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 AshendenA couple of days ago I had an update call with Mindjet, the company that is best known for its mind mapping client application, Mind Manager. Historically, I’ve always found it slightly awkward to position the company in the broader collaboration software market that I follow, largely because, while Mind Manager is a productivity tool, [...]
Posted on Friday, December 16, 2011 by Angela AshendenYesterday 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-DuttonIf you’re a BPM professional, here’s something you won’t want to miss. This morning we launched a brand new MWD Insights event on the topic of Adaptive Case Management, heralded by some as a new, more dynamic and flexible approach to business process management. Much of the current commentary on the topic pitches ACM and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 by Beth BarlingAt a recent analyst day in Hursley Labs, IBM outlined its current and future plans for Big Data. The company clearly sees a huge business opportunity in this market by helping customers extract value from new, complex and voluminous data sources to uncover deeper and richer insights that have previously not been possible before. However, [...]
Posted on Friday, September 30, 2011 by Helena SchwenkI’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-DuttonAt its recent Business Analytics Summit, IBM dedicated a session stream to its social media analytics platform Cognos Consumer Insights, an offering that allows organisations to gain a deeper view on consumer attitudes and brand preferences. Given the hype and resulting confusion currently surrounding social media and its value to marketers this was a useful [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 by Helena SchwenkLast week I made my annual 24-hour flying visit to the US east coast and the Progress Software analyst day. Last year CEO Rick Reidy laid out plans to create a $1billion company by bringing together a number of its brands (particularly Savvion, Actional, Apama) together under the concept of ‘Operational Responsiveness’ through ‘Responsive Process [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week I visited the rather warmer climes of Orlando, Florida, for IBM Lotus’ annual customer and partner event, Lotusphere. After two and a half days of sessions and 1-to-1′s, when pulling together my thoughts about the key messages from the event (both those actively presented and those implicitly received), my overriding impression was that [...]
Posted on Monday, February 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenLater this month, IBM is releasing the next version of its social collaboration product, Lotus Connections. When it was first launched in June 2007, Connections provided a sort of electric shock for the enterprise collaboration software market, showing that an industry giant can indeed be innovative and market defining, and of course in the three [...]
Posted on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
