A thread at ebizQ this week led me over to a nice post by Rashid Khan, founder and former CEO of Ultimus: “The Hype about Simulation and Optimization“. To summarise, Dr Khan’s position is that there is value in process simulation, but that it’s not a panacea and that the technology – particularly in the [...]
Posted on Friday, January 29, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonCisco Accelerates Intercompany Collaboration With Telepresence Interoperability -> Cisco News Good to see Cisco leading the march for interoperability in this area, even if it is a proprietary protocol. It will be interesting to see how quickly this has an effect in the market place in terms of cross-boundary telepresence integration, and hopefully marks the [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 by Angela AshendenThe Total CIO: Strategic Decision Making Trumps The Alternative Another great post about IT governance / EA. Particulary good because it acknowledges that nothing is perfect and problems will occur; but that's no excuse not to try to put the right decision-making frameworks in place. (tags: governance ea cio) IBM presents the bigger picture at [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 by adminLinear Thinking and the CIO Great story used here to show how IT Governance can be badly implemented. Super quote: "Stop doing what you did last year. Stop doing what you did yesterday. It won’t work tomorrow…heck…it didn’t work yesterday." Comments really insightful too. (tags: governance practice alignment) Thoughtful Programmer: Bonitasoft – BPM Game Changer? [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by adminToday, one of the gradually-evaporating pool of specialist BPM technology providers – Appian – shared some details of its trading in 2009. We’d already seen revenue increases of 20-30% from some of the other pure-play vendors, but Appian’s figures today do yet more to demonstrate the power of BPM discipline, and the specialised technology that [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonIBM’s Lotus division’s user, developer and partner conference, Lotusphere, has long been an opportunity for the company to make lots of noise about its successes and provide some direction in terms of where the portfolio is going next. Now in its 17th year, themes in recent years have centred on social software and cloud-based services, [...]
Posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 by Angela AshendenIn the past couple of days I’ve read a couple of articles (“IT can’t be a service provider and a partner too” and “Run IT as a business – why that’s a train wreck waiting to happen“) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to “run IT as a business” leads you down [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonIn a social software update for analysts last week, IBM provided a preview of some of the news and updates it is planningto deliver at this year’s Lotusphere event, which takes place next week. And it was particularly interesting to see that, once again, Lotus Connections is playing a central role in the company’s efforts [...]
Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by Angela AshendenProgress Software announced today that it has acquired Savvion, one of the (slightly diminishing) pool of specialist independent BPM technology suppliers. The acquisition comes hot on the heels of IBM’s acquisition of Lombardi, and it’s likely that the two acquisitions are in part related: Savvion, like Lombardi, was venture-funded and it would be no surprise [...]
Posted on Monday, January 11, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonAfter an extremely positive 2009 in which Jive Software carried out a successful rebranding and repackaging of its core Social Business Platform, as well as securing an additional $12 million in Series B funding, the company is clearly determined to carry this momentum forward into 2010 with yesterday’s announcement of its acquisition of social media [...]
Posted on Friday, January 8, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
