Today at the Gartner BPM Summit in beautiful and talented Las Vegas (where more than one person canceled a meeting this morning due to a late night at the Flamingo Hotel's Blackjack tables), I had a great meeting with HandySoft's Bruce Knudson.
Bruce and I talked about the work HandySoft is doing in the government sector, which made me recall my days covering Pentagon's activities for National Defense Magazine, and my subsequent association with the Association for Enterprise Integration, an industry group that provides a framework for collaboration between government and industry.
(The DoD CIO, as well as many other defense agencies, have turned to AFEI to be its conduit for policy and strategy input from industry through jointly chartered working groups. More recently the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation has requested a partnership with AFEI for the purpose of garnering industry input on transforming DoD business operations. AFEI working groups formed under these partnerships provide the opportunity for industry to influence policy, shape the future and secure the nation.
The Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI) is a non-profit association for corporate and individual members whose common goal is to advance enterprise integration, network centric operations and world-class electronic business practices for industries and governments around the globe.)
But I digress. HandySoft is drinking some of the kool-aid that Gartner analysts are dishing out to BPM Vendors, and that's that BPM tools have to be 'more 2.0', i.e., more collaborative to be successful in the BPM market of the future. Garth seems to be taking that into consideration as he crafts his message about the tasking engine that HandySoft has built, which allows for iterative tasks to be collaborated upon between people. Garth reported that Gartner is saying that tasks additionally need to be flexible enough to be built upon across person-to-person networks, so he reports HandySoft will be working on that too in the near term.
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