howardgr’s bookmarks tagged with “bloggingtips” on del.icio.us Howard Greenstein growing collection of blogging tips, part of a syllabus for his Intro to Social Media class at NYU (tags: blogging)
I booked my travel for the Gartner BPM conference on September 16-19 in Orlando: I have a bad habit of forgetting to do that until late, then finding that the airfare is $$$ and I’ve missed all the hotel rooms, so thought that I’d do it early this time. I’ll be live-blogging from the conference [...]
Google Transit Public transit trip planning in various US locations and all of Japan. I want this for Toronto! Funny that the California sites include Orange County which (based on my 1-1/2 years living there) has really bad transit coverage, but not San Francisco. (tags: travel)
I had a chance to talk to Kevin Hakman of TIBCO late last week about their Ajax Challenge (Kevin co-founded General Interface, which was acquired by TIBCO a couple of years back), the goal of which is to build the world’s largest mashup. You have to use General Interface to build it, but more interestingly, [...]
Tagged ESB, mashupsI was having a conversation late last week with a SaaS BI vendor about how organizations get data into their online data warehouse (ftp seems to be the most popular method), when it struck me: why couldn’t they use an RSS feed from a transactional system to feed data into the data warehouse for BI [...]
I’m just getting to the last of the BPM Think Tank sessions, namely, the roundtables and one lunch session that I had documented on paper. The three sessions of roundtables spanned Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons, and were some of the best conversations that I had at the conference. I’ll cover each of the ones that I attended [...]
Tagged BPMN, BPMThinkTankDemoCampToronto14 – Event Hosted by Eventbrite The next DemoCamp in Toronto, September 17th. Demos not yet decided, but they’re almost always interesting. Free. (tags: torcamp)
ModelDriven.org – BPDM The business process definition metamodel (BPDM) specification on modeldriven.org, including links to the HTML version of the spec. (tags: bpmn bpdm) Tucows Services » Tucows Developer Blog > Blog Archive » Getting Started with Facebook Application Development Joey deVilla puts down the accordian and gives us a tutorial on how to write [...]
We’re starting to wind down a bit, and many of the east coast people have taken off already to avoid the red-eye flight home so the audience is getting a bit sparse. Those of us with presentations this afternoon, however, are still here. First after lunch is a panel on BPM & SOA, and how [...]
Tagged BPMThinkTankNext up was a panel of BPM vendors: Phil Gilbert (Lombardi), Angel Diaz (IBM), Marco ten Vanholt (SAP BPX), Burley Kawasaki (Microsoft), Scott Byrnes (Handysoft) and David Shaffer (Oracle). Derek Miers moderated, and posed a series of questions to the panelists rather than having the panelists do short presentations as we saw on previous panels [...]
Tagged BPMThinkTankDay 3 opened with a keynote from Randy Heffner of Forrester on BPM in the world of digital business architecture. He spoke about the old model of enterprise applications, which was that of functional silos with point-to-point integration between them, and how that’s changing to a process-centric model: not just using BPM to connect up [...]
Tagged BPMThinkTankI woke up this morning with the thought that there was an easier way to access the BPM Events calendar that I created yesterday, so I created this page here on Column 2 that embeds the calendar. You can always find it using the “BPM Events” link under the Pages section at the top of [...]
Must not be present to win?
Tagged BPMThinkTankI’ve heard from a few people lately about how hard it is to schedule BPM events since there’s so many calendar conflicts. I joked yesterday that we needed a global Google calendar to which everyone can add their events, and today I’m not laughing, I’m creating it. Click here to subscribe to the calendar in [...]
Jim Rudden of Lombardi gave the first presentation after lunch. Like the BEA presentation yesterday, Lombardi gets this short timeslot since they’re a platinum sponsor of the event, and Jim’s topic was on modelling your business, not just your process. I’ve seen a similar presentation, likely in a Lombardi webinar, with the three key areas [...]
Tagged BPMThinkTankITtoolbox/PJA Social Media Index Very interesting study on how IT decision-makers use social media and user-generated content in their purchasing decisions. One of the top 10 findings: user-generated content (including blogs) is the top-ranked trusted source, more than paid analysts. (tags: socialmedia)
We had two case studies about BPM projects in the real world, the first of which was Lance Gibbs talking about AFLAC using BPM in their administrative services. They started with their invoice reconciliation process, since they dealt with over 500,000 remittances each month, and 30% of them didn’t match the invoice so couldn’t be [...]
Tagged BPMThinkTankNext was a panel on business process frameworks with representative from various framework standards Tom Mercer (VRM from the Value Chain Group), Lloyd Chumbley (ACORD), Philippe de Smedt (OMG Finance Domain) and Paul Harmon (covering SCOR and eTOM, and also moderating). Each panelist spoke briefly about the mission of their organization and framework: VRM (Value Reference [...]
Tagged BPMThinkTankReplacing the scheduled Bill Curtis (who had to cancel due to a family emergency), Chief Process Officer at McAfee, John Alden of Capability Measurement (which he co-founded with Curtis) gave the second day keynote on the role of the Chief Process Officer in business process improvement. Responsibilities of the CPO: Champion enterprise process discipline: quantify [...]
Tagged BPMM, BPMThinkTankThe final session of the day was a panel with representatives from four standards organizations: Fred Cummins of OMG (BPMN, BPDM), Charlton Barreto of W3C, Keith Swenson of WfMC (XPDL) and John Evdemon of OASIS (BPEL), moderated by Fred Waskiewicz of OMG. The first question was on the focus or mission of each organization: OMG [...]
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