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Appian's Anywhere update

Belatedly (actually about 6 weeks belatedly) I thought I’d post a quick analysis of Appian’s revised Anywhere offering, which was expanded on March 9th. Appian has been offering a version of Appian Anywhere since February 2007, but availability was limited – in that you couldn’t just “sign up and go”. The revised offering unlocks the [...]

Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 by

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A quick take on Oracle and Sun

Earlier this year IBM (and reportedly) HP both took Sun Microsystems out for first dates but neither decided to take things any further (though IBM arguably got to second base). Now it seems Oracle is prepared to go the whole way with the iconic dot.com technology brand. Are we looking at a beautiful wedding on [...]

Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 by

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Multi Headed Chicken Syndrome – Oliver Marks Oliver Marks discusses the conflict between departmental and strategic investment in collaboration and Enterprise 2.0.

Posted on Friday, April 17, 2009 by

Is there room for architects and architecture in BPM?

With much of the early development in the Business Process Management (BPM) market being driven by technology vendors selling products for one-off departmental projects to line-of-business heads, and with IT stakeholders often being brought in only after the deal is done, lately we’ve been wondering – now that there’s no doubt that BPM is becoming [...]

Posted on Thursday, April 9, 2009 by

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Progress Software – getting past "Who"?

A couple of months back I had a brief Twitter exchange with David Bressler of Progress Software (@djbressler), following a comment I’d seen from Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz) at Progress’ analyst day regarding the lack of brand awareness that the company has out there in industry. What I said was: “Progress is a bit like Unilever [...]

Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by