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November 18, 2005 | Comments: (0)

Managing the human side of BPM

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You can't have a process without people, right? Calendaring software vendor Meeting Maker believes that the next generation of BPM will be squarely focused on the role people play in process management.

To that end, Meeting Maker this week acquired U.K.-based PeopleCube, which makes an application that focuses on the human role in BPM. In addition, Meeting Maker is changing its name to PeopleCube and is calling this new linkage between processes and people HPM (Human Process Management).

The concept of HPM isn't new. IBM, SAP, and others, for example, right now are hammering out a specification to extend the Web Services Business Process Execution Language to address the role of people in business processes. Cutely dubbed BPEL4People, the technology is still in development.

The new PeopleCube will continue to develop and support the existing Meeting Maker calendaring and scheduling software line of products. The company also is planning to combine BPM with scheduling and calendaring technologies in an effort to gain more visibility into the people who implement and manage processes, according to PeopleCube officials.

PeopleCube's BPM offering, called ProcessCube, is an on-demand application based on Microsoft .Net. It includes an embedded BizTalk Server 2004 framework and a SharePoint Portal Server. Features of ProcessCube's BPM app include information about people's availability and skill sets, real-time analytics, and dashboards.

Posted by Cathleen Moore on November 18, 2005 05:03 PM

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