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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Can Lead to Great Improvements in Company Alliance and Partnership Results

By: Bill Davidson, President and CEO, AllianceAnalytics

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has caused big changes in big business with a hefty price tag. Not only must publicly traded companies document and comply with the financial reporting and internal audit control requirements of the Act, they must also continuously attest, measure and document changes of the related processes to ensure continued compliance.

The challenge of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements inside of a company is notably a time-consuming, costly and arduous task. The good news is that the internal control systems that companies are building will

Business and IT Alignment: Is it for real?

Contributed by:

Dr. Setrag Khoshafian , Principal and Chief Scientist, Khosh Consulting

By: Dr. Setrag Khoshafian, VP of BPM Technology, Pegasystems Inc.

BPM is touted as the technology that will finally bring business and IT together. Not that we haven’t tried to do this before. For instance, many people thought object orientation would do the trick since it tried to model the real world as closely as possible. Did it deliver? To a certain extent, but not quite. Primarily, it ended up as a productivity tool and paradigm for IT (with sometimes questionable success), not the ‘be all’ and ‘end all’ for modeling and executing business requirements.

Solving the Business/IT Alignment

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David Heidt, Business Analysis, Practice Leader, Enterprise Agility

By: David Heidt, Managing Partner, Enterprise Agility

David Heidt, a Managing Partner at Enterprise Agility, works with Fortune 1000 clients in the areas of business process analysis, requirements management, iterative development and implementation of enterprise solutions using model-driven development. Heidt is also President of the Chicago Chapter of The Association of Business Process Management Professionals.

You Need BPMS to do BPM

By: Brett Champlin, President & Founder, ABPMP.org

This interview originally appeared in the members only BPM Strategies Magazine. Join today to receive your own copy.

"To do good work, one must first have good tools." - Chinese proverb

The acronym BPM means business process management.

The Human Focus of Business Processes and Systems

Contributed by:

Ken Orr, Founder & Chief Scientist, The Ken Orr Institute

By: Stan K. Tucker, Business Process Scientist and Owner, Business Process Science and Services

Strategic Business Plans and end-to-end Business Processes are important.

Understanding Business Data: The Key to Business Rule Extraction

Contributed by:

William Ulrich, President, TSG, Inc.

By: William Ulrich, President, Tactical Strategy Group, Inc.

Large-scale information systems are impacted in a variety of ways as organizations retool business processes and undergo related transformations. Whether migrating, redesigning, consolidating or replacing existing systems, analysts need to gain a better understanding of underlying systems functionality.

BPM and Business Rules Technology Provide A New Paradigm for Business and IT

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Neal McWhorter, President, Strategic Value Partners

By: Neal McWhorter, Chief Architect, Enterprise Agility

In many organizations today there exists a communication gap between the business community and the IT organization that is so commonplace that its existence is virtually taken for granted. This gap exacts a heavy toll on an organization by preventing business domain experts from knowing how their business is really working.

Business Value of Process Standards

By: Jeanne Baker, Director and Chair, BPMI.org

If you don't have the time to listen to this issue's Featured Archive, this article serves as an Executive Summary of the presentation, "Business Value of Process Standards" by Jeanne Baker, Director and Chair of BPMI.org and Sterling Commerce. Baker discusses the emerging PBM standards, which will help companies of all sizes benefit from BPM by identifying new opportunities for growth and competitive advantage.

BPMS Watch: Selecting A BPMS

By: Bruce Silver, Principal, Bruce Silver Associates

Monthly Column by Bruce Silver, Independent BPMS Industry Analyst

Service-Oriented Architecture Implementations 'Flattens the World'

By: Velan Thilirajah, Founder and Chief Executive Innovator, EAI Technologies

Thomas L. Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, provides several helpful insights into current business and technology environments. Some of these insights bear directly on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) world, particularly with regard to how services can be accessed and used regardless of geography or technological origin.

In the non-SOA world, applications and architectures are designed with a single or limited use.