I’ve been a little slow in blogging about what I learned at IBM IMPACT (#ibmimpact) this year… apologies if you’ve been waiting for pearls of wisdom from me! ;-) I blame a big client workload. Damn those clients. So it’s a couple of weeks now since IMPACT (at least for me – I was only [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonIf you take a look at Progress Software’s home page on the web today, you’ll see the following four things highlighted (along with a blog post from CTO John Bates): the launch of Responsive Process Management (RPM) 2.2 the results of a ‘BPM smackdown’ analysis that placed Savvion in a leading spot a case study [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonThis morning sees the start of PEX Week Europe 2012, a event for process excellence professionals held at the London Film Museum in the UK. The week’s event starts with a pre-summit workshop day focused on Business Process Management – which this year is co-led by MWD’s Neil Ward-Dutton, alongside Forrester’s Derek Miers – and [...]
Posted on Monday, April 23, 2012 by Beth BarlingAppian – one of the leading independent BPM technology specialist providers – used its annual customer conference earlier this week to significant effect: highlighting recent growth, giving customers and prospects opportunities to learn from each other, and unveiling its next major product release. What it lacked in glitz it made up for in enthusiasm. Appian [...]
Posted on Friday, April 20, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonOver the past few weeks I’ve come across a few conversations, both online and offline, that celebrate, or commiserate, BPM’s “death”. Certainly, it’s possible to find evidence that suggests that there’s less interest in something specifically called BPM. A number of technology vendors that have previously put all their effort behind positioning themselves as BPM [...]
Posted on Friday, March 30, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonA couple of weeks ago I blogged about one of the boring, but important, design considerations that plays a role in delivering the promise of BPM technology: separation of concerns. In this post, I want to highlight its equally unsexy-but-important sibling: support for managed change in process applications. A big part of the whole point [...]
Posted on Friday, March 2, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonWhen 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-DuttonEarlier 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-DuttonAlthough 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
