vincent
12-11-2008 06:26 PM
Eli Perlman of Cognizant gave a great presentation at the BPM Consortium (OMG) this week on how BPM cannot by itself solve all the health industry�s problems - it also needs to handle events and complex events to intelligently drive these processes.
To give an indication of some of the regulatory compliance problems in the industry, Eli showed what happened when he ordered some (regulated) pills from an offshore (supposedly Canadian) pharmacy: he received unmarked packets of pills from India and Greece which bore little relation to what he had ordered. Also, US Customs had ignored the lack of customs documentation and the �Drugs� stamp on the packets. One wonders if the Columbian cartels use the USPS too?
Coincidentally (to BPM+CEP, not the importing of drugs!), TIBCO made a �BPM+� announcement earlier in the week which referenced the increasing trend of combining BPM with event processing.