The week after Progress’ Revolution customer event in Boston, I spent a few days in Vegas courtesy of TIBCO at its annual TUCON customer shindig. At one level, there are some interesting parallels to draw between Progress and TIBCO*: both vendors are ‘independent’ infrastructure software providers; both are currently pitching visions of responsiveness to their [...]
Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonHaving attended Progress Software’s analyst day in the spring, not much of the high-level announcements and presentations at last week’s Progress Revolution in Boston were new to me, as such. But when I attend customer events like these, it’s not really about new announcements; the more interesting and important thing is to listen to how [...]
Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonA quick update on my post from earlier this month BPM Centres of Excellence – valuable or vapour? – our BPM centres of excellence survey will be open for JUST ONE MORE WEEK, so now’s your chance to take part and make sure your view is counted! It should take you only a few minutes [...]
Posted on Sunday, September 25, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonI’ve had some research into the role that systems integrators and consultants play in BPM initiatives as a priority for quite a while now, but most of my interactions until now have been with small specialist firms (the kind of firms that also, until recently, have really made most of the running as value delivery [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday a flurry of tweets trumpeted the news: open-source BPM technology provider Bonitasoft had secured $11m of B-series funding in a round led by existing investors Auriga Partners and Ventech, together with Serena Capital. Bonitasoft has already impressed me with its focus and ability to deliver rapidly, including some nice user interface innovations – as [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonOne of the key themes of BPM research I’m working on in 2011 revolves around the idea of BPM Centres of Excellence (COEs). We’ve published a couple of case studies of companies which have implemented them and have interviewed many more, and I’ve also written a Strategic Insight report that aims to bring our understanding [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonIt might not be on the same scale as HP buying Autonomy, but today’s purchase of UK-based software vendor Nimbus Partners by TIBCO is still pretty important news in the BPM space. Nimbus, a UK-based provider of what might be described as a “process knowledge management” platform (my words, not Nimbus’) called Control is pretty [...]
Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonAfter a few months of research work, we’ve finally published a new Strategic Insights report looking at how organisations can take individual BPM project successes and scale them to develop BPM as an organisational competency – using a Centre of Excellence (COE). The report draws on existing published case study work we’ve done in the [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonI’m hardly hot of the press with this one, for which – apologies. (My initial reaction on Twitter came down to this). My excuse is that vendors never consult me on the timings of their acquisition announcements, and so sometimes it turns out I’m busy with other things ;-) So, having set out to purchase [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonOn our travels around conferences and on customer engagements, we’ve come across quite a few specialist BPM consultancies doing great work. Indeed, we’ve found that these specialist providers are often the crucial ingredients to project success while the larger “global” firms have been slow to grasp the BPM opportunity. With this in mind, we’ve been [...]
Posted on Friday, July 22, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
