Join Active Endpoints' product manager Mike Moniz for a free webinar entitled "An Introduction to ActiveVOS BPMS" on Wednesday, August 11 at 12pm EDT / 9am PDT /  16:00 UTC. Register at http://www.activevos.com/weeklywebinar. In a brand new live demo and Q&A, Mike will demonstrate a new AJAX-based, services-enabled forms designer, a BPMN 2.0 modeler and other features in ActiveVOS 7. Learn how standards such as BPMN, BPEL and WS-HumanTask play a role in BPM and SOA application development.

WSO2 kicked its Carbon 3.0 Apache-based middleware platform up a notch today with the announcement of five new releases that take advantage of Carbon 3.0’s process-oriented components and building blocks for cloud computing. Among the new offerings from the Mountain View, Calif. company
are Business Process Server (BPS) 2.0, Data Services Server (DSS) 2.5,
Business Activity Monitor (BAM) 1.1, Gadget Server 1.1, and Mashup
Server 2.1.

Join Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley tomorrow, August 3, for his
weekly technical talk CTO Tuesdays at 12pm EDT / 9am PDT / 16:00 UTC.

Join Active Endpoints tomorrow, July 22, for "BPM Summer Camp," a free miniseries of webinars featuring noted industry analyst, blogger and consultant Sandy Kemsley and Active Endpoints CTO Michael Rowley.  BPM Summer Camp explores how business process managent changes the dynamic between IT and business users.  Register at http://www.bpmsummercamp.com/. 

BPEL is evolving into a key standard for describing both human and computer processes. It was originally conceived by the OASIS Web standards industry group as a language for specifying interactions with Web services. In order to manage human processes, organizations had to turn to other tools built on top of the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) developed by the Object Management Group. Both of these efforts have converged to some extent with the release of BPMN 2.0, which defines BPEL as an underlying format for storing information.