What follows is my podcast with Jon Pyke, the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Cordys. Jon and I got a chance to meet up at the Gartner BPM summit, and Jon told me all these great things going on with Cordys, and I thought to myself, That would make a great podcast. So here it is.
Listen to or download the 5:10 podcast below:
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First of all, why don't you tell me some of these exciting new developments with Cordys and Business Process Management.
Yes, sure. Well, we announced three new things at the Gartner show and subsequently at our user conference in Holland just recently. And I covered three, I think, unique positioning propositions. The first one of these is a thing we called the Business Process Boardroom is a SaaS-based modeling environment where you can build out using BPM and technology.
You can build out your process, add your user interfaces and your KPI's, all kind of over-the-web on a subscription-based service and then when you're ready to execute, they're there to execute. So that was the first one. You can find that at www.processboardroom.com. The second one is a new version of the Cordys Business Operation's platform BOP4 as we call it.
And that's got some exciting new capabilities in there, the concept we call Total BPM, which is bringing together both the integration and the human side of process. We have a thing called the Mashups Enterprise, which is a virtualization of the desktop, accessible from anywhere. And then finally, a key point of that is the collaborative workspace while we bridge that gap between business and IT.
So that's all exciting. And then the final announcement was that of bringing The Process Factory to fruition. The Process Factory a completely fast-based environment where you build Mashup, which we call MashApp Applications in a process century world. Again, totally web-based available as a Software-as-a-Service. And as part of that announcement, we come up with this concept called MashApps09 which a competition that's open to all where you can come to www.theprocessfactory.com, build out your MashApp applications and processes and submit them to a competition which will be judged next Fall, 12 months from now. It's the next Cordys User Group Meeting.
Sounds very interesting. Now, imagining a company listening to this, is getting a little tired of reading about all this economic bad news. How will this help a company in today's tough times?
Well, this is a key thing really. Why would you go out and kind of try to rip and replace everything you got in place in these financial times? The buyer kind of going down the business process root or going down the Cordys root with the capabilities we got around the delivery of business services in a totally decoupled way, it means you can take your existing infrastructure and kind of repurpose it and repurpose that data to deliver new applications.
And it's going to make organizations far more flexible by being able to kind of flex the business process one second before the transaction takes place and be able to respond to the changing market environments without having to kind of drill down into your infrastructure, pull stuff out and kind of start again from scratch. So it really is a way of being able to plug and play, re-engineer into your organization without changing your base infrastructure.
Excellent. Now what do you see for the future of Business Process Management and Cordys?
It's bright, isn't it. I mean, as you know, I've been involved in the BPM work/space for quite some significant time. And I think, the things I've seen and the things I've looked at, and the products I looked at over the years, is all coming to this point now where products like Cordys and the Business Operations platform are being able to finally deliver on that vision that kind of thing we set out to do all those years ago that the Cordys product being kind of totally web services based, event driven, and kind of all in a single combined stack means that some Business Process Management is being put back into the hands of users.
And one of the key developments, I guess, is this ability to bridge that gap and let the business and the IT folks kind of come together in a single environment to map out the processes, understand how those processes work, visualize how those process and go forward with a common language. I think those are some of the key things that kind of manifest in themselves in the technology today.
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