TweetWe 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 [...]
TweetI 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 [...]
TweetSusan 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 [...]
TweetDan 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, [...]
TweetKarl-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 [...]
TweetWe 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 [...]
TweetI’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 [...]
TweetI was in Windows Live Writer this morning (the offline tool that I use for writing blog posts) and noticed that I had totally forgotten to post the last two from Integration World last week. I’ve published them on the dates that they were written, and you can find Tata’s short presentation on next-generation SOA [...]
TweetBruce Williams, SVP and GM of BPM Solutions for Software AG/webMethods talked about BPM and how it enables business transformation. Bruce, who I had a chance for an in-depth chat with yesterday, comes from a solid Six Sigma background — including writing books on Six Sigma and Lean — which makes his focus on process [...]
TweetSantosh Mohanty from Tata gave a presentation on SOA, with a bit about the current generation, and how to move on to the next generation. Tata is a pretty major sponsor of the conference: I think that webMethods created a new “diamond” level of sponsorship just for them, which gives them both the opening night [...]
TweetBruce Beeco of Cox Communications told their story of how and why they implemented webMethods BPMS. Their goals: Reusable processes independent of channel Consistent experience independent of channel Visibility into processes Proactive on customer-facing problems Automate manual tasks to reduce cost and errors Improve time-to-market for new products and services Overall, their goal is to [...]
TweetPete Carlson (Product Development) and Matt Green (Product Marketing) gave some of the high points of the new 7.1 release of webMethods BPMS. Their first question to the audience was to determine who is already involved in a BPM project in their organization: almost no hands went up. As it turns out, most people are [...]
TweetThe futurist Peter Schwartz gave the final keynote this morning; I saw him giving a closing keynote at the Gartner BPM conference in February this year and really enjoyed it; unfortunately, this was pretty much the same talk. Long tail…blah, blah, blah…nanophotonics…blah, blah, blah…flattening world…blah, blah, blah…global warming…blah, blah, blah…ubiquitous broadband. Conference organizers should definitely [...]
TweetPeter Kurpick, CPO (Chief Product Officer) of webMethods Business Division, gave an overview of the technology direction. He talked about the paradigm for SOA governance, with the layers of technical services, business services and policies being consumed by business processes: the addition of the policy layer (which is the SOA governance part) sets this apart [...]
TweetDavid Mitchell, COO of webMethods Business Division, was up next with a much greater focus on BPM. webMethods had been positioning BPM — including both system-to-system and human-facing — as their growth area before the acquisition, and that’s still the message. Companies are competing on process, not just products and services, since process represents the [...]
TweetWell, not really day 1: there were classes yesterday, but this is the first day of the Integration World conference per se. Someone in webMethods management must have a serious love for electric guitars, since the prize at last night’s reception was a Gibson Les Paul guitar, and a loud (for 8:30am) rock band was [...]
TweetThanks to Air Canada’s ever-shifting schedule (why does the same flight number that I flew to Orlando two weeks ago now leave an hour later?), I arrived too late to the analyst briefing to hear the Peter Kurpick and David Mitchell of the webMethods division, but did sit in on the latter half to hear [...]
TweetThis week I’m not travelling — a chance to catch up on the work that I’m actually paid for — but next week, I’m off to the Software AG/webMethods user conference, Integration World. Watch for my blogging coverage from there. Disclosure: as with all vendor user conferences that I attend, Software AG is covering my [...]
