There’s one huge problem with this conference: too many interesting sessions going on simultaneously, so I’m sure that I’m missing something good no matter which I pick. I finished the morning breakout sessions with Woody Woods of SI International discussing transitioning enterprise architectures to service-oriented architectures. He started out defining SOA, using the RUP definition: [...]
I met Robert Shapiro years ago, when I worked for FileNet and he was part of the impressive brain trust at Meta Software, but now he’s with Global 360 and here to talk to us about BPM and workforce management, which focuses on using analytics, simulation tools and optimization techniques together with a workforce scheduler. [...]
I always like hearing Michael zur Muehlen presenting: he’s both knowledgeable and amusing, and I’m sure that his students at Stevens Institute of Technology must learn a lot from him. Today, he discussed what every enterprise architect needs to know about BPM, much of which was focused on process discovery because of the link between [...]
The second part of the morning keynote was by Bill Curtis, who was involved in developing CMM and CMMI, and now is working on the Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM). I’ve seen quite a bit about BPMM at OMG functions, but this is the first time that I’ve heard Curtis speak about it. He started [...]
I like coming to smaller conferences once in a while: although I usually have to pay my own way to get here, the networking tends to be much more real than at a larger one. In the 10 minutes before the keynote started this morning, I chatted with five people who I know, and had [...]
About a month ago, someone I know who is organizing a conference, and knows how many conferences that I attend, asked me for my list of top components that make a killer conference. My reply to him follows. First of all, about the content: It’s all about the content. You need to have good content, [...]
If you were interested in the TIBCO seminar that I attended last week, you can download Paul Brown’s slides (PDF, no registration required). I particularly like his graphics showing the current model for today’s business processes with EAI and ETL tying things together (slides 6-7), then the slides showing how SOA and BPM refine that [...]
Burton Group Inflection Point: Hitting the SharePoint Wall Great podcast on the uses and limitations of Microsoft SharePoint. Many IT managers are facing these issues due to the rapid proliferation of SP throughout enterprises. (tags: collaboration ecm) Episode 17: AIIM Insights: The Struggle with Unstructured Information An AIIM podcast discussing the management of unstructured information: [...]
How to save on using cell phones abroad – Yahoo! News Some stuff that you probably already know about switching SIM cards in your mobile, plus an explanation of TollFreeForwarding.com for forwarding to an international number. You could do the forwarding part with SkypeIn and forwarding, too. (tags: travel)
As you can guess from my previous post, we’re in the middle of prime conference season, as everyone tries to get these in before the summer. That results in a lot of potential scheduling conflicts: today, I had a request to speak at a conference during a time that I’m already committed to another conference, [...]
Having spent almost two months without getting on a plane, I’m back on the road for the next few weeks: April 22-23: Washington DC for the Architecture and Process conference April 29-May 2: San Francisco for TUCON, TIBCO’s user conference May 5-7: Orlando for SAPPHIRE, SAP’s user conference May 13-14: Chicago for BEA.Participate.08, BEA’s user [...]
Reach and Rich | DavidCrow.ca David Crow on user interface design, and the range from reach (web apps) to rich (desktop apps): “Building reach applications is the first step, but it’s the rich applications that are memorable and have the power to change the human condition.” (tags: web2.0 webdesign software) Companies Embrace Promise of BPM [...]
This fall, I’ll be back at the Business Rules Forum to make a presentation on business rules and BPM, but next week you can catch me online on a Business Rules Forum webinar speaking on the same subject: Process improvement is a top priority for executives today, but business process management (BPM) alone doesn’t provide [...]
Active Endpoints is hosting a webinar this Thursday on BPEL Basics for Java Developers, featuring Ron Romano, their principal consulting architect. From their information: A high-level overview of BPEL and its importance in a web-services environment is presented, along with a brief discussion of the basic BPEL activities and how they relate to Java concepts. [...]
2008-04-03 – Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP) – Application requesting certain orders directing Bell Canada to cease and desist from “throttling” its wholesale ADSL Access The official complaint to the CRTC about Bell Canada doing traffic shaping on the bandwidth that they sell to ISPs for resale. (tags: netneutrality)
List of Hidden Gmail Pre-Definied Labels » My Digital Life Useful when moving a lot of mail into your Gmail/Google Apps account, and want to reorganize it. (tags: search productivity gmail)
Rick Steves’ Europe: Audio Walking Tours Free audio tours and maps for Rome, Florence and Venice. Also available through iTunes. (tags: travel) Labour movement | Economist.com Free article from the Economist about working nomadically, as many of us do, without a specific place of business. Great look at the advantages and techniques as well as [...]
Geek Speak Women | find technical women to speak Are you one of those conference organizers who claim to not be able to find technical women speakers? (cough *meshconference* cough) Look no further: geekspeaker is a directory of technical women speakers. (tags: technology conference women) Dimdim: Free Live Meeting, Web Conference, Net Meeting, Online Meetings, [...]
Mike Fox of Brightlights, a recruiter serving small and medium-sized software companies, is giving a talk on Web 2.0 and business; I started out unsure of why a recruiter is talking to us about Web 2.0, and ended up pretty much of the same mind. He started with some very basic concepts, like the original [...]
I’m at the IT360 for a couple of hours this morning, mostly to hear Matthew Glotzbach, director of product management for Google Enterprise. It’s a sad commentary on the culture of Canadian IT conferences shows that this session is entitled "Meet Matthew Glotzbach of Google" in the conference guide, as if he doesn’t need to [...]
