Tweet SOA strategy and execution is failing in many companies Kaushal Mashruwala on why SOA needs BPM: “If the world’s biggest-budgeted software vendors really want to have sponsors in both IT and business units, and keep selling software, they need to elevate the role BPM plays in their suites.” (tags: bpm soa)
TweetThere’s something funny about chatting via IM with someone as you’re listening to them give a public webinar, even when you do know that the presentation is pre-recorded — I was on Skype with Bruce Silver today during his webinar The Business Process Expert and the Future of BPM on ebizQ, where he was speaking [...]
Tagged BPMNTweetIt seems that some conferences still aren’t plugged into the blogosphere as a PR engine, including some from surprising quarters. I applied for a press pass to next week’s O’Reilly’s ETech back in January via the press link on their site, and after a couple of weeks received the following reply from a Maureen Jennings, [...]
Tweet links for 2008-02-22 | Smart (Enough) Systems, the blog James Taylor links to his two excellent posts on BPM and BRM together (tags: bpm brm) The FASTForward Blog » Wikis versus Knowledge Management: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary Bill Ives on Wikis and KM (tags: web2.0 wikis enterprise2.0 ecm)
TweetI’ve been working on a white paper with BEA for the last couple of months, and it’s finally been released for free download. We dipped into research from the big analyst firms as well as the extensive survey data collected by BEA directly. The result: a comprehensive 36-page white paper covering how and why BPM [...]
TweetI travel a lot these days, and couldn’t do it without all of the great tools available: As I’ve written previously, if you’re applying for a Canadian passport, do yourself a huge favour and fill out the form online; that reduces the actual visit to the passport office from about 1.5 hours to about 15 [...]
Tweet LinkedIn Launches Mobile LinkedIn finally goes mobile — how long overdue is that?! (tags: productivity socialmedia) EDS’ Next Big Thing Blog: OASIS BPEL4People: Beating a Dead Horse Fred Cummins of EDS on BPEL4People: “[BPEL is] designed for programmers, and BPEL4People won’t change that.” (tags: bpel)
Tweet Make Mashups Using Your Own Data with geoXtract – ReadWriteWeb Using your own data source, which can be an Excel Spreadsheet (.xls), Access database (.mdb), or Comma-Separated Values file (.csv), geoXtract walks you through the process of creating a mashup. (tags: mashups) The FASTForward Blog » FASTforward 08 interviews with speakers, attendees, and bloggers: [...]
Tweet Wikis: ‘From Each According to His Knowledge’ Good article from IEEE Computer this month on wikis. You likely need to be an IEEE subscriber to access it. (tags: enterprise2.0 wikis)
Tweet Jesper Joergensen’s Blog: Installing AquaLogic BPM Enterprise Server on Amazon EC2 I talked to Jesper about this last week as we shared a taxi to the airport from the IDS Scheer conference; I like to think that my excitement over the idea of AquaLogic BPM on EC2 encouraged him to publish this so promptly. [...]
TweetFinal session of the conference, and I’m in the financial services breakout track to hear Lee Atkinson, SVP at iDNA, and Marc Hebert, CMO of Virtusa, discuss a real-world example of using enterprise search to build a true 360-degree customer view. They started with some background on the problems with enterprise applications and how dynamic [...]
TweetPhilip Bierhoff, Systems Manager at Proctor & Gamble, spoke about strategies to increase user adoption as business intelligence goes mainstream. P&G’s Symphony project creates “decision cockpits”: dashboards based on specific roles and corporate divisions, and including information ranging from traditional BI reports to documents to news. The underlying data landscape has moved from their first [...]
TweetGeneral sessions are done for the conference, but there’s still some interesting breakout sessions. I’ve moved to the financial services track to hear Ilkka Korkiakoski, a VP at TietoEnator (a European IT services firm) talk about the challenges for the financial services industry as it moves to real-time multichannel customer interaction. Korkiakoski was previously with [...]
TweetI sat in on the bloggers’ lunch and the great panel discussion about Enterprise 2.0 adoption challenges, featuring John Hagel, J.P. Rangaswami, Jim McGee and Bill Ives, and moderated by Paula Thornton. It’s hard to eat and type at the same time, so my notes will be brief, but a few points came shining out [...]
TweetAnd now a speaker who we’ve all been waiting for: J.P. Rangaswami, CIO of British Telecom, but likely better known for his blog about information, confused of calcutta. He spoke on the new polarization: how the customer is gaining control, and the impact on corporate IT departments. We’ve changed from the corporate IT environment of [...]
TweetJørn Ellefsen, CEO of Comperio, spoke about customer-driven innovation in search solutions. Comperio creates custom solutions based on the FAST platform, as well as providing a framework that I saw in yesterday’s session on enterprise mashups. Although they work mostly with customers in their Scandinavian home base, they’ve done some significant projects around the world. [...]
TweetTimo Teimonen of StarCut, a mobile media publisher, was up to discuss how the mobile internet is transforming. The incredible growth in mobile internet access over the past few years means that people are no longer happy with seeing full-format web pages on their small screen, but want content tailored to the smaller form factor. [...]
TweetGerry Campbell, president of search and content technologies at Reuters, spoke about how Web 2.0 has set information free from many of the content silos where it used to be entrapped, but there’s a major information overload problem since consumers need related and relevant information presented together in order to provide context. Users want more [...]
TweetSue Feldman, VP of search and digital marketplace technologies at IDC, spoke about taking the pulse of the digital marketplace. She started by defining the digital marketplace as an online gathering place of buyers and sellers, with particular relationships and dynamics between the types of participants. Users interact with 3 types of sites: gateways (a [...]
TweetSafa Rashtchy addressed us in this morning’s first session about the original six trends and impact of the user revolution, from a report that he created while with Piper Jaffray. The emergence of “communitainment”: community + communication + entertainment have collided together and are impacting each other’s growth, generating a new type of activity on [...]
