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In this presentation, Oliver Sharp talks about Microsoft’s business process management (BPM) system. The presentation gives a nice overview of what is BPM? what is Microsoft BPM? and what is coming to Microsoft BPM?

What kind of process do we normally see in business? The processes range from very loose to the extremely rigid. Oliver Sharp classifies the processes into four categories depending on the level of complexity and rigidity. They are Individual Ad hoc, Human Semi Structured, System Highly Structured and Fixed Process.

• Individual Ad hoc: email, instant messaging, personal task list
• Human Semi Structured: document approval, vacation approval
• System Highly Structured: expense reporting, management dashboard
• Fixed Process: extending LOB applications, supply-chain

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The Schools Interoperability Framework Association (SIFA) is a non-profit membership organization whose members include over 300 software vendors, school districts, state departments of education and other organizations active in primary and secondary (pK-12) markets. These organizations have come together to create a set of rules and definitions which enable software programs from different companies to share information. This set of platform-independent, vendor-neutral rules and definitions is called the SIF Implementation Specification. The SIF Specification makes it possible for programs within a school or district to share data without any additional programming and without requiring each vendor to learn and support the intricacies of other vendors’ applications.

The Implementation Specification defines the software implementation guidelines for SIF; it does not make any assumption of what hardware and software products need to be used to develop SIF-certified applications. Instead, it defines the requirements of architecture, communication, software components, and interfaces between them.

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