BEA launches BPM

BEA Systems has unveiled AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7, the first release since BEA acquired Fuego in March 2006, reports Earth Times.

The new release takes a major step forward in bringing business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) closer together.

AquaLogic BPM Suite 5.7 helps business processes tap directly into SOA, by providing seamless browsing, discovery of and dynamic binding to managed services.

The hunt for more efficient and effective ways to extract valuable business information from the reams of data flying through the typical enterprise continues, leading to a wide variety of vendor partnerships and technology innovations, says TMCnet.

One of the hottest developments in the business performance management field is real-time analytics, which allows business managers to gain critical insight on everything from network configurations to supply chain operations.

Organisations that have deployed IBM`s new Information Server platform, for example, have a new real-time analytical tool in the form of the Applix TM1, which the company bills as an in-memory business performance application due to its ability to allow users from across the organisation to perform predictive analysis based on enterprise-wide data sets.

During the re-engineering wave many companies invested heavily in BPM, but over 80% of business process re-engineering efforts failed, reports India`s Network Magazine.

Subham Sarkar, a PricewaterhouseCooper consultant, says when companies went through the phase, many successful re-engineering efforts improved the concerned business to a better state, but a state that was static.

In many cases with late adopters of re-engineering, the change in requirements came even before the re-engineering process was through. As business requirements changed faster than ever, companies needed to adapt and change before they realised their return on investment.