For all you who want to learn new skills to avoid being outsourced to India (which is itself being outsourced to China and the Phillipenes amd Bulgaria, and who will eventually be outsourced to the kingdom of Mustang in the Himalayas, and the Kalahari Bush peoples 🙂
Anyway all the ‘trendy’ reports say Business Analysts will be in great demand, and much as I hate trendy reports, it sounds likely, as these are practical people who are engaged in defining how the biz works, not just coding it into applications.
Tibco, the big SOA vendor, has free ‘business studio’ for modeling and simulation studio available for download. (tibco.com of course)
and I found another one that 40,000 people have downloaded, savvion.com, 66 megs
Both require you fill out a bit about yourself. You can just tell the salesperson who calls you are interested in finding out more for your self.
1/3: found another one!, UML 2.1 free modeler from telelogic for application diagrams (www.ilogix.com)
Dang! found yet another, intalio.com has one that is open source BPMS. They make money off support. I’m sure this would make Apotheon very happy. 88 megs; 110 megs for server.
Interesting article about these companies on intelligententerprise.com, editors choice awards.
Would anyone like to do an article about the products?
Anyone using these yet? Would like to hear how they work and what you think of them. I’m tempted to start using these instead of flow charts for some things that it would be appropriate for, such as showing salesmen how some processes work, where a flow chart might be too technical.
