Events
Learn more about Active Endpoints and how our ActiveVOS BPMS revolutionizes the creation and deployment of BPM applications.
Join us for a webinar or stop by and say hello at a
live event.
Upcoming trade shows and seminars
| Event | Dates | Location | Details |
| SHARE Boston | August 1-5 | Hynes Convention Center | Stop by booth 323 to see a live demo of how ActiveVOS BPMS and partner GT Software's Ivory® can be used together to implement BPM |
Upcoming webinars
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| CTO Tuesdays | Tuesday, August 3, 2010 There has been a lot of progress recently in the development of standards that are important to business process management. In this talk, Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley will describe the progress and status of the BPMN 2.0 effort at the OMG, the BPEL4People and WS-HumanTask standards at OASIS, the XPDL 2.2 standard in the WFMC and a variety of SCA standards at OASIS. He will also briefly describe the goals and approaches taken by these various standards efforts. Register here. |
| An Introduction to ActiveVOS | Wednesday, August 11, 2010 In this free webinar, Mike Moniz, ActiveVOS Product Manager, introduces you to ActiveVOS, the world's first all-in-one, standards-based visual orchestration system. In this lively one hour session, understand how to use ActiveVOS for BPM application development through a live demo and Q&A. Register here. |
Recorded webinars
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| CTO Tuesdays #30: SOA - from concept to SOAP opera, part 1 | Recorded: July 13, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley takes a special look at previous attempts to solve some core development problems |
| CTO Tuesdays #29: Oracle’s misguided approach to BPMN and BPEL | Recorded: June 29, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley takes apart Oracle’s claim of “unification” in BPM Suite 11g and SOA Suite 11g |
| Combining BPM and Business Intelligence for Better Business Decision-Making | Recorded: June 24, 2010 Active Endpoints Product Manager Mike Moniz and BIRT Evangelist Virgil Dodson from Actuate - The People Behind BIRT - demonstrate the power of combining ActiveVOS BPMS and BIRT together to achieve more effective business decision-making |
| CTO Tuesdays #28: Debunking the myth of conflict between BPMN and BPEL | Recorded: June 22, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley debunks the myths of these two crucial BPM standards |
| Expanding the ECM Ecosystem Using BPM | Recorded: June 18, 2010 Active Endpoints VP Marketing Alex Neihaus and Product Manager Mike Moniz show you how to achieve seamless integration between ECM and ActiveVOS BPMS using an important new standard called Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) |
| CTO Tuesdays #27: Eliminating the presentation tier | Recorded: June 17, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley discusses how a business process management suite (BPMS) can provide the infrastructure necessary to survive serious disruptions |
| Leveraging Mainframes for BPM Success | Recorded: June 10, 2010 Join Active Endpoints partner and mainframe technologists extraordinaire GT Software to see how easy and accessible including mainframe technology into your processes can be |
| BPM Summer Camp #2: How to Explain BPMN to Business Users | Recorded: June 9, 2010 Noted BPM industry analyst Sandy Kemsley and Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley present an overview of proposed subsets of BPMN 2.0 designed for specific roles, a demonstration of the ActiveVOS BPMN modeler and an interesting discussion of the future of BPMN |
| CTO Tuesdays #26: Eliminating the presentation tier | Recorded: June 8, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley discusses how WS-HumanTask, coupled with capabilities provided by JSON and AJAX make it possible to eliminate presentation tier services on application servers for worklist management and process initiation in BPMSs |
| BPM and SOA: Making the Right Connections | Recorded: May 26, 2010 Neil Ward-Dutton of MWD Advisors and Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley make a business and technology argument for linking BPM and SOA initiatives in your organization |
| CTO Tuesdays #25: BPM 411 - how a BPMS calls for help | Recorded: May 25, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley discusses BPMS alert monitors and services which can be used when the BPMS detects issues in running processes |
| BPM Summer Camp #1: Team Dynamics in BPM Projects | Recorded: May 20, 2010 Noted BPM industry analyst Sandy Kemsley and Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley take a look at the opportunities and potholes that occur when the introduction of BPM necessitates new kinds of interdepartmental interactions |
