First shot at Intalio's BPMS
Well, here I go.
Today I officially start preparing for my upcoming internship on the 18th of June. I’m supposed to help out in marketing Intalio’s Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), but quite frankly I do not know much about what it is, so I must read up on it. My school has not taught me anything about it, even though I am 1 year away from an MBA, maybe there is something to do here.
Here’s one good article on BPM. You’ll find out quickly that there is a horrendous amount of acronyms in the domain, making it hard to read and understand. Here is the wikipedia entry on Business Process Management and on Business Processes. That should get one started.
Now knowing all this, next is playing around with Intalio’s software. They have apparently two programs, Server and Designer, all there is a slew of libraries and other stuff I haven’t looked at. They provide a 10 Step instruction page with, surprise-surprise, a 10 Step instruction page. You can see they tell you to install some runtime components, but they are nowhere to be found. A repository search yields no match. I can only guess it is the Server package.
So now I download and install the Designer, and barely pay attention to the legal agreement, like most people do. It installs well, with one caveat : it does not ask to leave a shortcut, so I had to dig down in my hard drive and hunt for the executable. I then launch it, and see an overcompressed presentation image while the program loads. Whatever space was saved from making the image look that way is insignificant compared to the size of the program itself.
I then proceeded to install the Server, but when extracting the file I got an error. Off to download it again just in case. It would have been nice to have an md5 hash.
By the way, Intalio probably uses some Content Management System (CMS), and that, in my opinion, makes websites cluttered, poorly organized, strange and unintuitive. There’s nothing like a hand cranked User Interface (UI) tailored to the company. I have never found Corporate websites useful, and I often use Google to find what I am looking for even once inside them, rather than their search box or whatever. The site could use a facelift.
The download is finished, but the extraction gives me the same error, maybe there’s something wrong with it. Anyway, its late and I’ve got a lot to do tomorrow, so that’s it for today folks.