Over the years I’ve been part of many conversations that revolve around how ‘BPM’ is not the same as ‘BPMN’ (in the context of process automation). The point consistently made is that even when you’re tackling work improvement scenarios that are suitable for modelling with BPMN (i.e. scenarios where the structure of work can be [...]
Posted on Friday, February 3, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonElement8 Software is a technology startup that offers a software platform called xpoint which helps customers deliver business change projects and programmes. 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 Monday, January 23, 2012 by adminEver since I read Geoffrey Moore’s Future of IT paper introducing the concept of systems of engagement (published last year), I’ve had a slight uneasiness about the ongoing discourse. For a long time it was nothing I could put my finger on, but in some recent conversations about how technology can improve business agility, I [...]
Posted on Friday, January 13, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonJust before Christmas, TIBCO released its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results for 2011 (the intervening holiday is why I haven’t blogged about it until now). While companies like Oracle struggle to deliver performance, TIBCO continues to march relentlessly on. And although it’s perhaps tempting (certainly in comparison to behemoths like Oracle) to paint TIBCO as [...]
Posted on Friday, January 6, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonOver the past few days a very timely discussion has been sloshing to and fro on ebizQ, based around the question: “Is it a mistake to think a BPMS will improve your processes?” Our experience is that driving success with BPM techniques and technologies requires a holistic approach to capability improvement – you have to [...]
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonToday document capture specialist Kofax announced its acquisition of UK-based BPM and case management technology vendor Singularity. This comes on the heels of Lexmark’s acquisition of Dutch BPM technology vendor Pallas Athena – another vendor focused on imaging and document management applications moving ‘sideways’ to capture potential customer interest in broader process improvement projects. In [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonProgress Software announced today its acquisition of Corticon, the last remaining pure-play business rules management (BRM) technology provider of any size. Terms were not disclosed, but the company had recently been on a strong growth path – so it’s likely Progress paid a significant premium [we'll probably never know, of course]. Progress is pitching Corticon [...]
Posted on Monday, December 5, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonIn last year’s BPM outlook, we predicted that 2011 would be a year when the progress of BPM into mainstream industry adoption would continue apace – and that has certainly come to pass. We also highlighted that we expected a very large proportion of BPM project interest to come from business areas focused on customer [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonThis post was written with additional insights from Angela Ashenden, MWD’s lead Collaboration analyst – thanks Angela! Yesterday I came across this really thorough post on the Enterprise 2.0 blog by Cecil Dijoux, trying to pick apart the current state of play regarding the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 concepts and see what can be learned [...]
Posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday I spent the morning at IBM’s London Southbank offices, attending a “Business Agility Executive Forum” – one event in a series being held around the world in the coming weeks to help promote IBM’s fall 2011 set of WebSphere related product launches. A lot of the event content covered ground I’d already explored at [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