| CTO Tuesdays #24: How to be prepared for services that might go down | Recorded: May 18, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley delivers a talk on how to manage services that might be unavailable when your process is running |
| CTO Tuesdays #23: Escalation - what to do when something doesn't happen | Recorded: May 11, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley details with how escalation works in a BPMS |
| CTO Tuesdays #22: Complex correlation scenarios | Recorded: May 4, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley presents complex correlation scenarios |
| CTO Tuesdays #21: Building business processes with mainframe inclusion | Recorded: April 27, 2010 Guest presenters Rob Morris and Dusty Rivers of GT Software describe an elegant and practical way of linking everything on a mainframe to a modern BPMS like ActiveVOS |
| CTO Tuesdays #20: Using REST for business processes | Recorded: April 13, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley covers the concepts — and politics — behind REST, the representational state transfer protocol |
| CTO Tuesdays #19: Using URNs to avoid hard-coding service locations | Recorded: April 6, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley covers the history of URNs and then details how and why URNs are useful in process applications |
| CTO Tuesdays #18: Handling approvals by email in business processes | Recorded: March 30, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley covers using email for simpler workflows |
| SOA, BPM and building your "digital business" | Recorded: March 25, 2010 Featuring Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Principal Analyst Randy Heffner and Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley, this webinar explains what a digital business is and describes the technological approaches that are possible to achieving digital processes using SOA and BPM |
| CTO Tuesdays #17: How BPMSs support long-running business transactions | Recorded: March 16, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley covers BPMS support for long-running business transactions and compensation |
| CTO Tuesdays #16: The state of BPMS state: persistence for process | Recorded: March 9, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley explores what persistence of state offers process developers and BPM users |
| CTO Tuesdays #15: Using Java with business processes | Recorded: March 2, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley discusses an elegant way of bridging the world of BPEL and the Java world |
| CTO Tuesdays #14: Preventing problems through static analysis of business processes | Recorded: February 23, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley tackles bugs in BPMSs |
The State of BPMN Implementation: An Update from the Real World |
Recorded: February 18, 2010 Noted BPM blogger, industry analyst and consultant Sandy Kemsley shares her real-world experience and recommendations for how to successfully implement process modeling using BPMN 2.0. Sandy's presentation is followed by a demonstration of the BPMN 2.0 modeler in ActiveVOS. |
An Introduction to Combining BPM and ECM for Better Process Applications |
Recorded: February 11, 2010 Active Endpoints and Alfresco Software present how to achieve seamless integration between enterprise content management (ECM) and BPMS using an important new standard called Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS). Using CMIS, Alfresco ECM and ActiveVOS BPM users can combine a high-performance content repository with a model-driven BPMS to create a new generation of process applications. |
| CTO Tuesdays #13: Viewing and fixing running processes | Recorded: February 9, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley explores the ability of a BPMS to view, alter and fix running processes and demonstrates what any good BPMS should be capable of delivering to BPMS users and developers |
| Where does BPM go now? A business and technology perspective | Recorded: February 3, 2010 Senior Analyst Dennis Callaghan from The 451 Group presents his take on what the recent M&A activity means from a business and strategy perspective. This is coupled with a demonstration of the ActiveVOS BPMS, which is used to illustrate what is possible in a pure-play BPMS today |
| CTO Tuesdays #12: ECM and BPMS working together | Recorded: February 2, 2010 John Newton of Alfresco Software, our first guest CTO in this series, delves into how enterprise content management systems (ECM) can be combined with business process management systems (BPMS) to create compelling end-to-end business applications |
| CTO Tuesdays #11: Structured and unstructured BPMN modeling | Recorded: January 26, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley explores structured vs. unstructured BPMN modeling |
| ActiveVOS 7 Demonstration | Recorded: January 22, 2010 A live demo of ActiveVOS 7 followed by a Q&A with ActiveVOS product manager, Mike Moniz |
