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OGC and WfMC Partner to Advance Standards Goals
WAYLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in advancing standards-based, interoperable work flow and Web-enabled geospatial content sharing, modeling and visualization to address the needs of their members.
Mark Reichardt, President of the OGC, explained, "The OGC is pleased to have the opportunity to work in partnership with the WfMC to help make geospatial information and processing a more integral part of workflow and business process management (BPM)."
Anticipated activities include: coordination between OGC and WfMC working groups and committees; involvement in interoperability testbeds, pilot initiatives and experiments; and outreach.
“The WfMC is excited for this partnership between the two respective industry leaders,” explained Nathaniel Palmer, Executive Director of the Workflow Management Coalition. “It took strong interoperable standards to deliver the geo-enabled Web that is critical to all business today. The next step is a ‘flow-enabled web’ to support both mass market and enterprise processes. The OGC’s track record of managing large-scale, user-focused activities and the WfMC’s leadership in process and workflow are well matched for success in this endeavor.”
The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 365 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org. |
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August 2007 WfMC Newsletter
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Workflow Management Coalition Leader Addresses Role of Business Process Standards
July 24, 2007 - Keith Swenson, Technical Committee Chairman of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), addressed an audience over 150 business process professionals on the "BPM Standards Organizations" panel, at the BPM Think Tank organized by OMG. |
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Cordys Appoints BPM Industry Luminary Jon Pyke as Chief Strategy Officer
July 23, 2007 - Cordys, a leading Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) provider, today announced the appointment of Jon Pyke as Chief Strategy Officer. Pyke is a globally recognized Business Process Management (BPM) pioneer and luminary. He was formerly Chief Technology Officer for Staffware, acquired by Tibco, and is a co-founder and chairman of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), a global organization devoted to the advancement of workflow and BPM standards and awareness
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WfMC Fellow Dr. Michael zur Muehlen Debuts Research on BPM.com
July 3, 2007 - Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology where he directs the SAP/IDS Scheer Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation, Dr. Michael zur Muehlen publishes "Asking the Wrong Questions: Process Discovery on a Rainy Day," an insightful paper on the challenges and strategies for business process discovery.
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People, Who Needs BPEL?
June 28, 2007 - Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Chairman Jon Pyke explores the implications, opportunities and limitations for the newly proposed BPEL4People specification. Examined are the role of complimentary and competing standards in the workflow and BPM software sector. |
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XPDL - The Silent Workhorse of BPM
April 25, 2007 - Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Chairman Jon Pyke addresses the myths and misunderstandings surrouding business process management standards; explains the history and role of XPDL. |
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The BPM Standards Landscape
March 2007 - Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Executive Director Nathaniel Palmer discusses "What You Should Care About and Why" in the BPM standards landscape. Discussed are XPDL, BPMN, BPEL, Wf-XML and others.
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Workflow Management Coalition to Hold International Business Process Management Seminar
January 30, 2007 – The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), the premiere global standards organization for Business Process Management (BPM) automation, today announced that a one-day seminar discussing the latest developments in BPM’s core standards and protocols will be held February 5, 2007 at the Biltmore Hotel and Suites in Santa Clara, CA. The February 5th seminar follows a successful international tour in 2006, held in locations including Germany, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan. The seminar will feature top BPM experts - including the authors and architects of the most-implemented business process standards. |
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Understanding the BPMN-XPDL-BPEL Value Chain
December 2006 - Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Executive Director Nathaniel Palmer explores the linkages or "value chain" between BPMN, XPDL, and BPEL. Often misunderstood as competitive, this article discusses the synergies and overlap between the related process standards.
