A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend a Data Scientist series event in London sponsored by EMC/Greenplum. Its aim was to bring like-minded people together to explore the topic of creating competitive advantage with Big Data analytics. As a very well-attended event it also provided a perfect opportunity to discuss the role [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Helena Schwenk
In the last few weeks we’ve published a series of short profile reports that explore the current offerings and strategy regarding delivering BPM capabilities through cloud-based services from a selection of BPM vendors. The reports form a series focused on offerings from the vendor community actively offering cloud-based BPM capabilities, and are designed to act [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Beth Barling
Alpine Data Labs is a small start-up company focused on making predictive analytics easier to use and deploy on Big Data platforms. This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple “ten questions” format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and services. We use this [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by admin
Fluxicon is a commercial spin-off from process mining research carried out at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The company is developing process mining tools that require as little specialist knowledge as possible to use. This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple “ten question” format, which we designed to provide a concise but [...]
Posted on Monday, February 27, 2012 by admin
When OpenText made acquisitions of Metastorm and Global360 within 6 months of each other last year, I blogged: In the medium term … I hope Open Text will communicate a credible plan that supports existing customers of Metastorm and Global 360 while showing they can also craft a vision for how something bigger and better [...]
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Earlier today Amazon announced the launch of its Simple Workflow service (SWF) in beta. The announcement (and the attendant – and detailed – blog) explain that Amazon Simple Workflow coordinates the flow of synchronous or asynchronous tasks (logical application steps) so that you can focus on your business and your application instead of having to [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Although it’s not a formal part of the BPM research programme I set out in advance at the end of last year, in the past few weeks I’ve been drawn into looking in some detail at the emerging process mining space. Process mining has been an active academic research space for some years (and eminent [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 by Neil Ward-Dutton
‘BPM in the cloud’ is one of the key themes of our 2012 BPM industry research programme, and as a part of that we’ve just published a short online survey that’s designed to help us quickly take the pulse of what’s going on in this area. From my conversations with some of the principal providers [...]
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 by Neil Ward-Dutton
In the last five years social media has exploded into our consciousness and daily lives. Today the majority of businesses recognise the impact and influence of social media and have created their own social presence on platforms such as Facebook or Twitter. But many organisations are finding it difficult to not only keep track of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 by admin
As BPM initiatives have started to become mainstream concerns in industry, the ability of large consultancy and systems integration (CSI) providers to assist clients with new BPM-enabled projects and programmes has become increasingly important. This report is designed to help BPM adopters assess the existing capability and direction of Capgemini’s BPM business, highlighting its approach [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2012 by admin
