Martin Ader, Senior Consultant, Analyst

 
 
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Martin Ader created in April 1996 the company Workflow & Groupware Stratégies (W&GS) specialized in planning group techniques introduction enterprise wide. He is representing the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) in France.

Previously he was in charge of Wang European Workflow Product Marketing and represented Wang at the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) Technical Management Committee.

Martin Ader, Workflow and BPM software analyst

Martin Ader is one of the pioneers of workflow with ten years of research and development in the scope, within Bull, of two large European research projects part of ESPRIT group technique researches programs: Intelligent Workstation (IWS) on the usage of artificial intelligence to assist administrative business processes, and ITHACA (workflow and object technologies) a large project on object technology where his team developed an object oriented workflow engine prototype from which was derived the Bull workflow product FlowPATH, and integrated interpersonal communication tools developed by an Italian partner.

He has published numerous papers in international revues and conferences and directed four doctoral thesis on group technologies.

Previously he hold various positions related to Marketing and Strategies in the areas of large systems, distributed systems, transaction processing, and data bases mainly applied to finance, insurance, local government, and administrations. He published in May 1996 a book on group techniques planning inside enterprises " Management collectif de l'information ", an edition in Italian was launched in Milano July 1997.

 

Some major references

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Training sessions on Workflow, Groupware, Collaboration and Document management.

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Second and Third editions of the Workflow and Business Process Management Comparative Study, now sold in 36 countries, five continents.

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Assist SOFRES NELSON TAYLOR  in development and deployment of a Workflow production process.

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L'Oréal Production, analysis of potential workflow applications for the 14 factories worldwide, and selection of a workflow product.

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Consulting assignments for major Workflow Vendors

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L'Oréal Research, applications analysis, workflow product selection, and applications specifications.

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Comverse Network Systems (Workflow in an R&D department) (Israel), workflow application analysis and project recommendations

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EFIDIS (administrative workflow) workflow product selection for  administering a large housing asset in the social sector. 

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World Health Organization (WHO) (Workflow for projects follow-up) (Switzerland)

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Architecture for an Intranet based document management architecture for "Conseil Général du Val d'Oise" (local government)

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Design of a corparate Document Managment System for France Telecom

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Establishment of a corporate DM/Worklfow application project plan at ISICA (Insurance).

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Publication of the Workflow Comparativce Study, sold in 25 countries

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Analysis of potential groupware applications at Média Information Service (groupe Hachette).

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Analysis of a workflow application for customer services AT Bouygues Telecom.

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Impact of group techniques on corporations organizations : General study for the Mount Vernon management consulting firm.

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Management of the WfMC workflow inter-operation demonstration : management of a co-operative project between ICL, Computron, Staffware, CSE, and Wang

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Analysis of the workstation market, Member of the " Observatoire " created by Tektronix.

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Workflow on Internet offerings analysis for Documation conference.

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Comparison of 7 workflow products, for the international publication DocumentWorld.

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