TweetBlogging around here has been sporadic, to say the least. I have several half-finished posts about product reviews and some good BPM books that I’ve been reading, but I have that “problem” that independent consultants sometimes have: I’m too busy doing billable work to put up much of a public face, both with work with [...]
TweetWe had a few unanswered questions left from our webinar on Tuesday, so I’ve included the ones that were not related to Pega’s products below, with answers from both Emily Burns and myself: There’s a lot of discussion about the readiness of an org before social features are introduced to its employees. What would be [...]
TweetWhen I owned a boutique consulting firm in the 1990’s, our catchphrase was “Making Technology Mean Business”, and when we were coming up with a title for the webinar that I’m doing with Pegasystems next week, an updated version of that phrase just seemed to fit. We’ll be discussing the social aspects of business processes, [...]
TweetI just found a short article that I wrote for Savvion (now part of Progress Software) dated November 21, 2006, and decided to post it with some updated commentary on the 5th anniversary of the original paper. Enjoy! Emerging trends in BPMWhat happened in 2006, and what’s ahead in 2007 The BPM market continues to [...]
TweetBusiness Process Incubator has a new toy to play with: a BPM Glossary widget. I’ve embedded it below, and I believe that its available for any site to use. So far, I can only figure out how to search for a term (and submit a new term if it’s not found in the glossary), but [...]
TweetI know, two TIBCO-related posts in one day, but I just received the link to the replay of the Enterprise BPM webinar that I did for TIBCO last week, along with the questions that we didn’t have time to answer during the webinar, and wanted to summarize here. First of all, my slides: Enterprise BPM [...]
Tagged TIBCOTweetI had a briefing with TIBCO on their Spotfire 4.0 release, announced today and due to be released by the end of November. Spotfire is the analytics platform that TIBCO acquired a few years back, and provides end-user tools for dimensional analysis of data. This includes both visualization and mashups with other data sources, such [...]
Tagged Spotfire, tibbrTweetToday is Remembrance Day in Canada (Veterans’ Day if you are in the US), which marks the anniversary of the signing of the armistice in World War I on November 11, 1918. Today, this day is used to honor soldiers of all wars. I started a little project last year, after finding my grandfather’s WWI [...]
TweetContinuing in the SAP World Tour in Toronto today, I went to a breakout innovation session on NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) and HANA, with Steve Holder from their BusinessObjects center of excellence. HANA, in case you’ve been hiding from all SAP press releases in the past two years, is an analytic appliance (High-performance ANalytic Applicance, [...]
Tagged SAPWTTweetThere was a big crowd out for SAP’s only Canadian stop in its World Tour today: about 900 people in the keynote as Mark Aboud took the stage to discuss how SAP helps companies run their business, and look at the business trends in Canada right now: focus on the customer to create an experience; [...]
Tagged SAPWTTweetI reworked my presentation on BPM in an enterprise architecture context (a.k.a., “why this blog is called ‘Column 2’”) that I originally did at the IRM BPM conference in London in June, and presented it at the Building Business Capability conference in Fort Lauderdale last week. I removed much of the detailed information on BPMN, [...]
Tagged bbccon11TweetI attended the keynote at IBM’s CASCON conference in Toronto today, where Judy Huber, who directs the IBM Canada software lab, kicked off the session by reminding us that IBM software development has been happening in Canada since 1967 and continues to grow, and of the importance of collaboration between the research and industry communities. [...]
Tagged cascon2011TweetThe second half of the workshop started with Renée Miller from University of Toronto digging into the deeper database levels of BI, and the evolving role of schema from a prescriptive role (time-invariant, used to ensure data consistency) to a descriptive role (describe/understand data, capture business knowledge). In the old world, a schema was meant [...]
Tagged cascon2011TweetI only have one day to attend CASCON this year due to a busy schedule this week, so I am up in Markham (near the IBM Toronto software lab) to attend the NSERC Business Intelligence Network workshop this morning. CASCON is the conference run by IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies throughout the world, including the [...]
Tagged cascon2011TweetI’m presenting on two webinars this week. First, on Tuesday (tomorrow), I will be joining Jeremy Westerman of TIBCO to discuss the BPM issues and challenges specific to large enterprises. It’s at 11am Eastern (8am Pacific) on Tuesday, and you can sign up here. Then, on Wednesday, I’ll be presenting with Matt Cicciari of Progress [...]
TweetMy last session at Building Business Capability before heading home, and I just had to sit in on Thomas Olbrich’s session on some of the insights into process quality that he has gained through the Process TestLab. Just before the session, he decided to retitle it as “How to avoid being mentioned by Roger Burlton”, [...]
Tagged bbccon11TweetPaul Vincent, CTO of Business Rules and CEP at TIBCO (and possibly the only person at Building Business Capability sporting a bow tie), presented a less technical view of events that you would normally see in one of his presentation, intended to have the business analysts here at Building Business Capability understand what events are, [...]
Tagged bbccon11TweetLast day of the Building Business Capability conference, and I attended Louise Harris’ session on process and information architectures as the missing link to improving enterprise performance. She was on the panel on business versus IT architecture that I moderated yesterday, and had a lot of great insight into business architecture and enterprise architecture. Today’s [...]
Tagged bbccon11TweetRoger Burlton held a joint session across several of the tracks on assessing BPM maturity, starting with the BPTrends pyramid of process maturity, which ranges from a wide base of the implementation level, to the middle tier of the business process level, up to the enterprise level that includes strategy and process architecture. He also [...]
Tagged bbccon11TweetForrester analyst Jeff Scott presented at Building Business Capability on what business architecture is and what business architects do. According to their current research, interest in business architecture is very high – more than half of organizations consider it “very important”, and all organizations survey showed some interest – and more than half also have [...]
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