Wednesday, April 26, 2006

11:10 am - 12:10 pm

Level: Intermediate

In 2005, the Object Management Group, absorbed the Business Process Modeling Initiative’s BPMN notation as a means to expand business process modeling and process execution to wider audiences. The standard is gaining wide acceptance in various communities such as application development, workflow execution and Services Oriented Architecture communities, yet data management and architects have had traditional, proven methods for decades. This presentation will discuss what the BPMN is vis a vis traditional process notations, the promise it holds for integrating various IT and business stakeholders and further what it is not designed to do from the vantage point of a data management professional.

Greg Keller brings over 12 years of experience in the development of data, application, and process modeling technologies and products. He oversees the development and execution of Embarcadero's technology strategy. Prior to joining Embarcadero, Greg served in key sales and product evangelism positions at Popkin Software for the System Architect family of products. Greg is regularly a featured panelist in data modeling and metadata management conferences, and is a regular contributor to various data modeling columns and discussion groups. Greg earned his BA from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship.