BEA.Participate.08 Is Underway; Kaizen & BPM

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Arch2Arch Editor's Blog | May 12, 2008   8:17 PM | Comments (0)

BEA.Participate.08 is now underway, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference sessions and keynotes get started Tuesday morning, and run through Thursday morning. If you aren't able to attend, there are still ways to follow the activity. The BEA.Participate.08 Blog is a good starting point. You can also visit the Tracks & Sessions page, and download the full 20-page agenda (PDF).

BEA.Participate is "a celebration of innovation, exploring the marriage of technology and ideas. BEA.Participate.08 unites developers, architects, IT strategists, line-of-business leaders and executives in a unique business-oriented and technology-infused forum to learn, share and establish relationships with fellow practitioners." I wrote about the conference in some detail in my last Arch2Arch Editor's post.

I expect that we'll be seeing some interesting blog posts from BEA.Participate.08 attendees as this week proceeds!

We've just published a new Arch2Arch Article, Reza Shafii's Kaizen, BPM, and Agile Methodologies. In this article, Reza applies some innovative thinking in presenting the similarities and relationships between the Japanese business philosophy Kaizen, Business Process Management (BPM), and Agile software development methodologies. The result is a vision for optimization of BPM strategies and evolution.

We're also continuing to feature Quinton Wall's Rethinking Connectivity. In this article, Quinton describes how organizations can approach the problem of connectivity through defining four dimensions of connectivity: internal, external, industry, and hosted. Reorganizing our thinking about connectivity into these dimensions can lead to increased adaptability by the organization to changing trends.

Take a look at these if you haven't yet done so, and browse the full archive of Arch2Arch Articles for more architect insight.

In the Arch2Arch Blogs, Alex Toussaint continued his series on AquaLogic with his post AquaLogic BPM Suite 6.1 and AquaLogic Service Bus 3.0. In this post, Alex talks about the evolution of the AquaLogic BPM Suite (ALBPM) over the past 18 months, and provides screenshots that illustrate ALBPM 6.1 processes being published to the AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) server and a BPEL process being injected inside ALSB from ALBPM.

Peter Laird continues his investigation of Twitter as a business tool in Twitter Microfeed Covering the SaaS/PaaS/Cloud Markets for those without a Cognitive Surplus. Peter has crafted a Twitter microfeed for SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud Computing. You can view the current feed by going to http://twitter.com/ondemand. Peter also tells you how you can subscribe to the feed through your own Twitter account, if you'd prefer that method.

The highlight of the Arch2Arch Event Calendar is, of course, BEA.Participate.08, which is ongoing through Thursday morning this week (May 12-15) in Chicago, Illinois.

This month's Arch2Arch Poll asks:

Is event-driven architecture (EDA) a component of your enterprise systems?

Please participate by voting on the Arch2Arch home page.

Our previous poll asked "Are you using business process management software in your enterprise architecture?" 39% of respondents (11 votes) said "yes"; 46% (13 votes) said "no, but I plan to"; and 14% (4 votes) selected "no, it's not necessary".

If you've got a suggestion for a future Arch2Arch poll, feel free to post your idea as a comment below.

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