News, Views & Reviews on Digital Process Automation, BPM, Performance Management & IT industry trends
When you are an enterprise spending top dollar on software products, you like to be assured that you are betting on products that satisfy a fairly logical and predictable check-list that assess the vendors products on maturity, stability, cost effectiveness, ability to deliver to the need and so on. For decades these have really been at the core of buyer expectations that software vendors have tried to talk to. And in a sense, most vendors have traditionally also built and…
I’ve just returned from a rather adventurous and eventful trip involving two important dots on Gartner’s magic quadrant for BPM. One is a tech behemoth interested in almost everything related to IT, and the other, a vendor that has a laser focus on BPM. The first dot is of course IBM and the other dot, allegedly the ‘best one’ on the quadrant, Appian. I am talking, of course, about IBM IMPACT at Las Vegas and AppianWorld at Washington D.C. Although…
It is about to become something of the past. That’s sad because it really is something from the future. Something that could have even shaped it. If you had a Wave account, you might agree with me. Google announced the end of the Wave project months ago, but last weeks mail from the Wave team was sad to read and if you have an account, am sure you felt the same way. The Google Wave project excited the imagination…
The news has really created quite a buzz and almost everyone who is following BPM is excited about this announcement. Why would IBM, an arguably formidable player in the BPM market in its own right, acquire a pure-play BPM product like Lombardi? Lombardi has reported record performance in recent years. Blueprint itself has worked up a good momentum around the cloud offering and has gathered thousands of customers. Compare this with BPM Blueworks that IBM had initiated earlier this year….
This years IBM event – Software Universe – was bigger with record participation of over 2500 and over 300 certifications as claimed by an official tweet from IBM (IBM also uses the occasion to offer certifications to interested software pros.) I had attended the last year’s event and since then, Although I have been looking forward to these two days at the event and had blocked my calendar 6 months in advance, I still had to miss the second day…
Registrations for the IBM Software Universe event organized annually have been announced. The event will be held at the Renaissance Convention Centre, Mumbai on November 4th and 5th. Software Universe is a buzzing two day affair filled with talks, presentations, demos and industry sessions. The sessions in the 2008 event were organized into various industry tracks – Manufacturing, Retail, BFSI, Telecom, and Media & Entertainment. These and two additional tracks covering IT services and General Business, were covered on Day…
Many BPM product vendors have announced impressive results and as Scott Francis mentions in this post, BPM companies have really started to crow about their growth despite the recession. While there’s a wee bit of understandable scepticism about the validity of those claims, they do tie-in to market outlook from months ago predicting a higher investment in technologies such as BPM that will help organizations minimise cost and improve efficiency. Jim Sinur in this insightful post titled Is BPM becoming…
Cutting cost is no more an option. It is a must-do that is high on the priority of every organization that wants to survive this slowdown. And no stone is left unturned to find ways to achieve that. Interestingly, this anxiety to cut costs will result in a business that IDC expects will grow to $42 billion by 2012. Or so it seems. Yes, we are talking about cloud computing. If you are wondering how this business of IT keeps…
I wrote this a day after Microsoft released its annual figures for 2008. But somehow haven’t found time to actually post it. Until today. For, today was a day that I will never forget. Today was a bitch. We have all been talking about the market slowdown, the global meltdown and all that, but today was the day that reality came up-close to my face – and planted a slap on it. It happened as I was walking out of…