence and long-running processes. This is a classic problem with system-centric systems that are trying to become human-centric, since many human-centric processes are, by their nature, long-running, whereas many system-centric are STP that complete in a matter of minutes or seconds. Much different considerations come up, such as persisting state, and also the impact of model changes to in-flight process instances (the later of which I'm not sure that he's covering). Disclosure: I occasionally do paid webinars for Active Endpoints, but I'm not compensated in any way for telling you about CTO Tuesdays. (tags: bpm) [...]