After something of a delay, and a great deal of consternation in the industry about this “new” BPMS magic quadrant, Gartner has finally published their magic quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites (iBPMS). Having had my fingers slapped in the past for publishing excerpts (which should be considered fair use), I won’t ruin the [...]
Also tagged pegaThe next presentation was from David Carpenter, Director of BPM at Archstone, a residential apartment investor and operator with about 2,600 employees. One of their main challenges was a high employee turnover rate, and the necessity to reduce the learning curve for new people. They wanted to move away from paper-based forms and manual workflow [...]
Also tagged appianworld, archstone, david carpenterMalcolm Ross, Director of Product Management and someone who I once referred to as an über demo god, gave us an update on the Appian product. He started with their product development philosophy: flexibility ease of use comprehensive build for the future, which is how they position their web-based AJAX process modeler, in contrast with [...]
Also tagged appianworld, malcolm rossThree days ago, I was in Rome — original home of the Roman Forum and the Appian Way — and now I’m at Appian Forum: Appian‘s first user conference. Samir Gulati, VP of Marketing, delivered some short opening remarks including the “Sandy Kemsley Conference Checklist”, showing how they measured up on my basic requirements for [...]
Also tagged appianworld, connie moore, samir gulatiI’ve been sticking close to home for the summer, but my fall lineup is about to begin. So far, I’m definitely attending the following: Business Objects Influencer Summit and SAP SME Day, August 12-13, Boston. This is an analyst/press event, not a public conference, but I’ll be blogging from there. International Conference on BPM, September [...]
Also tagged appianworld, BPMThinkTank, business rules forum, BusinessRulesForum, Gartner, GartnerBPM, IntlBPM, OMG, SAP, sapphireI really dislike that expression, but it’s commonly recognized to mean that a company is using its own products to run its own business. I believe that a lot of BPM vendors do use their own products in some way, but how much? Are they just playing around with expense approvals, or have they drunk [...]
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