TweetI’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 appian, business rules forum, OMG, SAPTweetAlthough I find it hard to believe that Frank Kenney and Daryl Plummer were hard at work all day on December 31st, that’s the publication date of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technologies. Software AG, which placed well in the leaders quadrant, has the report available for download. This is the first time [...]
Also taggedTweetIt’s the last company that I expected to be giving it away (for now), but Gartner is publishing podcasts as Gartner Voice. They cover a wide variety of topics so I won’t be listening to them all, but enough of them look interesting for me to add this to my iTunes feed. I also like [...]
Also taggedTweetAppian has a link to Gartner‘s newly-published report on BPMS selection criteria here (free registration required). Gartner has the 10 major areas of functionality used to develop the criteria listed as following: Human task support: Executing human-focused process steps Business process/policy modeling and simulation environment Pre-built frameworks, models, flows, rules and services Human interface support [...]
Also taggedTweetI’ve just finished viewing a webinar put on by Proforma that talks about building, using and managing an enterprise architecture, featuring David Ritter, Proforma’s VP of Enterprise Solutions. He came out of the EA group at United Airlines so really knows how this stuff works, which is a nice change from the usual vendor webinars [...]
Also taggedTweetI saw this Gartner article a while back about a “new” BPM definition, and was reminded of it when it hit BPM.com again this week. He turns the focus from the hard technical skills required for BPM to the soft social skills required: much as I have done in my own career over the past [...]
Also taggedTweetGartner recently issued a report entitled Business Process Management’s Success Hinges on Business-Led Initiatives, the abstract of which states “organizations that had the most-successful BPM initiatives spent more than 40 percent of the initial project time on process discovery.” This is newsworthy? Hands up if you still thought that IT could implement BPM without a [...]
Also taggedTweetFrom a recent presentation by Jim Sinur of Gartner comes their emerging view of what’s in a BPM suite (click for larger view): They believe, as I do, that BPM includes both human-facing and system-to-system capabilities.
Also taggedTweetAn oldie, but goodie from Yefim Natis, the Editor-in-Chief of Application Integration and Middleware for Gartner, June 2003: A business process is the essence of all business.
Also taggedTweetI watched a webinar earlier this week about BPM and compliance, a topic that I’ve been working on for a while, in which Global 360 announced their Active Compliance Framework (today’s Computer Business Review also reviewed their announcement). The speakers were from Doculabs and BWise, the latter of which has just partnered with Global 360 [...]
Also taggedTweetI don’t mean to be blogging just about Fuego these days, although since I’m in the middle of evaluating their product, I’m probably more attuned to stories about them. I found Gartner’s assessment of the recent Fuego/Plumtree OEM agreement interesting: Fuego’s original equipment manufacturer deal with Plumtree is the first strategic relationship between a business [...]
Also taggedTweetIf you’re new to the world of integration, EAI, SOA and all those other good things, you can tune into the ebizQ webinar Integration 101 – From Application Integration to SOA on Tuesday at noon Eastern: In this webinar, Roy Schulte, Vice President and Research Fellow in Gartner Inc., joins Lance Hill, webMethods Vice President [...]
Also taggedTweetI just received an email from a recently-graduated engineer in Germany, looking for advice on how to become a credible resource on BPM projects with only theoretical BPM knowledge and a lack of business knowledge — in other words, how to ramp up from being a newbie with a decent technical degree into an experienced [...]
Also taggedTweetAnother webinar going on right now, Gartner BPM Roundtable: Business Process Management Trends and Forecasts, hosted by Global 360 and featuring Jim Sinur of Gartner (yes, this turned out to be “webinar day”, I have a third one after this if I’m not burned out). The usual webinar format is the “expert” talks to his [...]
Also tagged CRMTweetThe Gartner webinar that I dropped in on yesterday had some interesting points about modelling and methodologies that started me thinking. First, on methodologies: it’s absolutely essential to have some best practices to lend structure to your BPM project. Don’t do this alone, get the help of someone like me (okay, it doesn’t have to [...]
Also taggedTweetI attended the The BPM Momentum: What’s Driving it? webinar today (not “what’s driving IT” as the host ebizQ erroneously labelled it, which has a much different meaning), featuring Jim Sinur of Gartner. Definitely worth catching the replay for Mr. Sinur’s comments on success factors for BPM projects and for his view of the market [...]
Also taggedTweetA press release this week from IBM announces that a preliminary Gartner report on application integration/middleware (AIM) and portal software has crowned IBM as the market leader based on 2004 licence revenue. Their figures put IBM’s share at around 37% of the worldwide market, with chief rivals BEA, Oracle and Microsoft trailing far behind at [...]
Also tagged IBMTweetAnother interesting lunchtime webinar today, “The Case for BPM”, this one featuring Janelle Hill, a VP & Research Lead from META Group (acquired by Gartner as of last week), and Gary Morgen, a VP from Citigroup. It was sponsored by TIBCO, but the first two speakers ran overtime and the poor TIBCO guy had to [...]
Also taggedTweetI just read about yet another analyst BPM workshop that claims to be “the definitive education on BPM”. Oh, puh-leeze. There is no such thing as a 2-day definitive education on a topic as broad as BPM, and besides, the analysts can’t even agree on the definition of BPM. I wrote a short course on [...]
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