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Blueprint 2010 release takes inspiration from Chatter
Friday, July 9, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
A couple of days ago the June 2010 release of IBM BPM Blueprint went live, and it’s interesting to see this Social BPM trailblazer take inspiration from another corner of the SaaS/social software world – Salesforce.com’s Chatter. (You can read Angela’s take on Chatter here).
Specifically there’s now a capability that allows any user to ‘follow’ any object in Blueprint. That could be a project, a process, an activity, a piece of data… any changes made to that object will then be highlighted in your own activity stream so you can keep track of everything you’re interested in. This mirrors one of the most interesting aspects of Chatter, which allows Salesforce users to receive notifications from applications, data sources, documents and so on – all integrated into one activity feed with notifications from team-mates.
This is one further small sign that convergence between collaboration tools, social software and BPM is gathering pace: expect to see more and more of this kind of thing in the coming months.
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Posted in BPM, Collaboration