About
This blog is an attempt to explore my own understanding of the Intalio Platform. I’m an outsider, but I feel it’s important to sort of documentation for Intalio, a “bitácora” or recording of important aspects of this BPM platform. In a more personal level, I just want to have source of souvenirs for the future, a drain for my sufferings 
Un testimonio de mi dolor
Who am I? An engineer with almost 27 years programming computers and slowly moving to a more architectural and strategic player.
As descendant of entrepreneurs, I’ve always seen the importance to integrate the computerized solutions in companies. Having worked and led seminars in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Switzerland (this is not Europe! :-> ) mainly in the area of dedicated, real-time, multithreaded, distributed systems as well as software for management, I found that the gap among Biz and IT was still there and required a new way to deal with it.
In order to fill it, I had the crazy idea of pursuing a Ph.D. in Enterprise Architecture, in the group of Alain Wegmann at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). SEAM is our method, and we believe that there is a need for tools like Intalio that allow creating process-models of the enterprise.
After spreading the word about Intalio in the University and to my professional network, I feel confident to share my knowledge and also my ignorance via a blog.
Besides developing, I’ve been in charge of training ( kind-of “forming” in Spanish), informing, reforming and even deforming. In this case, my objective is transforming.
Programmers -> Integrators
Business Analysts–> Process Modelers
Architects -> Enterprise Architects
Innocent people –> Guilty ones
The most important factor concerning the acceptation of a technological product like Intalio is the learning curve: if it’s too steep, the complexity will make most people not to choose it; people won’t perceive the nice features behind all the chaos.
Via this blog, I want to apply the KISS principle, and address the non-specialists, the people that has not played with BPEL yet, in other words, the functional/business analysts and other normal people that do not see the world as sync and async processes, predicates, and other nice stuff like that.
Is there anyone out there that can help me carry this load? Don’t run!
The blog will also be available in French and Spanish, if I find the time.
Please send me your comments.
José Diego
David Ouakil said
Dearest Diego,
Compassion to your Dolor
And thank you
for easing ours
The enterprise wide process modelled drive is both today’s and tomorrow’s solution to deal with complexity, challenging both IT and Biz.
Is unity the word?
With flexibility, and agility it’s dichotomist views from both perspectives?
Hum… Simply stated, intalio serves both in easing the task at hand!
So does your contribution
Sincerely, David