Tweet Welcome – National Do Not Call List (DNCL) | Bienvenue – Liste nationale de numéros de télécommunication exclus (LNNTE) Canadian DNC list — will be active on Sept 30 Bicycle Registration In the wake of the recovery of 1000′s of stolen bicycles in Toronto recently, here’s the Toronto Police site for registering your bike [...]
TweetWe had a quick update yesterday from Rod Favaron and Phil Gilbert at Lombardi on their third analyst call. This was mostly an H108 update on revenue growth, new customers and new partners/geographies, none of which I usually spend a lot of time on, but I’ll summarize: 85% license revenue increase and overall 50% growth [...]
Tagged lombardi, phil gilbert, rod favaronTweet Rannie Turingan Photography » Home My friend Rannie, who did my professional headshots, has launched his portfolio site. Great pictures, I highly recommend his work. (tags: photography)
TweetIBM and ILOG announced today that IBM will be acquiring ILOG for €10/share, or about $US340 million in total. IBM’s goal is to integrate ILOG’s business rules technology into their existing BPM and SOA offerings: When completed, the acquisition of ILOG will strengthen IBM’s BPM and SOA position by providing customers a full set of [...]
Tagged IBM, ILOGTweetThe Business Rules Forum is coming up on October 26-30 in Orlando, and I’ll be back there again this year to speak. You can find my coverage of last year’s event here, and my presentation on BPM, BR and BI is available here. I found last year’s event definitely worthwhile, although I was left with [...]
Tweet Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Lombardi’s Blueprint Summer Release An in-depth review of Lombardi’s SaaS process modeler, Blueprint. The news: better interoperability, export process documentation to Word, point-in-time snapshots. (tags: bpm bpmn) TwitterCounter: How popular are you? Want to see how many Twitter followers that you have, tracked over the past [...]
Tweet Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know – ReadWriteWeb A good list, but read the comments for other valuable additions to it. (tags: database design development software)
Tweet Microsoft adds workflow to cloud-based SOA platform | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-17 | By Paul Krill Microsoft, and this writer, propagate the “workflow = web services orchestration” definition. Just to be different from everyone else in the industry. No wonder customers are confused. (tags: soa bpm) BPMN.info » Blog Archive » Coq au [...]
TweetAnother new BPMN book, this one by Stephen White (arguably the inventor of BPMN) and Derek Miers: BPMN Modeling and Reference Guide. It won’t be released until September, with a public launch at the Gartner BPM summit in DC. From the product description: This book is for both business users and process modeling practitioners alike. [...]
Tagged BPMN, derek miers, stephen whiteTweet SMG to Acquire Livingston Communications | Social Media Group Go Maggie! (tags: socialmedia) Masterpiece Cabinets//art furniture//fine furniture//sudio furniture//wooden boxes//kitchens//guelph The coolest thing that I saw at the Toronto Art Exhibition recently (tags: home) MyTTC The MyTTC site is live: if you live in Toronto and use public transportation, check out this labor of love [...]
TweetAt the Gartner BPM summit in February, I met up with Dr. Ketabchi, the founder and CEO of Savvion. Shortly before that, Savvion had axed most of their marketing department, and I was eager for the bigger picture since I knew that a lot of those people were very good at their jobs. As he [...]
Tagged ketabchi, savvionTweetAppian, a self-funded company until now, is taking on $10M in venture from Novak Biddle, who primarily fund IT startups. Appian plans to use the funding in four areas: On-demand: enhance their Appian Anywhere on-demand BPM platform, including the application marketplace. Channel and vertical applications: work with the partner ecosystem to build vertical applications in [...]
TweetI noticed in one of Tom Debevoise’s posts last week that he recently co-authored the book The Microguide to Process Modeling in BPMN, and on closer examination, I see that his co-author is Rick Geneva of Intalio, with Ismael Ghalimi writing the foreword. From the product description on Amazon: With over fifty implementations listed, Business [...]
Tagged BPMN, Ismael Ghalimi, Rick Geneva, Tom DebevoiceTweet Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool The whale has no clothes… (tags: web2.0 blogging)
TweetI was going to just link to Mike Kavis’ post on the Top 10 Reasons Why People Are Making SOA Fail, but I wanted to added some of my own comments. By the way, he’s talking primarily about IT people, not business people, in the fail part of the equation. Number 1 reason: they fail [...]
Tweet Adobe readying new mashup tool for business users – Network World Adobe’s upcoming mashup tool, Genesis. They envision users creating their own workspaces through mashing up apps and data, then sharing that with colleagues. (tags: mashups) SnapLogic Adds Amazon EC2 Support In Data-Integration Tools > > Intelligent Enterprise: Better Insight for Business Decisions SnapLogic [...]
Tweet TomDebevoise.com » BPMN Shapes to Avoid Some recommendations on BPMN shapes that can be misinterpreted, and how to avoid using them. (tags: bpmn) E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip – Additional Commentary (Part I) [...]
TweetIn case you’ve been missing my Links posts since early June, here’s what I’ve posted since then: Entrepreneurs and high-speed railways | Gulliver | Economist.comRome to Milan in 3 hours — I wish that this was ready by September when I’ll be doing the trip, but it’s not until 2011. Making the Business Case for [...]
TweetJust noticed that my Links posts haven’t been auto-posting from my del.icio.us bookmarks since early June. I’ll try deleting and recreating the daily blog posting entry in del.icio.us to see if that helps. I checked my WordPress settings and remote publishing via XML-RPC is permitted — I’m also using Live Writer to write posts, which [...]
TweetWant to improve your mood? Turn the sound up and watch this, preferably in high-quality mode: Matt Harding traveled the world doing a goofy dance, and somehow it became an uplifting video, spotlighting both differences and similarities around the globe. Yes, it’s sponsored by a chewing gum company (who have only a small mention at [...]
