These are my links for November 10th: Revenge of the Workflow / BPM keywords « Workflow Blog – It's BPM Buzzword Bingo! I challenge all of you customers out there to make up a bingo card with a random selection of these terms and take it into your next vendor presentation. Mark off whenever you [...]
These are my links for November 9th: Let’s Chat About Documentum BPM » Blog Archive » Does Documentum BPM 6.5 Offer Anything New? – A review of Documentum’s BPM 6.5 version, from a former Documentum product manager. HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website – A tool to make your website readable on an iPhone. Requires [...]
These are my links for November 8th: HOW TO: Use Web-Based Office Tools Offline – How to work offline with three of the most popular online office tools (ThinkFree, Zoho, Google Docs), and instructions for downloading all of your documents from Google Docs.
I know that it’s only mid-November, but the conference season is pretty much over for 2008. I’m trying to get conference dates for 2009 on the shared BPM Events calendar (click through to Google Calendar to add it to your calendars), so if you have a date, please add it if you’re already an author, [...]
These are my links for November 7th: Eventbrite – World Plone Day Toronto – I'm headed over to World Plone Day today in downtown Toronto. I've never used Plone, but think that it's more of a web content management system than ECM, as they claim.
Inspired by Tim Bass’ creation of the CEP Slideshare group, I’ve created a Slideshare group for BPM. If you publish BPM presentations to Slideshare, join the group and add your presentations. If you want to track additions to the group, you can subscribe to its RSS feed.
These are my links for November 6th: Delivering Cloud Services: ISVs – Change or Die or both! – Daryl Plummer of Gartner on why a lot of software vendors are not well-equipped to make the transition to offering cloud-based services. I’m Done! – Enterprise Agility – Master Thesis blog on EA, SOA and BPM – [...]
We had a brief address by Joseph Lagioia, SVP and head of consulting for Satyam (a big partner of Software AG, and winner of this year’s partner innovation award), then he joined a panel discussion along with winners of the Software AG customer innovation awards: Jim Kern of Morgan Stanley, Robert Rennie of Florida Community [...]
These are my links for November 4th: Twenty Four CEP Public Presentations on SlideShare | Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog – Tim Bass shares his CEP presentations from March 06 to Sept 07. Not sure what he's been doing since then…
I took some time out from sessions this afternoon to meet with Software AG’s deputy CTOs, Bjoern Brauel and Miko Matsumura, but I’m back for the last session of the day with Cory Kirspel, VP of identity risk management at ChoicePoint (a LexisNexis company), on how they have created externally-facing solutions using BPM, BAM and [...]
I had lunch today at Innovation World with a Software AG partner that will be releasing one of the industry vertical frameworks (I didn’t ask if I could use their name, so am withholding it for now). They see the frameworks as a necessity to even demonstrate BPM to a vertical business, as well as [...]
Susan Ganeshan, Software AG’s SVP of product management/marketing, gave a well-attended breakout session on the webMethods suite roadmap and vision. I had a bit of a preview at a breakfast meeting this morning with Mike Lees, director of BPM product marketing, and hope to get a demo of the new major release before too much [...]
Dan Crowe, chief product officer of AutoTrader.com, gave the final keynote of the morning on how they’re using Software AG to bring together business and IT. As an online business, technology is obviously a big part of their business. In case you don’t know who AutoTrader is, they’re an online classified ad site for vehicles, [...]
Karl-Heinz Streibich gave the opening keynote; some of the same messages as his address at the media and analyst forum yesterday, plus some messaging about how SOA is a paradigm shift, and the Net generation entering the workforce is a strong driver for modernization and integration. He made the point that process innovation outranks product [...]
These are my links for November 3rd: 10 Suggestions On What To Write About When Blogging For Business | eBizine – Great post on what to blog about on your business blog, as well as tips on blogging style. Via My Name Is Kate.
We left the analysts and press who focus on financial stuff upstairs in the main lecture hall, and a smaller group of us congregated for a roundtable session with Peter Kurpick and a few other high-level technical people from Software AG. These notes are really disjointed since I was just trying to capture ideas as [...]
Dr. Peter Kürpick, Chief Product Officer, was up next to give us more of the technology strategy and vision. He covered some generic views of ESB, BPM and BAM and how they fit together, then showed the roadmap for the webMethods suite with respect to their releases throughout 2008: building the functionality, then adding performance, [...]
First up after lunch at the Media and Analyst Forum was Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG. This is better attended than this morning’s session (which was marked “optional” on my schedule, and likely on that of many others), and we’re hearing from the more senior people in this session. It’s impossible for any business [...]
These are my links for November 3rd: GenderAnalyzer – Determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman – According to GenderAnalyzer, my blog is written by a man. If I could just find the lazy SOB, I'd get him to post more when I'm busy. Seriously, doesn't this just help to institutionalize [...]
I’m spending the morning at the media and analyst forum at Software AG’s user conference, Innovation World, in Miami. The first half of the morning covered mainframe modernization, plus a presentation by Miko Matsumura (who I met last week at the Business Rules Forum), Deputy CTO, on the state of SOA adoption. He’s just published [...]
