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Coming soon – New MWD Collaboration Continuous Advisory Service

The countdown has now begun to the launch of our new Collaboration Continuous Advisory Service, which follows hot on the heals of our BPM Continuous Advisory Service, which launched officially in May. For those of you familiar with the BPM service, the Collaboration service will follow a similar format, with a range of content including: Strategic Insight [...]

Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 by

Speaking at BPM Conference Europe 2008

I recently received confirmation that I’ve been accepted as a speaker at IRM’s Business Process Management Conference Europe 2008, which will be staged 29 September to 1 October in London. I’m planning on discussing the findings of the enterprise research study we’re just in the process of completing: it looks like I’ll have some really [...]

Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 by

IBM coverage, finally

After months of tweaking and review, our coverage of IBM’s BPM technology offering is now live. The delay is mostly due to the breadth of IBM’s portfolio (the assessment report runs to 33 pages, whereas most of the others come in around 20 pages) – combined with the fact that, just as we were about [...]

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by

A comprehensive analysis of IBM's BPM Suite

After months of tweaking and review, our coverage of IBM’s BPM technology offering is now live. It joins our coverage of Appian, BEA (we’re keeping an eye on this, of course, and will update it as soon as is practical), Lombardi, Software AG and TIBCO. We’ve been working on this assessment since the autumn of [...]

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by

Two new Guest Pass BPM reports: RunMyProcess and Colosa

We just published two new “On The Radar” reports on process technology vendors in our “Guest Pass” research library. Both vendors are taking an approach that’s outside the mainstream, and both are focusing primarily on opportunities with small-to-medium businesses. RunMyProcess provides a process design and deployment platform that’s been designed up-front to be delivered through [...]

Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008 by

An interesting snippet from Lombardi's user conference

My fellow BPM analyst Sandy Kemsley attended Lombardi’s Driven user conference this week, which is handy – she’s great at blogging about all the sessions she attends, and provides great detail. I couldn’t attend the conference, so reading Sandy’s blog entries was a nice way to keep in touch with goings-on there. This post is [...]

Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008 by

Compuware "2.0" – passion or mis-step?

Just to let you know that as well as publishing two new BPM reports in the last couple of days, we’ve got another new report in our library too. Our new analyst guru Bola Rotibi just finalised her second MWD report, looking at Compuware’s recent “Compuware 2.0″ relaunch. Is it a welcome display of passion [...]

Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008 by

Two new BPM reports

We just published two new “On The Radar” reports on business process technology vendors in our open “Guest Pass” research library. Both vendors are taking an approach that’s outside the mainstream, and both are focusing primarily on opportunities with small-to-medium businesses. RunMyProcess provides a process design and deployment platform that’s been designed up-front to be [...]

Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008 by

Links for 2008-06-16 [del.icio.us]

IT|Redux – Monolab|Incubator Ismael, could you set one of these up in London please? :-) IdentityBlog – Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer Kim Cameron muses on the interplay between digital identity and the tendency of data about us to be aggregated. There is more to come from Kim on this and [...]

Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 by

Embarcadero rescues CodeGear

In our most recent report, our new analyst Bola Rotibi looks at Embarcadero’s recent acquisition of CodeGear (the Borland subsidiary that it’s been trying to offload for many months) – and asks: has Embarcadero made a smart move or a stupid one, and what does it mean for organisations looking at investing in development tools? [...]

Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 by