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The other day I got a business update from Sonoa Systems, sparked by the arrival at the company by Sam Ramji – former Senior Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft. Sam is now the VP of Strategy at Sonoa. As you can see in our report on Sonoa, the company is making significant inroads in [...]
Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 by adminWindows Azure : Windows Azure Platform Launch Update If you're in at the start with the commercial version of the platform, you get the first month for free (tags: azure cloud_computing microsoft launch) What Comes First: the Process Improvement Methodology or the BPM Software? – ebizQ Forum Interesting responses to this question – most revealing [...]
Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 by admin350,000,000 reasons why process is important > Ian Gotts – speaker, author, entrepreneur > blog Unbelievable situation – UK Govt Dept defends fundamentally flawed project delivery by integrator, claiming "we just didn't specify it right". Surely partnership should count for something? (tags: requirements trust process_improvement systems_integrators)
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009 by adminEarlier this week we published the second part of a two-part report focused on “Event-driven BPM” – in other words, the possibilities associated with combining event processing technology with your BPM initiative. This second part focuses on what you can do to get started, how to think about the technology pieces you might need, and [...]
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 by adminWilliam Vambenepe — Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS Gets a little deep on the tech, but a great analysis of the potential risks of supplier patching in different kinds of Cloud environment. (tags: cloud_computing itil risks app_containers) Value-Driven IT: Enterprise Architecture is Broken This is an old [...]
Posted on Friday, October 23, 2009 by adminEarlier this week the company formerly known as Ascentn announced that it had changed its name to AgilePoint – taking the brand used for its core BPM Suite product. This is a smart move for the company. The AgilePoint BPMS (which we’ll be publishing an assessment of in the coming weeks) is a well-rounded offering [...]
Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 by adminSome great news today from online communities vendor Jive software, coupling its funding success with strong Q3 2009 revenue growth – its quarterly revenues were up 100% on the same quarter last year (following 80% year-on-year growth in Q2 2009). Jive is an interesting player that manages to bridge the gap – both in terms [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 by Angela AshendenLast week I spent three days in Manhattan, attending the International Association of Software Architects (IASA)’s IT Architecture Regional Conference (ITARC) in NY. That’s a long time for me to be anywhere – so why did I do it? The first answer is the speaker lineup – there were keynotes from Len Bass of Carnegie-Mellon’s [...]
Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009 by adminGoogle Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication A nice bit of analysis from TechCrunch on what makes Google Wave interesting. I'm with MG Siegler on this – Wave's combining of email ("passive") and instant messaging ("aggressive" or "active") ways of communicating seems to fit more naturally with the way we want to use these [...]
Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 by Angela AshendenIBM Press room – 2009-10-05 IBM Launches Secure, Reliable Cloud Email Service for $3 per User – United States IBM finally launches its webmail service iNotes, based on the Outblaze technology it acquired earlier this year. The company has been up front about its challenge to Google Apps with this service.. I will be blogging [...]
Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2009 by Angela Ashenden