| CTO Tuesdays #10: Using requirements gathering tools with a BPMS | Recorded: January 19, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley presents an interesting look at the relationship — and the possibilities — of using model-based BPMSs with requirements gathering tools |
| ActiveVOS 7 and IBM Rational Requirements Composer | Recorded: January 13, 2010 Andy Berner of IBM and Michael Rowley of Active Endpoints show how business process modeling suites (BPMS) can be used with requirements gathering tools to support the entire lifecycle of a business process |
| CTO Tuesdays #9: BPM as an event source for CEP | Recorded: January 12, 2010 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley covers some basic theory of how complex event processing (CEP) works and makes the case for integrating a CEP engine directly into the BPM engine |
| CTO Tuesdays #8: An Introduction to BPMN | Recorded: December 15, 2009 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley gives what might be the most concise, “digestable” overview of BPMN 2.0 available on the Web |
| CTO Tuesdays #7: Adding looping links in BPEL | Recorded: December 8, 2009 Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley presents how it is possible to meld the “Wild West” control flow of BPMN 2.0 with the more buttoned-down control flow of BPEL |
| CTO Tuesdays #6: Diamond patterns in BPEL and BPMN | Recorded: December 1, 2009 Active Endpoints' CTO Michael Rowley discusses BPMN 2.0 and BPEL control flows and pointing out the “trap doors” in BPMN 2.0 notation |
Recorded: November 19, 2009 Forrester Research principal analyst Jeffrey Hammond and Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley overview the evolution of model-based development and demonstrate how BPMN-based systems are the next major step in software modeling |
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| CTO Tuesdays #5: Engine-managed correlation | Recorded: November 17, 2009 Active Endpoints' CTO Michael Rowley compares and contrasts two different styles of message correlation |
| CTO Tuesdays #4: Message correlation | Recorded: November 10, 2009 Active Endpoints' CTO Michael Rowley covers message correlation |
| CTO Tuesdays #3: BPMN and BPEL events | Recorded: November 3, 2009 Active Endpoints' CTO Michael Rowley presents how events are represented in BPMN 2.0 and BPEL |
| CTO Tuesdays #2: Introduction to WS-HumanTask | Recorded: October 27, 2009 Active Endpoints' CTO Michael Rowley describes how WS-HumanTask enables human activities to be seen as services in a process application |
| CTO Tuesdays #1: The BPMN Diamond | Recorded: October 20, 2009 Active Endpoints' CTO Michael Rowley explains the meaning and uses of the BPMN 2.0 diamond symbol |
| Naval Research Lab presents its SOA-based orchestration research | Recorded: July 29, 2009 Dr. James Ballas, Ph.D. and Justin Nevitt of the NRL’s Information Management and Decision Architectures Branch review the test process and decision criteria that NRL used to evaluate orchestration systems |
Collaborative BPM: Making IT and Business Successful Together |
Recorded: June 3, 2009 Noted business process management (BPM) analyst/architect Sandy Kemsley gets to the core of an on-going debate about BPM and the collaboration between IT and business |
| BPMS for Java developers | Recorded: May 7, 2009 JBoss and Active Endpoints introduces Java developers to business process management suites (BPMS) using ActiveVOS and to the JBoss SOA Platform |
| An Introduction to ActiveVOS | Recorded: April 29, 2009 Every Wednesday, we host a weekly webinar in which we introduce the ActiveVOS BPMS (business process management suite) using a fictional company called Classic Cars |
| Lifting the Hood on BPM | Recorded: January 21, 2009 ActiveVOS Product Manager Mike Moniz demonstrates how the "Vintage Old Stock" application wrritten in ActiveVOS automates a fictional classic car restoration business |
| Mainstream SOA: Next-generation application development for the rest of us |
Recorded: October 28, 2008 |
| Using Lean SOA Development Tools to Accelerate Application Delivery |
Recorded: October 22, 2008 |
| How to Achieve Your SOA Vision in the Real World |
Recorded on Thursday, July 24, 2008 |
| How to Create and Orchestrate Services for Your SOA and Web 2.0-based Applications |
Recorded: June 12, 2008 |
| Introduction to ActiveVOS for Systems Integrators | Recorded: June 5, 2008 |
Recorded: April 17, 2008 A high-level overview of BPEL and its importance in a web-services environment is presented, along with a brief discussion of the basic BPEL activities and how they relate to Java concepts |
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| What's New in ActiveVOS 5.0 | Recorded: March 13, 2008 |
| WS-BPEL Technical Overview for Developers and Architects | Recorded: March 13, 2007 |
| The Business Value of WS-BPEL for Business Analysts and Managers | Recorded: March 12, 2007 |