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Local Chapters of WfMC Host Audience of Hundreds for BPM & Workflow Standards Tour
November 2006 - Key members of the international Business Process Management (BPM) standards community came together at a series of workshops held in Tokyo, Taipei and Singapore presented by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). The Asia Tour was sponsored by WfMC members TIBCO and Fujitsu, and hosted by local members and chapter leaders NEC Soft and BPMF-Japan, Flowring, and Bizmann. More than 500 participants listened to industry experts discuss a wide range of subjects relevant to BPM and Workflow systems. Topics included everything from general overviews of the BPM market, to specific detailed presentations regarding industry standards. Presenters included: Robert Shapiro, Chair of WfMC Interface 1 (XPDL); Keith Swenson, WfMC Technical Committee Chairman; Dr Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology; Justin Brunt, WfMC Vice Chairman; Ken Mei, Director of Technical Marketing, Global 360; Dr Pallab Saha, Project Specialist, ISS-National University of Singapore; and Ken Loke, WfMC Chairperson for Singapore and Malaysia; and Yoshihisa Sadakane, WfMC Vice Chairman, Panpacific Region. |
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WfMC
Selects Transformation+Innovation For General Management and Secretarial
Duties
October 1, 2006 - The Workflow Management Coalition
(WfMC) announced that it has selected Massachusetts-based
Transformation+Innovation to provide general management and
secretariat services to the international organization. Founded
in August, 1993, the WfMC is a non-profit, international organization
of workflow vendors, users, analysts as well as university
and research groups. The Coalition's mission is to promote
and develop the use of workflow through the establishment
of standards for software terminology, interoperability and
connectivity between workflow products. Consisting of over
300 members worldwide, the Coalition is the primary standards
body for this significant software market. As explained by
Transformation+Innovation founder and President Nathaniel
Palmer, "The WfMC has been the gold standard for the business
process industry for well over a decade, and remains one of
the most respect bodies of process thought leadership." |
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WfMC
Announces David Hollingsworth as 2006 Recipient of Manheim Award for Significant
Contributions in the Field of Workflow
September 27, 2006 - Mainz, Germany. The Workflow Management
Coalition (WfMC) announced here today that David Hollingsworth
has been selected as the 2006 recipient of the prestigious
Marvin L Manheim Award. David has been a leading contributor
to industry initiatives on workflow architecture and standards
since the early 1990s. He was responsible for much of the
industry founding architecture work, authoring the Workflow
Reference Model, which defined the framework for standards
development for the industry. He has contributed to all WfMC
working groups, as well as numerous other industry initiatives
and continues to encourage the development and adoption of
open standards. As a senior solution architect with Fujitsu
Services David continues to apply this knowledge to complex,
large scale system integration projects.
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WfMC
Announces Robert Shapiro as 2005 Recipient of Manheim Award for Significant
Contributions in the Field of Workflow
October 13, 2005. Seoul, Korea. The Workflow Management Coalition
(WfMC) announced here today that Robert Shapiro has been selected
as the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Marvin L Manheim
Award. Robert Shapiro was recognized for his workflow design
innovation and long-standing contributions to industry workflow
standards. Robert has been a driving force in the creation
and promotion of graphical techniques for modeling, analyzing
and simulating complex systems. As founder and CEO of Meta
Software Corporation, he directed the implementation of a
unique suite of graphical modeling and optimization tools
for enterprise wide business process improvement. As a participant
in the Workflow Management Coalition and chair of the working
group on process definition interchange, he plays a critical
role in the development of international standards for workflow
and business process management.
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2005
Winners Announced for Excellence in BPM & Workflow Global Awards
October 13, 2005 – Seoul, Korea. The Workflow Management Coalition
(WfMC) and the Workflow And Reengineering International Association
(WARIA) announced here today the names of the Gold and Silver
winners for the 2005 Global Excellence Awards for innovation
and excellence in Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow
implementations.
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2005
Finalists Announced for Excellence in BPM & Workflow Global Awards
September 27, 2005 – The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
and the Workflow And Reengineering International Association
(WARIA) are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2005
Global Excellence Awards for innovation and excellence in
Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow implementations.
These prestigious awards are used to recognize organizations
that have demonstrably excelled in implementing innovative
solutions to meet strategic business objectives. |
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