Intalio, Leader in Open Source BPMS

ebizQ Webinar: Process-Driven Data Integration

I just found out about this webinar coming up today:

Guaranteeing Agility in SOA and BPM with Process-Driven Data Integration

Date: December 09, 2008

Time: 12:00 pm US Eastern

It is not too late to get in. The webinar will be presented by Ash Parikh from Informatica, and Madan Sheina, Principal Analyst at Ovum. The whole process-driven data integration concept is definitely gaining currency in the marketplace. Informatica and Intalio joined forces a while back to bring BPM and data integration together. Since then we have added our voices to the conversation. We believe this is an important issue where a lot of education is needed to get out to businesses. So we would encourage you to attend.

Feedback from France

We recently spotted interest about Intalio in French. Chris Doudet is sharing his experience on our training and his first processes, while at Octo they evaluate BPMN and apparently like our vision (scroll down to the comments for the discussion).

Being French myself I am very pleased to see interest pick up next to home !

Business Technology Interview: Arnaud Blandin

Business Technology, the German magazine for, well, technology in business, featured an interview with Arnaud Blandin, Intalio’s Director of Business Development. My German isn’t quite that good so I had to read a translated version (using Babelfish).

In the interview Arnaud talks about how “Open Source permitted it to Intalio to place the conventional sales model on the head” (you have to love automatic translation engines). The ability for Open Source to provide a pay-as-you-go approach to building your BPM project, what we refer to as COSMO (commercial open source model) has proved to be a successful approach for us. Arnaud and BT also discussed the state of the industry today in regards to co-opetition in the Open Source world.

Meet Intalio In New York - Nov. 18

We are hosting a cocktail party at The Great Room, Renaissance Times Square Hotel in New York from 6-8pm on November 18, 2008.

Our CEO Ismael Ghalimi, will be in town so we want to extend the invitation to our friends and colleagues in the area to come join us for drinks and chat about Business Process Management. A number of visionaries in the industry mentioned they would drop by, so I think it will provide some interesting conversation. A great opportunity to talk to others who are going through the same BPM adoption path you are, or have innovated and are willing to share their recipe for success.

If you are interested, let me know either by email jos@intalio.com or by phone (203) 791-0182.

Looking foward to seeing you there.

Bino Jos
Process Expert, Intalio.

Renaissance Time Square Hotel

Two Times Square, 714 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY 10036

Process Expert (Singapore)

Position

Job Title: Process Expert
Opening Date: Now
Location: Singapore

Job Description

This is a high-potential opportunity to help grow a global company that is revolutionizing the enterprise software industry. Intalio is the thought leader in the fast-growing Business Process Management System market, with over 20,000 registered users, a best-of-breed open source SOA/BPM stack, a marketing focus on lead generation and sales-driven culture. You’ll be working with the very latest cutting edge technologies in a company culture that encourages success through innovation coupled with hard work.

Job Responsibilities

Develop and deliver enablement services
Develop and maintain strong product line code level technical expertise
Achieve quarterly quota of subscriptions
Build and manage customer relationship
Assist customers in designing and delivering appropriate solutions
Promote customer advocacy by driving product improvements
Provide feedback to QA, Engineering and Product Management
Deliver reusable technical and sales & marketing documentation

Job Requirements

Fluent in English, Mandarin a plus
Outstanding customer services skills
Excellent written/verbal communication and phone skills
Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively
Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment
Proven willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done
Strong analytical skills
Excellent software architecture skills
Experience and working knowledge in Java, J2EE, XML, XML Schema, XSLT
Good understanding of Business Process Management
Knowledge of BPMN and BPEL is a plus
Deep understanding of Web Services
Project management/problem management capabilities are a plus
Bachelor’s Degree from a 4-Year University
Minimum 2 years of experience in delivering integration services
Technical pre-sales experience is a plus
Travel up to 100% worldwide

Application

To apply for this position, please send an email to careers@intalio.com.

