An article from BNet that I had come across few months ago presented findings from a Nielson survey on how Social Media networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc broke down by age. The data was very interesting because the more active users – comprising of over two thirds of the total number users – came from upwards of 25 years of age. Last week I chanced on a comprehensive report from another of Nielson’s studies that reveals more specific demographic…
A ‘life-changing’ event that occurred sometime late February has beamed me to CT, and has had me completely off my blog, practically cutting me off from all my friends on Twitter and in general the #bpm fraternity. The event? A BPM project! So now you know it wasn’t just to me that it was a life-changing event! BPM Rocks!
BPM Product Design Matters…
Scott just made this seemingly peripheral observation on BPM products in his post about how design is going to matter in BPM this decade and puts forth a rather strong argument in favour of better design. It is peripheral – arguably so, I might add – because to a large extent although design does work in favour of product decisions, it really doesn’t always work as a big plus. Especially when you consider (much as you’d like to believe BPM…
So it appears we really are pulling out of the recession – albeit cautiously. A new release by IDC says, “there are plenty of positive signs in the market index – the stock market and U.S. economic forecasts are up, inflation remains under control, and even U.S. unemployment appears to have hit bottom," Interestingly, this release also brings up the fact that penalties of not spending are growing each month, “in costs to support older equipment and software, and in…
Writing code is art. It is creativity. It is being creator. It is being Yehudi Menuhin, standing in front of a hundred artists playing different instruments making different sounds, yet purposefully orchestrating them, fusing them, blending them all into sound that transforms to reach your ears as brilliant music. The greatness then lies not in their ability to play an instrument or yours of conducting a hundred artists but in making them achieve the effect of your audience losing a…
Been working on Intalio over the past few weeks – a great tool for sure. Some features are very intuitive, but others do take time to get comfortable with. The forums have some useful tips & some screencasts. Does not look like there is any documentation though – Intalio offers their own training workshops conducted in different cities across the world, but not as frequent or accessible as one would expect. It will be good to see some real documentation…
The story of BPM got more exciting this year as the recession hit the peak – almost all mainstream BPM vendors posted impressive results. As the year comes to a close the news of Lombardi being acquired by IBM has pushed up the excitement around BPM further and there’s been a tremendous buzz about this announcement. 2010 is going to be a very important year for BPM and is likely to be marked by increase in market size, hard…
IBM’s Lombardi Acquisition – Will there Be A Shuffle In The BPMS Market!?
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….
IT priorities, Return on Investment from #bpm and the CEO
The recession may have started to ease up, but the pressure on CEOs to get more competitive and drive growth will continue. Alongside that, the need to keep a closer watch on expenditure is likely to also continue for sometime. This is particularly true about IT investments – something that took quite a big hit in 2009. According to Gartner, IT spending is forecast to a 5.2% decrease from 2008 spending of $3.4 trillion and is expected to return to…
Salesforce.com’s announcement of the launch of Chatter, an enterprise networking platform has got me quite excited. It is a very nicely blended-in social media features extension to salesforce.com. Considering the possibilities that it holds, I would even go to the extent of saying this is bound to become something of a landmark of sorts in what I think is arguably the oldest challenge to organizations – that of improving sales force effectiveness. To quote from Sameer Patel’s review of…
IBM #SWUIN
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…
Don’t Rush Me!
Just as I was winding up and getting ready to call it a long night, I see this laugh-out-loud funny post from Geek & Poke – “what if MS had invented Twitter” Twitter aside, I was laughing out loud over the jibe on MS, my mind at the same time throbbing with the recollection of a very dark, unproductive phase of my life – the week I brought home a new HP laptop. With Vista Home Basic pre-loaded. Right. Now…
If you are a BPM professional, you know engagements with customers can be really different. In fact you know they need to be really different compared to a traditional App Dev SDLC. The success of any BPM project would depend on how well concerned teams and service provider understand this. The differences may vary by the basic objectives of the BPM initiative. What are the common top-three key differences according to you for a generic case?
There’s a lot of excitement over at The Gartner BPM Summit and some very interesting questions and thoughts are being exchanged. Since the event began, some of those have been coming out already through tweets and blogs. Sandy, as usual, has been live-blogging and that’s been a great gift to people like me who couldn’t be there in person. James Taylor has also been providing updates. Following blogs from these great people and backchannels for the Summit, seems like the…
Emerging from one era, into another…
Even as we begin to hear about the easing up of the recessionary phase, it is not difficult to see that things are not going to be the same as they were before. And one of the biggest impacts this recession is likely to have is not in our pockets, but in our minds. Whether it is you or your organization, the biggest effect may well be the shift in thinking that this recession has brought about. And it does…