The other day I read a post from David Norfolk (“The MDM tarpit“) which generated some lively comment. You can read the post yourself, but to briefly summarise, David highlighted a view that Master Data Management (MDM) should really be redundant – the need for MDM is really a reflection of poor architecture or poor [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 by admin
Intalio|Cloud Note the liberal use of MWD’s Cloud Computing value model in this pitch … nice to see it referenced by Intalio! (tags: cloud_computing value model) Business Process Management (BPM) – Business Architect Job Description Very interesting attempt to define what a BA might do and where they might fit. Begs the question though – [...]
Posted on Saturday, August 15, 2009 by admin
As is so often the case, I came to Gartner’s exposition of “emergent architecture” through reading a post from the excellent Todd Biske. As my co-authors on “The Technology Garden” will still remember, I’m a real bore when it comes to EA and its role and I’m a sucker for getting involved in EA conversations… [...]
Posted on Friday, August 14, 2009 by admin
Over at her column2 blog, independent BPM consultant (and ace blogger) Sandy Kemsley stirred up some interesting debate with a post about Software AG’s AlignSpace community (which I also blogged about here btw). The debate on Sandy’s blog centres around the value of “collaborative BPM” or “social BPM” – that is, the use of software [...]
Posted on Friday, August 14, 2009 by admin
Process for the Enterprise » Blog Archive » Process Applications – the new Black? Interesting spots from Scott Francis of BP3 (tags: bpm applications) Column 2 : AlignSpace social BPM community Sandy Kemsley on AlignSpace. Also see MWD’s BPM blog (tags: softwareag collaboration bpm saas) Tibco shares soar after report on possible buyout – Yahoo! [...]
Posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 by admin
Premier Foods cooks up IT transformation – 06 Aug 2009 – Computing Nice anecdotes on challenges of IT application portfolio rationalisation and business process improvement in a fast-changing environment (tags: bpm portfolio_management change_management story)
Posted on Friday, August 7, 2009 by admin
Alongside the latest updates to our vendor capability reports, we are pleased to announce an updated version of our online vendor comparison tool (available to advisory customers only). Eight of the nine existing vendors in the tool have been updated against our refreshed scoring model, and two new vendors have also been added – Yammer [...]
Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 by Angela Ashenden
Wow what a busy month July has been! Over the last few weeks, we have seen a veritable plethora of new and updated reports published to the MWD collaboration advisory service, just in time for you to take a look at before the August break. We’ve updated three of our vendor capability assessment reports – [...]
Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 by Angela Ashenden