I switched over to the architecture stream to see the session on trade lifecycle management using BusinessWorks and iProcess, jointly presented by Cognizant and TIBCO. Current-day trading systems are under a great deal of stress because of increased volume of trades, more complex cross-border trades, and greater compliance requirements. When trades fail, for a variety [...]
Immediately after the Spotfire-BPM session, I was up to talk about using BPM to drive top-down service discovery and definition. I would have posted my slides right away, but one of the audience members pointed out that the arrows in the two diagrams should be bidirectional (I begged forgiveness on the grounds that I’m an [...]
Lars Bauerle and Brendan Gibson of TIBCO showed us how Spotfire analytics are being integrated with data from iProcess to identify process improvement. I hadn’t seen Spotfire in any detail before the demo that I saw on Tuesday, and it’s a very impressive visualization and analysis tool; today, they showed iProcess process runtime data copied [...]
Tom Laffey was back hosting the keynote, dressed in a cycling shirt from Team TIBCO, one of the best US women’s pro cycling teams. He was joined briefly by a member of the team who also happens to hold a Ph.D. in biology; like any geeky engineer, Laffey giggled nervously in the presence of an [...]
The last session of the day was a bit of a tough choice: I was thinking about heading over to see the session on in-process analytics through the integration of Spotfire and BusinessEvents, but decided in favor of hearing Richard Frost of HBOS (a UK-based financial services organization) discuss their centralized BPM platform and center [...]
Roger King and Justin Brunt of TIBCO gave us an update of what’s happened lately with their BPM product, and what’s coming up. In the past year, Business Studio has added a lot of new features: Support for BPMN 1.0 and XPDL 2.0 In-line service binding and mapping, through direct connections to Business Works, web [...]
Daniel Freed of Merck discussed their SAP implementation, and how their integration strategy uses TIBCO to integrate with non-SAP systems. As with Connie Moore’s presentation this morning, the room was packed (I’m sitting on the floor and others standing around the perimeter of the room), and I have to believe that TIBCO completely underestimated attendees’ [...]
I enjoyed Paul Brown’s seminar in Toronto a few weeks back, so I attended his session today on planning and architecture for SOA and BPM: how to define the services that we need and rationalize our data architecture in the face of managing end-to-end processes that span functional silos? Although many organizations have systems within [...]
Connie Moore kicked off the Process Improvement track with the Forrester message "design for people, build for change" and dynamic business applications to a packed room. Check out my coverage of her keynote from the Forrester technology leadership conference last year for some background to this theme. She discussed how methods of working are changing [...]
I decided to break this out into a separate post although it’s all the same keynote, since this is getting a bit long and this post has all the product goodies in it, including TIBCO’s first-ever hardware release in the form of a messaging appliance. Matt Quinn, TIBCO’s SVP of engineering and technology strategies, discussed [...]
Before I start, I have to make a comment about the analyst dinner last night. I usually have a hard-and-fast rule about not blogging anything that happens when I have a drink in my hand, but I want to shout out to Heidi Bartlett for organizing the analyst summit yesterday and arranging for an amazing [...]
Dean Hidalgo, Director of Industry and Partner Marketing, discussed the partner network and how it ties into their overall strategy. As we heard in the sales strategy sessions, partnering is extremely important in certain regions and will be increasingly so as TIBCO pushes into new geographies that they can’t cover with their own people directly. [...]
Christopher Ahlberg, founder of Spotfire and now president of TIBCO’s Spotfire division, discussed Spotfire’s capabilities and what’s been done with integrating Spotfire into other TIBCO products. Timely insights — the right information at the right time — is a competitive differentiator for most businesses, and classic business intelligence just doesn’t cut it in many cases. [...]
Ram Menon, EVP of Marketing and Product Strategy, discussed the go to market strategy for some of the opportunities that Murray Rode identified earlier. One opportunity for growth is in simplification, in four major areas: Improved focus on who they are targeting in the sales process, based on their experience of who is most likely [...]
Next up was Vivek Ranadivé, CEO, with a summary of where the company came from and some vision for the future: Enterprise 3.0 (yes, he actually said that), focused on event-driven SOA, predictive analytics and the business processes that use them. He sees their superior technology as key, but feel that customers also gravitate to [...]
TIBCO’s having their first ever analyst summit in the day before the TUCON user conference starts, covering both business strategy and product announcements. First up was Murray Rode, CFO, with a company overview and their position in the market. Their key market segments are SOA and BPM, as we know, but also business optimization (rules [...]
Having spent almost two months without getting on a plane, I’m back on the road for the next few weeks: April 22-23: Washington DC for the Architecture and Process conference April 29-May 2: San Francisco for TUCON, TIBCO’s user conference May 5-7: Orlando for SAPPHIRE, SAP’s user conference May 13-14: Chicago for BEA.Participate.08, BEA’s user [...]
Last session of the conference, and it was a tough choice: the ALBPM Experience track was featuring a talk about BAM, but since I’d already covered this in the past two days, I decided on the performance tuning session. Unfortunately, 10 minutes into the time slot, the Q&A for the previous session was still dragging [...]
Thursday morning, and it seems like a few of us survived last night’s baseball game (and the after-parties) to make it here for the first session of the day. This will be my last session of the conference, since I have a noon flight in order to get back to Toronto tonight. Tim Stephenson and [...]
For the last breakout session of the day, Mark Elder of TIBCO talked about reporting and analytics with iProcess Analytics, their historical (rather than real-time) analytics product.. The crowd’s thin this time of day, although I understand that the lobby bar is well-populated; this was the same timeslot that Tim and I had yesterday, but [...]
