Correspondence: Ismael Ghalimi, Intalio, 644 Emerson Street, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA. Tel: +1 650 596 1800; E-mail: ismael@intalio.com

¹is a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, creator of BPMI.org, initiator of the BPM 2.0 movement, producer of the Office 2.0 Conference and designer of the Redux Model 1. Ismael is an adviser to several high-tech companies, including 3TERA, AdventNet (a.k.a. Zoho), Diigo, EchoSign, EveryTrail, G.ho.st, Move & Play and Open IT Works.

Abstract

Ismael Ghalimi co-founded Intalio back in 1999. Since then Intalio has become the leader in open source business process management (BPM). In this interview with Ismael, Michael Moon discusses the history of BPM and some of the problems in the industry. They also talk about how software-as-a-service acts as both a disruptive technology and an enabling ecosystem. Michael asks Ismael about the role of federated work-management dashboards and process orchestration for digital supply chains. They wind up by summarizing critical factors for putting together a taskforce for large BPM projects.