Everyone talked about small, stateless independent applications or process automation, but nothing on starting with *strategic goals* and charting the most effective/efficient execution path. Still, it occurred to me that “the industry’s most influential insiders,” might have stepped back occasionally to discuss the bigger picture into which automation and DMN fall. Decision management (DMN) platforms and automation (including the ubiquitous RPA) are the current darlings of events, blog posts, white papers and, possibly most importantly, customer’s purchase lists. This year, the primary themes were around decision management as a service (DaaS), and automation as a service, and there were numerous interesting, albeit, predictable discussions on the topics. Presentations are delivered (with strict rules on slides and timing), debates are fueled and votes are tallied for leaders in a variety of BPM related areas. BPMNext is an interesting environment because it assembles thought leaders from a variety of service and software providers, as well as industry analysts, into a sort of think tank for a couple of days a year. The rooms, views and conversations were fantastic, however.Īs the product leader at iGrafx, with almost a dozen years at the company, I take opportunities to assess market needs from *outside* the walls of my office extremely seriously. And as free-flowing as the information and ideas were at the latest iteration of the show last month, I find it difficult to call any gathering that takes place at a luxury hotel in Santa Barbara particularly Bohemian. Seriously, this is how the BPMNext show organizers have described the event.
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