Western Governors University was facing student management challenges due to a rapid growth state and was looking for a BPM solution that could incorporate human tasks with automated processes and easily integrate within their existing propriety systems.  The case study, which can be found at http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1281041821_233.html, examines the university's decision to select a model-driven BPMS over a set of non-integrated tools as the foundation for its SOA orchestration and architecture.

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/.