This week, I attended IBM’s Lotusphere 2012, IBM’s annual customer and partner event which showcases the latest products and strategy in the area of collaboration. Like last year, “social business” was squarely at the centre of things, although there was a marked difference between the way the company positioned its social message this time when [...]
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 by Angela AshendenHaving 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-DuttonYesterday, my colleague Helena Schwenk and I attended Cloudforce London 2011, Salesforce.com’s regional customer and partner event. While a much smaller affair than the company’s main San Francisco conference, the London event has become increasingly popular – with demand for attendance meaning that it had to extend to a second day (today) this year, as [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Angela AshendenEarlier this week I spoke at IRM’s BPM Conference Europe 2010 in London (along with many others, including Sandy Kemsley). This is a conference heavy on real-world implementation stories and comparatively lighter on industry trends and vision, and for that reason it’s always really interesting to explore. As usual, Sandy has already written up some [...]
Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonJust a quick note to say that I’m honoured to have been asked to provide a keynote presentation at the upcoming CloudSlam ’10 virtual conference being held from March 23-25. My presentation is scheduled for 11am ET / 8am PT on March 23rd and is titled “Cloud forecasting: models, predictions, pitfalls and planning”. More details [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week I spent a couple of days in London, at IRM’s 2008 Business Process Management Conference Europe, where I took in most of the sessions and also ran a session myself. I’ve been meaning to do a quick write-up of what I came across for a few days… so here it is. I think [...]
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