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 Next best thing to hands on experience Jun 27, 2008
Throughout my professional life I have gained my best understanding of business principals through hands on experience with someone who has done the work before. Reading this book felt similar to such an experience.
Tom Debevoise takes realistic business goals and explains in detail how using Business Process Management and Business Rules can be used to acheive those goals. The book focuses on reaching business goals utilizing many skills relevant to both systems architects and business analysts. While some evangelists of the BPM discipline may focus only on effective use of Business Process Modeling Notation, Tom also shows what other IT tools and disciplines are still relevant for business success.
This is an excellent book for those preparing to consult in the Business Process Management space.
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 Awfully written May 22, 2008
I'm sorry, perhaps I'm missing the nuggets of gold other reviwers claim to have found but I simply could not finish this. It is a complete mess of information in my opinion. Sections ramble on and continuity is completely non-existent. The level of gibberish is also extremely high in places. Take this example:
"A .NET component is an Internet service that customers access from a variety of manners including Web browsers and spreadsheets. BPM and Business Rules software enables the publication of these Web services. By publishing the Web service, your customers and trading partners easily incoporate them into your Internet services. This is know as exposing the Web service to the public." (p22)
This paragraph offers nothing to either the business or IT ends of the potential audience for this book and, in my opinion, is representative of the book as a whole.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
BPM rules with clarity Nov 28, 2007
Not only did I personally find this book complete with practical information, my IT department has as well. The review is similar to what my business is experiencing and has hit the nail on the head with the approach we need to take to steer our firm into growth mode, internally and in our market. I have recommended this book to other friends as their businesses are in a similar hold pattern as our was/is and they too have commented they found this book to be a valuable resource.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Business Intelligence May 09, 2007
The book could be an invaluable tool for designing SOA-based business intelligence. However, many typing errors exist in the text. Some statements in the book appear to contradict each other. The discussion on the business intelligence, Chapter 5, is difficult to follow. For example Figure 5.4 is very unclear. Specifically, how do the data from the dimensions in the data warehouse move from the data warehouse to the MQE? Where is the link from the data warehouse to the MQE? If the author can clean up all these issues, the book could be an excellent one for designing SOA-based business intelligence.
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starts out slow but gains value; good overview of technologies used in SOA Feb 08, 2007
I was going to stop reading after Ch 2 of this book, since it was way more than I wanted to know about bulldozers, but Chapter 3 got into some useful information and detail on how the technologies integrate. Each chapter built and finally tied it all together: how BPM, BPML, BPEL, BI are used in SOA. Good big picture overview of all the technologies role. I especially enjoyed the discussion of brokers to retrofit legacy apps.
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