TweetI’ll be speaking on a webinar this Wednesday at noon Eastern time about how business and IT really need to work together in order to make BPM projects happen: this isn’t truly end-user computing in anything more than simple human-centric workflows. It’s sponsored by Active Endpoints, and their product manager will also be talking a [...]
Tweet Convert PDF to Word (DOC) — 100% Free! A free online PDF to Word converter. PDF to Excel also available. Via JC Dichant. (tags: web2.0 tools conversion)
TweetI recently ran up against the question of when to use a content/document management system and when to use a wiki for content inside an organization. I had some thoughts of my own on the subject, my customer had some other thoughts, I went out the Twitterverse for advice, and had an interesting dinner discussion [...]
Tweet BPM Twibe – BPM Twitter Users Another list of BPM Twitterers. If you tweet about BPM, you should join this Twibe; if you follow BPM, check here for any people that you're not already following, or follow the BPM-related conversation directly on this page. (tags: bpm socialmedia) Annuaire (Directory) BPM Twitter : les acteurs [...]
Tweet 10 Things You Don’t Need to Do In the Clouds « SmoothSpan Blog Things that you no longer need to worry about when you outsource your infrastructure. (tags: saas)
TweetVia Mashable, I discovered a cool little gadget this morning: Retaggr, which allows me to create a profile page and badge with all my social media links, then embed it on my blog or website: You can click on the links within it to show the content from those sites directly within the badge, or [...]
Tweet The FASTForward Blog » A Curious Case of Enterprise 2.0 : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary Thoughts on barriers to enterprise social media adoption: "No one (okay, almost no one) expects that buying a word processor can turn him into a great writer. Yet somehow it’s almost widely assumed that deploying tools [...]
Tweet Just 15% of Companies that Implemented a BPM System are Realizing End-User Productivity Gains of More than 50% Why we need more collaboration and flexibility in BPM: 85% of BPM users "often" or "occasionally" design their own workarounds in order to get things done. (tags: bpm) The Wizardry of Business Process Management – Part [...]
TweetI finally found time to watch the replay of the webinar that I missed earlier this week featuring Mike Gotta of the Burton Group on enterprise social networking. He started with an evolution of enterprise social networks, beginning with email: although fragmented and a highly flawed model, that’s how many people and organizations interacted for [...]
Tweet Open Source Enterprise Business Rules Arrive » JT on EDM JBoss releases a new version of their open source business rules management system, including tools for allowing business users to edit rules, plus enhanced design and testing tools. (tags: brm)
TweetNeil Ward-Dutton gave a webinar this morning about delivering on the promise of BPM: how we have to get past the vision of BPM as model-driven development for rapid application delivery, and focus on the bigger picture of enabling continuous process improvement through technology use. There are a lot of challenges when you move past [...]
Tweet I’ll be at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston next month as part of their bloggers’ network. If you plan to attend, you can click the badge at the left for 30% off your registration, or to receive a free pavilion pass. I am not compensated in any way if you click through for [...]
TweetI had a request from a reader for a list explaining the various acronyms that I use in these blog posts, and around BPM in general. I’m sure that there are several lists like this, but I’ve pulled together a starting list and have opened it up by creating it in a Google spreadsheet that [...]
Tweet Lombardi Blog | Process People » Blog Archive » The Blueprint Spring ‘09 Release Is Now Live! Some nice new social aspects added to Lombardi's Blueprint. (tags: saas bpa socialmedia) www.bpmn-book.com – The Process BPMN – the novel. No, really. (tags: bpmn) Here’s how you know you need business rules » JT on EDM [...]
TweetRobert Shapiro spoke on a webinar today about BPMN 2.0, including some of the history of how BPMN got to this point, changes and new features from the previous version and the challenges that those may create, the need for portability and conformance, and an update on XPDL 2.2. The webinar was hosted by the [...]
Tagged BPDM, BPEL, BPMN, XPDLTweetIt’s the last session of the day – and for me, for the conference – and I’m attending the open forum on workflow and BPM hosted by a number of people from inside and outside SAP with experience in different workflow and BPM areas. The format was 100% audience Q&A, and the focus was really [...]
Tagged sapphire09TweetI spent yesterday and this morning in the global communications center at the north end of the conference center, since SAP’s teams for managing social media (that’s us bloggers), press and analysts brings the SAP executives to us for meetings up there. They pipe in the keynote sessions, give us comfy tables with internet access, [...]
Tagged sapphire09TweetI started to get paranoid yesterday when my meeting with Wolfgang Hilpert and Thomas Vollmering was scheduled at the same time as Ginger Gatling’s session on NetWeaver BPM, then they didn’t show for the meeting – was there something they didn’t want me to know? However, it was just a scheduling glitch, and eventually we [...]
Tagged sapphire09Tweet Using business rules to make processes simpler, smarter and more agile James Taylor's presentation on using rules and process together. (tags: bpm brm) Complementing IBM BPM with ILOG » JT on EDM James Taylor's coverage of the IBM Impact session on using ILOG BRMS together with WebSphere BPM. (tags: bpm brm) Books ~ BPMN [...]
TweetA small group of bloggers had the opportunity to sit around a table with Marge Breya to expand on what we saw during the press conference on BusinessObjects Explorer. She discussed how unstructured data has being elevated to first class status within SAP, with analytics and reporting tools that can lay over unstructured as well [...]
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