Enterprise Performance Management: An Executive-Level Implementation Guide

How about a BPM/CPM/EPM (let's just call it xPM) morning?

Via DMReview, Enterprise Performance Management: An Executive-Level Implementation Guide has a nice plan to follow with all of the things to think about when building a performance management system for a large company.

Also, in a bit of a gift for developers wishing to get a handle on BPEL and how all the pieces fit together, ActiveBPEL has released their BPEL engine (written in java) to the open source community. It claims to fully implement all of the BPEL spec.