That’s the title of a short online poll that we’re now running, in conjunction with CIO.co.uk – the online presence of CIO Magazine in the UK (the sister of the “big brother” CIO Magazine in the US). If you’re in a senior IT management role, we’d really like to hear about how the economic situation [...]
Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by admin
The other week I participated in a podcast interview with Avaya’s Gordon Loader, discussing Communication-Enabled Business Processes (CEBP). This is something that Avaya’s been talking about for some time, but it’s only recently that it’s taken a little more form as an idea. The confluence of trends in collaboration, unified communications and BPM is something [...]
Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by admin
Following the first Software Delivery InFocus podcast which we published in September, October sees Bola Rotibi’s second podcast episode, in which she discusses a series of questions focused on the topic of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Her guests are John Leegte (ICT Architect at the Dutch Tax and Customs department, Belastingdienst) and Steve Jones (Head [...]
Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by admin
Mike Jones – Microsoft: First News from the PDC: Windows LiveID Becoming an OpenID Provider Get a free OpenID with your Windows LiveID Burton Group: Microsoft and the SAML protocol come together in Geneva Gerry Gebel discusses the next iteration of ADFS, with a developer framework and CardSpace thrown in
Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 by admin
Just the other day Oracle released the 10gR3 (that’s v10.3 to people not familiar with Oracle version numbering) version of its BPM Suite, which represents the first significant step forward following Oracle’s acquisition of BEA earlier this year. We’ll be revisiting our current (and out-of-date) assessment of the former BEA BPM offering in the next [...]
Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 by admin
Following the publication of the BNP Paribas case study a few weeks ago, I’m pleased to anounce that we have added two new vendors - Cisco and Jive Software - to our online collaboration tool. We have also published corresponding reports on the vendors – a Vendor Capability Assessment for Cisco, and an On The Radar report on [...]
Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 by Angela Ashenden
Almost 12 months to the day after Microsoft launched its realtime messaging, presence and conferencing server, Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS), the company today announced the follow-up release of the product, referred to as “R2″. Currently in private beta testing (and due for public release in February 2009) , OCS R2 enhancements focus largely on [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 by admin
Last week I spent a couple of days in London, at IRM’s 2008 Business Process Management Conference Europe, where I took in most of the sessions and also ran a session myself. I’ve been meaning to do a quick write-up of what I came across for a few days… so here it is. I think [...]
Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 by admin
We are pleased to announce the publication of the first collaboration case study in our Collaboration Continuous Advisory Service! This Best Practice Insight report highlights French bank BNP Paribas’ collaboration strategy, and its implementation of informal, community-oriented social software from blueKiwi to complement its existing formal collaboration solutions. This will be the first of many case [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 by Angela Ashenden