TweetSince I have a lot of insurance clients, I attended this afternoon’s panel on the state of the insurance industry, hosted by Cindy Maike of Progress, and including Dan Benton of Kemper Corporation (former underwriter, now in IT), David Brandeis of Strongwood Insurance Holdings (IT), and Roy Ausberger of Virtusa (formerly IT within insurance and [...]
Tagged ProgressRevTweetI was late arriving at the breakout session by Virtusa’s Stuart Chandler this afternoon – as Ron Locklin tweeted, we’re over here in the outer Siberia of the conference center, and it was a long trip – so arrived as Chandler was discussing their experiences with customers who are undergoing business transformation powered by BPM [...]
Tagged ProgressRevTweetI sat in on a breakout session today at the Progress Revolution conference on OpenEdge BPM and migrating existing OpenEdge applications to work with (Savvion) BPM. There are some new ways of doing this that are coming in OE 11 that we are not seeing in this session, but I’ve had a few conversations with [...]
Tagged ProgressRevTweetI was late to Neil Ward-Dutton’s session due to another meeting, and ended up arriving just as he started on reason #7. However, in the summary, he did list out his 7 reasons of why you want to build business applications using BPM technology: Demonstrate value transparently Support iterative, collaborative changes Speed up user acceptance [...]
Tagged ProgressRevTweetDr. Ketabchi, who was CEO of Savvion before the acquisition and is now a chief strategist at Progress, presented a breakout session on using RPM to enable enterprises to improve their top and bottom line. BPM isn’t just about cutting costs and improving quality any more (although those are still important, and expected), it’s also [...]
Tagged BPF11, ProgressRevTweetKen Wilner, Progress’ VP of Technology for the OpenEdge product, gave a breakout session on OpenEdge BPM, which integrates the former Savvion BPM platform into the OpenEdge application development environment to allow the business process to be made explicit – externalized from the application – in order to improve agility and visibility. It’s interesting to [...]
Tagged ProgressRevTweetThe second morning keynote was by John Goodson, SVP of products, digging a bit more deeply into the technology and products behind responsive business management (Control Tower, Savvion, Apama, Actional, Visual Analytics) and responsive business integration (Actional, DataXtend, DataDirect, Sonic). This is a formidable suite of products, and there are 20 more in their portfolio [...]
Tagged ProgressRevTweetI arrived in Boston yesterday for Progress Software’s user conference, Revolution, and to deliver an Introduction to BPM workshop yesterday afternoon. With that out of the way, I can focus on the other speakers here, and what’s happening with Progress these days. The keynotes opened with Rick Reidy, the CEO, with a bit of history [...]
Tagged ProgressRevTweetI gave a workshop on Introduction to BPM at the pre-conference day yesterday for Progress Software’s user conference, Revolution: Introduction to BPM View more presentations from Sandy Kemsley. The room was full, well over 120 people, and I’ve had a lot of good feedback from the session. As always, I could have talked all day [...]
Tagged ProgressRevTweetRick Reidy, Progress CEO, opened their one-day analyst event in New York by talking about operational responsiveness: how your enterprise needs to be able to respond to events that happen that are outside your control. You can’t control crises, but you can control your organization’s response to those crises. Supporting operational responsiveness are four technology [...]
Tagged prgsad11TweetI just found the last of my Progress analyst day notes from last week, scrawled in a paper notebook (which is why I usually write directly to keyboard at conferences). These were from one-on-one meetings that I had with John Bates and Dr. Ketabchi after the end of the formal presentations, where I had a [...]
TweetJohn Goodson, who heads up the Enterprise Data Solutions group within Progress, had the last timeslot before lunch to present on the role of informational integrity in operational responsiveness. Problems occur because business needs data faster than IT systems can deliver it, and inflexible methods can’t adapt to the fast-changing business conditions. Batch ETL just [...]
TweetDr. K. took the stage to tell us about the planned integration between the existing Progress products and Savvion, starting with a discussion of Savvion’s event-driven human-centric beginnings, model-driven development and solution accelerators. The new Progress RPM (responsive process management) suite has Savvion’s BPM at its core, combining their BPM and BRM strengths with CEP [...]
TweetJohn Bates started with more of the Progress message on operational responsiveness, highlighting the importance of process and event management in this. He showed survey results stating that companies find it critical to respond to problematic events in real time, but only a small percentage are able to actually do that. Companies want real-time business [...]
TweetRob Levy, Progress’ SVP and chief product officer (formerly of BEA), discussed more of the product strategy. Progress is really trying to bring the Wayne Gretzsky approach (“skate to where the puck is going, not to where it has been”) to their customers’ business: don’t focus on what is happening now, but on what will [...]
Tagged progress softwareTweetThis is my first time at a Progress Software analyst day; I’ve been at Savvion events in the past, and their acquisition by Progress is likely why I was invited here. The day started with Rick Reidy discussing the new strategy and structure that Progress is pursuing: they’ve tended to be organized into product silos, [...]
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