New Aspirations for BPM – Green and Global

By Doug Neal - Research Fellow, the Leading Edge Forum – Executive Programme

Track:
Keynotes

Summary:
A great deal has happened in the BPM world since Ismael met with a group of colleagues at a chateau in France to discuss the future of enterprise systems. Standards wars have been fought and forgotten. BPM has gone from being an exotic concept to being now fully embedded in products such as Coghead’s Do It Yourself application suite.

This first ever Intalio user conference is a good occasion to reflect and discuss the new challenges that BPM is now capable of addressing and that we should be working on. In this talk we will discuss two pressing problems that need our attention. The first problem is how do we create Green IT process management systems that help us identify, measure and reduce the 98% of energy use that is outside the data center and the desktop. The second is how we can create a federated process for global business collaboration and authentication among hundreds of companies who may never shake hands.

The first problem is key to creating a livable world for our children. The second problem is key to the global economy and, in effect, will require us to create an infrastructure with process driven collaboration built in. Now that BPM has grown up, these are the kinds of problems that we should aspire to solve.