BPM Lessons Learned Here is another lessons learned from my world, but this time the focus is BPM, not SOA. I have mentioned many times how we sold the business on BPM and SOA. After modeling the future state processes and creating a roadmap of projects based on a combination of business priority and service reuse, we took our business case to the finance department and secured funding for a number of high ROI projects. The funds secured were for procurement of BPM and SOA tools (BPMS, ESB, Data Services, etc.) and for capital labor to work on the various projects. Well, we should have funded one more thing and that is an initiative to change our culture to be process centric. Although we are providing a ton of value by automating processes, connecting legacy systems, providing visibility into the workflow, shortening the order life cycle, and leveraging operational dashboards and reporting, we are not creating processes that are as efficient as they could be. Is it a disaster?
FOLDOC - Computing Dictionary BBC NEWS Cultural past of the digital age Do books and film have a place in the modern world, asks Bill Thompson Last weekend I had the enormous privilege of seeing the 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's film of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge. Watching it on a small screen diminishes its artistry and the film can sometimes seen boring and even dull, but on the big screen with proper sound and an audience it remains a challenging, stimulating experience. The 70mm print, with each frame twice as wide as the normal 35mm film usually projected in cinemas, gives a visual clarity that really does have to be seen to be believed, and remains superior to even the highest-resolution digital displays. But the print of "2001", made for the film's re-release in the eponymous year, is already degrading, as film does. So this was probably our last chance to see the film in the format its director intended, and I'll admit to a feeling of nostalgia about it. Literary experience Of course we will adapt, as we always do.
Cygserver Cygserver is a program which is designed to run as a background service. It provides Cygwin applications with services which require security arbitration or which need to persist while no other cygwin application is running. The implemented services so far are: XSI IPC Message Queues.XSI IPC Semaphores.XSI IPC Shared Memory.Allows non-privileged users to store obfuscated passwords in the registry to be used by setuid and seteuid calls to create user tokens with network credentials. This service is used by passwd -R. Using the stored passwords in set(e)uid does not require running Cygserver. Cygserver command line options Options to Cygserver take the normal UNIX-style `-X' or `--longoption' form. The one-character options are prepended by a single dash, the long variants are prepended with two dashes. The recognized options are: -f, --config-file <file> Use <file> as configuration file instead of the default configuration line. The Cygserver configuration file
Riva Method Sektori.com - Tärkeimmät uutiset ja kommentit. Ask the Directory Services Team : Troubleshooting LDAP Over SSL Hi, James here - I am a Support Escalation Engineer in Charlotte, NC, USA. Today I would like to talk to you about troubleshooting LDAP over SSL connectivity issues. We will be covering LDAP over SSL basics, how Subject Alternate Name’s (SAN) work, configuring Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) for LDAP over SSL, and of course simple troubleshooting steps. In order to enable LDAP over SSL, the following server and client requirements must be met: The server must have a certificate stored in the local machine store that meets the following criteria: Certificate Contains the Server Authentication OID: 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 The Subject name or the first name in the SAN must match the FQDN of the host machine. For an easy way to validate whether or not the machine has a valid certificate, we can run the following command: The output will look similar to the following: Note: We can of course have multiple certificates in our certificate store. We can break down the output as follows: Example:
Phil Gilbert | Perspectives in Process I'm at the TED Conference in my annual attempt to escape the confines of making and selling software. It's a box, not a process, sometimes. And this year's lineup has pretty much exceeded expectations. This is the third day. Today we just went from 9,000 feet deep (still 4,000 feet above the deepest parts of the ocean floor) to the top of the oldest redwoods in the world. Well, I come here to keep the entirety of the world - not simply my software world - in perspective, yet this year I find myself drawn further into the web of "process" - Lombardi-style. And so I see process everywhere. The other aspect of all this that's been interesting is the number of people who talk about the closer we get to actual creative process, the closer we get to simplicity. At Lombardi, we believe process is the story. At many companies, their mythology, their culture, has become stale. Ironically, then, the result of informal process is formal communication ("knowledge is power" syndrome).
Setting up a SFTP Server on Windows I recently had to create an SFTP server on our work development system, and after doing a fair bit of Googling on the topic found a good solution. The solution is a combination of research done at differnt sites. It is this solution that I am sharing in hopes that it will help someone else. This tutorial will help you turn your Windows based system into a SecureFTP server. Background Secure Shell (SSH) is a program that lets you log into another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote machine, and to move files from one machine to another. You may have noticed that many webhosts allow ssh access. To take this one step further, you can also turn your Windows PC into a Secure FTP (SFTP) server. Installing SSH on Windows Most UNIX based systems (Linux and OSX) come with SSH preinstalled, so connecting to a remote host is very easy. Your first step will be to download the Binary Installer Release from SSHWindows. Configure the SSH Server You must first create a group file.
Q&A: Gartner's Janelle Hill on the Future of BPM, SOA a The drive toward model-driven application composition has Gartner considering two emerging concepts: Business Process Platforms and Integrated Composition Environments. Janelle Hill, a Gartner research vice president and lead analyst in the business process management arena, discusses the trends and implications for technology vendors and end-user organizations.You say Gartner has yet to make final decisions about the reports it will publish in 2008, but you also acknowledge that you're considering new concepts that could supplant the current BPMS (business process management suites) Magic Quadrant. Why consider a change? What we're sensing is that the market is in transition, but we don't know whether that's to the broader concept of a Business Process Platform (BPP) or what we call an Integrated Composition Environment (ICE). What, exactly, is a business process platform? That sounds like services-oriented infrastructure and composite applications. Not necessarily. 1 of 2 More Insights
BPM HOJE The Seven Fallacies of Business Process Execution After 8+ years of intense research, the software industry and its customers are hitting a wall. The vision defined by BPM startups in the dotcom era has not materialized yet: we are still far from having the ability to use the business process models designed by business analysts to create complete executable solutions (even with minimal interventions from developers). The need for process driven application models is real: Business Process Improvement initiatives are humming and running everywhere in G2000 companies, but despite such a strong need to continuously improve processes, the BPM market still remains marginal in 2007 (compared to what it could be). So what happened? Last week, Bruce Silver asked the critical question of "Roundtripping revisited". I have been working at this problem since 1997 and I have written in 2002, two articles(1,2) which have been both referenced in the OMG BPMN 1.0 specification. BPMN is a 300+ pages specification. Let's spend some time on this one.