Today Meir Levi from Interfacing visited SYSLAB. Meir introduced the framework EPC (Enterprise Process Center) developed by Interfacing. EPC offers efficient design, quality documentation and effective change management that are the foundation of any BPM initiative. EPC is “A repository based business process modeling tool ideal for large scale
deployment. The EPC also includes a built-in document management
system, real-time web publisher, automatic e-mail notifications, full
security and resource management.” Paul Johannesson introduced the IT University and I gava a brief introduction to the Workflow Patterns Initiative and YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language). YAWL is implented in the YAWL system, which is based on SOA. (A vew of its architecture can be found here.)

Last Friday, 16 of March 2007, Patrik Astervall and Johan Dahlin from Pointer Ltd visited DSV and gave a guest lecture for the students joining the Data Warehousing unit. Patrik and Johan introduced briefly Pointer Ltd, presented a case from the industry, shared some of their experiences as developers of data warehousing solutions, and gave their view on the current and future development in the area.

Thanks Patrik and Johan for an interesting and inspiring lecture!

Trivia: Pointer Ltd (www.pointer.se) is one of the largest consultant companies in Data Warehousing in Sweden. It was started in 2000 by Hellen Wohlin and Anna Strid and has today more than 80 employees.