About Intalio

Intalio is the leading Open Source BPMS vendor. Intalio|BPMS empowers organizations of all sizes to design, deploy, and optimize the most complex business processes, on top of any application and middleware system, without having to write any code. Intalio|BPMS is the only Open Source BPMS to natively support the BPMN, BPEL and BPEL4People standards.

Come to See Us at ApacheCon in New Orleans

A big part of the Intalio server team, which includes several Apache ODE committers, will be next week in New Orleans at ApacheCon US (November 3rd to 7th). If you’re planning to attend ApacheCon or just happen to be in the area during that period, feel free to contact me and we’ll arrange a meet-up. See you there!

Journal of Digital Asset Management Interviews Ismael Ghalimi

Michael Moon, of the Journal of Digital Asset Management, and Intalio CEO Ismael Ghalimi had an interesting conversation the other day. And lucky for us;) Michael is the editor in chief and was able to capture the discussion for his magazine. SaaS 2.0 onward! is available in the October edition of the magazine.

Ismael and Michael took the long view, going back into history of BPM but also peering into the crystal ball to see what the future holds. Ismael discusses how Software-as-a-Service acts as both a disruptive technology and an enabling ecosystem. The two also got into the role of process orchestration in digital supply chains. Definitely a wide ranging article.

Twittering

We now twitter our blog posts!

Please feel free to follow Intalio.

Intalio presentation at the Open Source Series Workshop 2008

Adeel Javeed presented Intalio at the Open Source Series Workshop 2008.

He made the slides available on Slideshare. Don’t hesitate to give some feedback!

Intalio JapanCon 2008: Intalio Server Overview

Alex Boisvert, Intalio’s Product Development Director, presented an overview of the Intalio Server at Intalio JapanCon 2008.

Process Engine

Intalio uses Apache Ode as the BPEL engine. This is the leading BPEL engine. It uses only open standards, uses a fully transactional engine, and is embeddable. Processes are tied to memory. There are customers with 200,000+ processes running.

Ode is very scalable. It uses multi-threading and can be clustered. Clustering supports automatic failover. In a clustered environment the database is used as a system of reference. Only minimal node synchronization is required.

Performance depends on:

Message bus
Process design
Process persistance
Event persistance
Hardware software configuration

Usually the database is the bottleneck. Intalio recommends the use of the best database possible to achieve best performance.

Typical server performance on standard server hardware.is 1 million transaction per day on a database persistant server. Non-persistant servers get 10 million transactions a day.

Process management is handled from the bpms console. On top of that there are process query and debug APIs. Process versioning is done as processes are deployed. By default the new version of a process replaces an older version. It is also possible to have custom versioning by using the server API, to control process lifecycle.
Human Workflow

The workflow components are a set of components that allow you to define your own workflow rules. There are many choices for user interace creation including XForms (Orbeon), TIBCO GI, Ruby etc.

The available task types for workflow are;

Initiate Process
People Task
Notifications

Provides a full security framework, providing typically AAA functionality, by default the security framework is integrated with LDAP.
Server Roadmap and Research

Intalio currently has many features in development. Here are a few:
Simple BPEL - simPEL

Simple BPEL provide an alternative to using visual design tools. It has a simpler syntax. Developers do not need to create BPEL directly. SimpEL is a scripting dialog of BPEL, programmer friendly with a syntax similar to JavaScript. You can mix SimPEL with Java, PHP, Ruby etc.

You could generate BPMN diagrams from SimPEL.

RESTful BPEL

Provides a simpler method of using web services, such as those provided by Amazon, google, salesforce.com etc. Provides the ability to exposing processes as resources.

TAS3

Trsusted Architecture for shared secuirty, a European Union project on how to deal with trust and secuirty, details are available at www.tas3.eu

Feeds

Adding support for BPEL to distribute data on an internet-scale.

Native XQuery Support

Providing a more powerful data manuiplation lanaguge.

Publish-Subscribe

Popular architecture for event distribution, decouple publishers from consumers.

Singleshot

Experimental task manager for process managemen, being developed in Ruby on rails.

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