Tweet BPM explained in 15 minutes (Lombardi webinar) Brandon Baxter of Lombardi: "Think about BPM as the layer between your people and your systems" – in other words, part of the functionality is to do things that your existing systems don't already do, plus orchestrate multi-system processes. This is positioning a unified UI capability as [...]
Tweet First Look – IBM/ILOG BRMS 7.0 » JT on EDM James Taylor's very comprehensive review of the new ILOG releases. Includes a great description of IBM pulling a business person from the audience at a public product demo and having him create a decision table in the product – what better way to show [...]
Tweet Coding Horror: The Web Browser Address Bar is the New Command Line Nice. I already use some of these, but this gives me lots of ideas. Via Stephen O'Grady. (tags: productivity) AIIM – Five Reasons Your ECM System May Never Be Deployed 82% of organizations have ECM shelfware that's not in production "yet". Depressingly [...]
TweetFor the last session of the day – and what will be the last session of the Enterprise 2.0 conference for me – I shifted over to the Enterprise2Open unconference for a discussion on social processes with Mark Masterson. As part of his job developing software for insurance companies, he put together a mockup of [...]
Tagged e2openTweetI had a chance to meet with Cheryl McKinnon from Open Text while here at the Enterprise 2.0 conference for a briefing and a demo of Open Text Social Media, their enterprise social software offering to be released within a few weeks. This is a part of the Enterprise 2.0 market that I’m really interested [...]
TweetPeter Kim moderated a panel of three people from end-user organizations – Ben Foster of Allstate Life Insurance, Greg Matthews of Humana, and Morgan Johnston of JetBlue – on social media adoption for both external as well as internal use by enterprises. Allstate recently launched the consumer-facing Good Hands Community, including both a social site [...]
Tagged e2confTweetAn eight-person panel discussed how organizations can use social messaging to improve internal and external communication and collaboration. I’m not even going to try to track who says what, since I’ve lost track of who’s who (except for the lone woman on the panel), so just random notes: Unified Communications vendors need to open up [...]
Tagged e2confTweetThe morning started with Andrew McAfee interviewing Shawn Dahlen and Chris Keohane from Lockheed Martin about how they’ve progressed on their internal social network since we heard about it at last year’s conference. Back in 2004, they approached the CIO to get project seed money for internal blogging, since there was a need for internal [...]
Tagged e2confTweetAaron Levie of Box.net is presenting in the last breakout slot of the day, looking at how to apply the lessons learned in consumer social networks to how these can be applied within the enterprise. He started on the ideas of speed (as in speed/ease of sharing information), community and openness as key features of [...]
Tagged e2conf e2conf28TweetLee Bryant of Headshift looked at the adoption challenges for Enterprise 2.0 technologies in companies that have grown up around a centralized model of IT, particularly for the second wave adopters required to move Enterprise 2.0 into the mainstream within an organization. He points out that we can’t afford the high-friction, high-cost model of deploying [...]
Tagged e2conf e2conf26TweetPeter Kim (formerly a Forrester analyst, now Dachis) moderated a panel on lessons learned from internal communities – that is, the social networking communities inside enterprises – with Jamie Pappas from EMC, Joan DiMicco from IBM Research and Patricia Romeo from Deloitte. I met DiMicco at last year’s conference in a session with Jeff Schick [...]
Tagged e2conf e2conf30TweetI’m watching the panel entitled “Enterprise 2.0 Reality Check: What’s Working, What’s Not, What’s Next”, moderated by Matthew Fraser, and featuring Christian Finn of Microsoft, Nate Nash of BearingPoint, Neil Callahan of mktg and Ross Mayfield of Socialtext. Amazingly, I’ve found the optimal way to do this is to go back to my room and [...]
Tagged e2confTweetThere’s been a lot of muttering that the Enterprise 2.0 conference is just a vendor love-fest, rather than having a significant attendance from people who are actually doing Enterprise 2.0. Whether it’s because the bloom is off this conference’s rose, or the economy, it’s telling that I was able to pick up a room here [...]
Tagged e2confTweet Trends: Some lessons out of ECM vendor demo hell A detailed view of how things can go horribly wrong in vendor demos, and why vendors need to pay attention to this. (tags: ecm)
Tweet Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » BPM Conferences in Trouble? More on the problems with conferences these days. Unfortunately, companies like Gartner are in the conference business, so have no motivation to take Scott's advice and focus on content rather than turnstiles. (tags: bpm conference) More BPMN in the Cloud – Signavio [...]
TweetI’m presenting a webinar today at noon Eastern on how to expand a BPM project into an enterprise BPM project, as part of the BPM Basics series. You can register here, or check the BPM Basics site later for a replay.
TweetI listened in on a webinar today that included six different BPM vendors discussing intelligent BPM for the enterprise. It’s a bit unusual to have several different vendors on the same presentation; here’s who was there: Jeremy Westerman, TIBCO Brandon Baxter, Lombardi Russell Keziere, Pegasystems Miko Matsumura, Software AG Simon Clephan, IBM Ryan Licari, IDS [...]
Tweet Full Registration Page Presentations from the 2009 Regional UserNet (IBM FileNet ECM/BPM user conference) (tags: ecm bpm)
Tweet The Wizardry of Business Process Management – Part 2 » The TEC Blog A detailed review of Pegasystems and its CEO. Lots of good detail on the product, and some colorful back stories. (tags: bpm) Trends: EMC Documentum opens the kimono Documententum developer edition of Content Server now free. Why can't all vendors do [...]
Tweet IDS Scheer AG – Business Process Excellence: IDS Scheer Webcasts IDS Scheer has published their webinar lineup for the next few months. Looks like we have to wait until October to see ARIS Express, a free process modeling tool. (tags: bpa) Four Myths of BPMS: The real truth about BPM and collaboration between IT [...]
