Thanks, Gladys, and welcome to everyone attending. I’ve worked in business process management, workflow and application integration for more than 15 years, doing everything from requirements to architecture and design to writing code, and I started blogging about BPM over three years ago on column2.com. In July of 2005 I wrote “ If you want your business rules integrated with your processes, you’re going to have to figure out how your BPM tool and rules engine will integrate, then pull your rules out of the paper procedure manuals, mainframe applications, spreadsheets and all the other places where they live, and get them into that BRMS. Easier said than done, but rest assured that rules engines are here to stay in the world of BPM”. That was in the early days of web services, and no one anticipated that you’d soon be able to just plug these together using standard interfaces, so wrote a lot of custom integration instead. Later that month in 2005, I wrote about the importance of business rules in bringing agility and compliance to business processes, and made the bold statement that “You’d have to have your head in the sand not to notice the importance of business rules in BPM”. What I’m seeing is that the link between process and rules is critical, yet is often ignored by organizations.