Being there (Day 1)

Due to the tropical storm Sandy, we were not able to come to the Building Business Capabilities Conference 2012 in Fort Lauderdale. Our BPM Lab will be open nevertheless: we have decided to come up with an innovative solution to our transportation problem. On the first day of the BBC Conference, from 9:00 am till 18:30 EST, you can watch us build a model-driven business application based on your input. Our colleague Dan Latham is on-site at booth 102 and will help us collect your ideas and requirements.

Join Dan at booth 102 or connect to us from your notebook, iPad, iPhone or Android device on join.me/beinformed. Use the internet call option to join the discussion.

So what are we going to do? Remember our wine tasting event last year? During the wine tasting I was collecting your input about taste, smell and color and made a classification tool on the fly to help you decide what wine would have the best fit with your personal preferences.

The basis for this little application consists of a number of taxonomies, connected to each other. To create the application, not a single line of code was required. Everything was done by modeling.
From a single set of models Be Informed generated a knowledge base, a classification and an index, all sharing the same models and underlying content.
At the Building Business Capabilities Conference 2012 we are going to take things a bit further. Our goal is to create a complete model-driven business application within 2 days.
Dan Latham from Be Informed will be at booth 102 and is happy to explain you everything about our product. He can also connect you with our Be Informed BPM Lab in the Netherlands through a live connection, so you still get the chance to experience the thrill of live BPM modeling and deliver your input for the model driven business application that we are creating.

You can follow live our modeling progress during the two days of the conference- starting October 30, 2012 - from 9:00 am EST until 6:30 PM EST at booth 102 and on join.me/beinformed.

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