TweetI’m wrapping up my TUCON trip with the Colonial Life presentation on their TIBCO iProcess and BusinessWorks implementation in their back office. I work a lot with insurance companies, and find that they can be very conservative in terms of technology implementations: many are just implementing document imaging and workflow, and haven’t really looked at [...]
Tagged tucon2011TweetMark Cotgrove and Clark Swain from Nimbus Partners presented in a breakout session on Nimbus and how it fits into the bigger TIBCO picture, as an expansion of the short presentation we saw from Cotgrove at the analyst session yesterday. To sum up the message from yesterday, Nimbus Control provides an essential bit of business-driven [...]
Tagged tucon2011TweetToday’s keynotes were 1.5 hours less than yesterday’s, but still a hefty 2 hours long. Some of the highlights: Ashok Vemuri of Infosys gave the opening keynote on innovation. He discussed how technology is making a difference in the developing world, such as mobile branchless banking in Kenya, and how the human qualities of mind, [...]
Tagged tucon2011TweetTom Laffey, EVP of products and technology, moderated a session highlighting three of TIBCO’s recent acquisitions: OpenSpirit, Loyalty Lab and Nimbus. Clay Harter, CTO of OpenSpirit (which was acquired by TIBCO a year ago), discussed their focus on delivering data and integration applications to the oil and gas industry. Their runtime framework provided a canonical [...]
Tagged tucon2011TweetMatt Quinn, CTO, gave us the product strategy presentation that will be seen in the general session tomorrow. He repeated the “capture many events, store few transactions” message as well as the five key components of a 21st century platform that we heard from Murrary Rode in the previous session; this is obviously a big [...]
Tagged tucon2011TweetI’m in Vegas this week at TUCON, TIBCO’s user conference, and this afternoon I’m at the analyst event. For the corporate strategy session, they put the industry analysts and financial analysts together, meaning that there were way too many dark suits in the room for my taste (and my wardrobe). Murray Rode, COO, gave us [...]
Tagged tucon2011TweetWe started after the break with Jeremy Westerman, head of BPM product marketing for TIBCO, presenting on AMX BPM. The crowd is a bit slow returning, which I suspect is due more to the availability of Wii Hockey down the hall than to the subject matter. Most telling, Westerman has the longest timeslot of the [...]
TweetTIBCO’s doing a roadshow called TIBCO Now, and because the Toronto one is practically in my backyard – and is at the Hockey Hall of Fame, which I’ve always wanted to visit – I’m here this afternoon to hear about what’s coming up product-wise, and also hear from some of their local customers. We had [...]
TweetWe’re overtime on the general session, 2.75 hours without a break, and Matt Quinn is up to talk about the TIBCO product stack and some of the recent releases as well as upcoming releases: Spotfire 3.1 BusinessEvents 4.0, with an improved Eclipse-based development environment including a rule debugger, and a multi-threaded engine BEViews (BusinessEvents Views) [...]
Tagged tuconTweetWe had a brief comment from Tom Laffey in the general session about TIBCO’s new ultra low latency messaging platform to be released by year end, which breaks the microsecond barrier. They’re calling it FTL, which makes my inner (or not so inner) geek giggle with happiness: for sci-fi fans, that’s the acronym for “Faster [...]
Tagged tuconTweetThe third keynote speaker this morning was Wolfgang Gaertner, CIO of Deutsche Bank: we’ve moved from international crime-fighting to the somewhat more mundane – but every bit as international and essential – world of banking. Their biggest challenge over the past few years has been to reduce the paper flow that was slowing the communication [...]
Tagged tuconTweetThe special guest speaker at this morning’s keynote was Ronald Noble, Secretary General of INTERPOL, speaking about why speed matters in law enforcement, and using technology to stay a step ahead of the criminals. He engaged the crowd with very funny and completely deadpan humor, but addressed the very serious topic of how the expedient [...]
Tagged tuconTweetWe’re done with the analyst day (although I swear that my handler had me RFID-chipped, since she found me with no problem in the large auditorium at the keynote this morning ), and on to the general conference. TIBCO skipped their user conference last year, as did many other technology companies, and there are some [...]
Tagged tuconTweetTom Laffey, EVP of Products and Technology, gave us an update at the analyst session yesterday on their new product releases (embargoed until today), but started with an interesting timeline of the their acquisitions. Unlike some companies, who make acquisitions just to remove a competitor from the market, TIBCO appears to have made some thoughtful [...]
Tagged tuconTweetNo rest for the wicked: at the analyst lunch, we had sessions on four of TIBCO’s recent acquisitions while we were eating: DataSynapse This is a significant part of TIBCO’s cloud and grid strategy, with a stack of four key products: Grid Server, which allows multiple servers to be pooled and used as a single [...]
Tagged tuconTweetFollowing the product update (which is embargoed until tomorrow), Ram Menon was up to talk about their go-to-market strategy. TIBCO has really been known as a powerhouse in the financial services in the past, but given the meltdown in the financial markets over the past two years, they’ve probably realized that this former cash cow [...]
Tagged tuconTweetMurray Rode, TIBCO’s COO, started the TIBCO analyst day with their vision and strategy. The vision: Enterprise 3.0. Srsly. They seem to have co-opted the Enterprise 1.0/2.0 terms to mean what they want it to mean rather than the more accepted views: they define Enterprise 2.0, for example, as everything from the 80’s to 2009, [...]
Tagged tuconTweetIt’s been quiet for several months for conferences, but things are heating up again for the next four weeks. Here’s my upcoming schedule: This week, I’m at PegaWorld in Philadelphia, including chairing a workshop on Wednesday morning on case management The week of May 3rd, IBM Impact in Las Vegas The week of May 10th, [...]
TweetThe last session of the day — and likely the last one of the conference for me, since I think that the engineering roundtables tomorrow morning are targeted at customers — was Enrique Goizueta of TIBCO discussing a "Lego approach" to creating business processes: dynamic BPM using the iProcess Conductor. Bruce Silver raved about the [...]
Tagged enrique goizueta, iprocess conductor, tuconTweetBoth Patrick Stamm (CTO) and Kevin Maloney (CIO) of Golden Rule Insurance were on hand to discuss their experiences in building a BPM infrastructure. They started out looking at BPM because of the multiple redundant systems and applications that they have, which is endemic in insurance: multiple ratings engines, multiple policy systems and multiple claims [...]
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