The nature of BPM often requires integrations to other systems to retrieve information. Depending on the nature of the integration these can often be slow. Where the same data is being retrieved many times (e.g. reference data) and across user sessions, an application can achieve a performance boost by introducing…
The reporting framework in IBM BPM provides a good platform for building real-time reports & dashboards but this is often not what I use them for. The Report & Scoreboard components provide a container for serving any custom HTML pages to the user via the portal. Frequently, I end up…
The ability to provide smart effective dashboards is often one of the main selling points of a BPM platform. Dashboards (or scoreboards if you’re from the Lombardi/IBM BPM world) provide the visibility across your process needed to turn what is essentially workflow into Business Process Management. Without this visibility it…
As a BPM developer I come across the term “Agile Development” all the time. The meaning of the term seems to change from project to project. Often a misconception is that if you use an Agile Development methodology, you can do the same amount of work in less time, this…