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{ Monthly Archives } November 2008

Bookmarks for November 29th

TweetThese are my links for November 29th: YouTube – Gartner Analyst Janelle Hill – Work With the Business – Gartner now has a YouTube channel with some short clips of analysts, including this one by Janelle Hill on BPM. Via SageCircle.

Bookmarks for November 28th

TweetThese are my links for November 28th: BPM is not Software Engineering « Go Flow – Keith Swenson on how BPM is really model-driven design, not a development tool: "BPMN does not exist for the convenience of Software Engineers, because BPM is not Software Engineering" Inside Architecture : Software Reflects The Process That Creates It [...]

Bookmarks for November 27th

TweetThese are my links for November 27th: The IT ‘Devil’s Triangle’ [podcast] | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com – Michael Krigsman interviews Brian Sommer about the conflicting agendas of vendors, systems integrators, consultants and customers.

Bookmarks for November 27th

TweetThese are my links for November 27th: CIOs Must learn to Deal With Social Networking – Messaging and Collaboration – The CIO of CIO at Argo Turboserve, a provider of supply chain management services, calls the Net Generation "info-brats", monitors LinkedIn for "personal use", and feels that they have the right to subject their customers [...]

Bookmarks for November 26th

TweetThese are my links for November 26th: An attempt at demystifying CEP, BPM and BRMS – Enterprise Decision Management – a Weblog – Excellent post by Carole-Ann Matignon of Fair Isaac on the interplay between CEP, BPM and BRMS. I like her "human body" analogy: CEP is the sensors, BPM is the nerves (and pretty [...]

Bookmarks for November 24th

TweetThese are my links for November 24th: City Of Toronto – A Web 2.0 summit put on by the City of Toronto about moving towards government 2.0 in a municipal environment, coming up this Wednesday and Thursday. Apparently there's no room for more onsite attendees, but you can listen in on the webcast. Lots of [...]

Canadian blog awards

TweetIt’s time for the Canadian blog awards, and I’m nominated in the “Best Sci/Tech Blog” category. Feel free to head over there and cast your vote; you do not have to be Canadian to vote.

You have to focus on vendors even if they are narcissistic or whiny

TweetThis post by analyst relations consultant Carter Lusher, entitled You have to focus on influential analysts even if they are negative or unpleasant, totally cracked me up. There are lots of analysts with attitude, but there are also lots of vendors out there who could use some lessons from Miss Manners: in dealing with vendors, [...]

Survey on business process modeling

TweetThree universities with BPM programs — Humboldt University, Eindhoven University of Technology and the Queensland University of Technology — are running a survey on how business process models can be improved in terms of understandability. You can take the survey here, although it’s specifically for those who model using event-driven process chains (EPC). As a [...]

Bookmarks for November 22nd

TweetThese are my links for November 22nd: Why XPDL is Essentially Useless – More BPM standards flame-bait. Enterprise Initiatives: Enterprise Mashups – The Icing on your SOA – Mike Kavis on what his new company is doing, and how they're using JackBe's enterprise mashup server. Arvind Jain's SOA BAM BI blog: Currently evaluating Oracle BPM [...]

Bookmarks for November 21st

TweetThese are my links for November 21st: She’s Geeky | Events – The first She's Geeky event for women in technology, now scheduled for December 5-7 in New York.

Bookmarks for November 20th

TweetThese are my links for November 20th: Sign up for Google Apps – A direct link to the signup page for the free version of Google Apps for your domain, since they’ve made it very hard to find on their signup pages now. I use the paid version of Google Apps for my primary domain [...]

OMG, I’m on video…

TweetMarilyn Pratt of SAP captured me on video at the reception at the SAP Insider BPM 2008 conference. Yes, there were drinks involved.

SAP BPM 2008: Business Rules Management

TweetI was up bright and early today to hear Soum Chatterjee from SAP Labs give an introduction to their business rules product, the recently-acquired Yasu (which Chatterjee claims stands for Yet Another Start-Up). I’ve had a bit of a look at it in the context of the NetWeaver BPM demos that I’ve had, but wanted [...]

Lombardi Analyst Call

TweetLombardi had a call today for analyst, with Rod Favaron covering business, the market and customers, and Phil Gilbert on the product and technology. Lombardi continues to grow — 60% in license revenue and 40% overall — although their services business isn’t growing as fast as license sales since they are bringing on more partners [...]

SAP Tools for Process Definition, Modeling and Management

TweetI spent the morning presenting an introduction to BPM in a jumpstart session at the SAP BPM 2008 event put on by SAP Insider and was going to spend the afternoon by the pool, but was tempted by Ann Rosenberg’s invitation to her afternoon session, A Complete Guide to SAP Tools for Business Process Definition, [...]

Bookmarks for November 14th

TweetThese are my links for November 14th: UPDATE 2-Metastorm pulls IPO, citing tough market | Reuters – Not surprisingly, Metastorm cancels the initial public offering that they announced in May.

Bookmarks for November 13th

TweetThese are my links for November 13th: ProcessMaker – Open Source Workflow & Business Process Management (BPM) Management Software – Open source BPMS built on PHP, available for Linux or Windows. Also available as a hosted solution.

Bookmarks for November 11th

TweetThese are my links for November 11th: Enterprise Microsharing Apps: Read All About Em | Pistachio – Thinking about using Twitter-like microblogging inside your enterprise? Here's a report from Pistachio that reviews 19 of these tools. Via Jevon MacDonald at the FASTForward blog. Official Google Reader Blog: Is Your Web Truly World-Wide? – Google Reader [...]

Mobile experiments

TweetI’ve been running a mobile device experiment for the past six weeks: since my Blackberry three-year contract ran out, I switched to using a standard mobile phone (with a greatly reduced monthly fee) plus an iPod Touch. I was lucky enough to score a free iPod Touch — BEA’s last marketing blowout at their conference [...]