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Silver vs Malik

Here smart chap Bruce Silver picks up one of my favourite bloggers, Microsoft’s Nick Malik, on a recent post on Nick’s view of how BPM technology has often been marketed. I’m not as extreme as Bruce on this, but I do think that Nick has oversimplified things way too much here. I don’t believe BPM [...]

Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2008 by

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BEA gets last laugh on Oracle app server | The Register Cynical but thorough stock-take of some of the Oracle-BEA integration pieces Yahoo looking to unleash its cloud computing infrastructure | Tech news blog – CNET News.com Yahoo! Says Me too!?

Posted on Sunday, July 6, 2008 by

The cultural consequences of process modelling

Readers of the general MWD blog will probably know by now that I frequently call out Nick Malik‘s posts as real thought-provokers. With Blame the Computer: a BPM Anti-Pattern, he’s done it again. Here, he shows how different approaches to modelling processes can perpetuate the troublesome cultural rift that can separate IT and business teams. [...]

Posted on Friday, July 4, 2008 by

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Salesforce chief brags of cloud for grown-ups | The Register Hmm, I think it’s time we really dug into how viable Force.com is as a platform for enterprise software development Why OpenID leads to Information Cards Kim Cameron explains how Information Cards can secure OpenID authentication to prevent phishing attacks. Information Card Foundation launched CNET [...]

Posted on Friday, July 4, 2008 by

Collaborative mind mapping

I don’t usually blog about individual briefings from vendors, but I’ve just had a fascinating briefing from Mindjet, a company which has developed an interactive, collaborative mind mapping solution based on its established personal mind mapping technology. Mindjet Connect allows multiple users to synchronously edit a central mind map, seeing what each other is editing [...]

Posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 by