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My colleague and ebizQ blogger Peter Schooff is writing today about a "storm worm" that is raining spam all over the internet. I don't know how things are going in big enterprises today, but here at ebizQ, we are being simply ravaged and pelted by spam of all types. And it's not like we don't update our virus protection devices, or that we don't invest in powerful enough tools to fight the kinds of spam we receive. But the fact seems to be, as agile as we are in fighting cyber criminals, the cyber criminals are agile too. They predict our moves and finds way around our fixes. For every patch we sew on, there's another hole they worm through.

Instead of retreating under our desks to wait for the spammers and their robots to just get bored and forget about us... I wonder instead, does my company have spam insurance? Have we considered that the power of worms and spam and viruses (oh my!) can take down email clients (for a whole workday, and maybe considerably more than that) and can result in the loss of business, and therefore, income?

We here at ebizQ spend all of our time discussing better ways to do business. Security is an important part of that, so much so that we even have a weekly newsletter called ebizQ security update, that you can sign up for here.

I even published a feature article yesterday by Ron O'Brien of Sophos, called Cyber Crime's Impact on Business. Please check it out here.

But in all honesty, I'm wondering if there is more than can be done. Can we put our heads together and think about security from an enterprise perspective? How do we deal with this onslaught of malware, worms, and viruses that threaten to take away significant portions of our livelihoods?

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This week, we bid farewell to David Ogren, the originator of BPM-Blog, and we welcome Kiran Garimella, who will be "BPM-blogging" in the same location.

David, a BPM thought leader who has hung his hat with several enterprise technology vendors; with Sun, with Fuego, and most recently with BEA after its acquisition of Fuego, has decided to take a break from blogging. We very much look forward to hearing more of him and from him in the future. For posterity, we want to leave David's blogging archives in place.

But starting today, we welcome Kiran Garimella, a VP of webMethods, as a new blogger on ebizQ. Kiran has a flair for the dramatic, having recently published a novel about BPM, called The Power of Process: Unleashing the Source of Competitive Advantage.

You will see what I mean about a flair for the dramatic when you read Kiran's first entry in BPM-Blog.

Happy reading!

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I've been grappling for awhile about how to manage the increasingly huge topic of open source technologies on ebizQ. Open source means many things to many people, and while enterprise open source is a specific area within open source, open source technologies alone also have relevance for our audience.

Today, our brand new BPM in Action blogger Michael Dortch weighed in on BPM and Open Source, so please check that out. He also linked to some really excellent RFG research on the topic, which is proprietary research worth megabux, so I recommend checking it out.

In the past, we also covered a fully open source ESB project called Mulesource, and I interviewed the head of that company, Dave Rosenberg.

We have covered IONA's Open Source Service Bus, Celtix Enterprise.

There was also a very interesting white paper published on our site last June by Jitterbit, called The Case for Open Source Integration.

ebizQ's resident Human Intteraction Management Keith Harrison-Broninski took on the open source topic, writing an incisive feature called "A Simple Way to Evaluate Open Source."

We've got a ways to go, and we are working increase our coverage of open source topics. We're even hoping to bring on an expert blogger on open source topics soon. Please email me with your ideas.

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As part of our BPM in Action site roll out, we're absolutely thrilled to welcome one of our favorite analysts, Michael Dortch, to the ebizQ blog roll. You might recognize Michael's name from his excellent and timely analysis from Robert Frances Group, which is, on occasion, shared with the ebizQ community.

But you won't have heard of Michael only from ebizQ. Michael's work has appeared in virtually every leading business computing publication, and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other business and technical publications. He began his career at Yankee Group in the 1970s and is the author of "The ABCs of Local Area Networks," (Sybex, Inc.). He's presently director of IT Infrastructure Management Strategies and Executive Editor for RFG.

I invite you to bookmark Michael's BPM in Action blog feed here, and read and comment on his inaugural entry!

Welcome, Michael!

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ebizQ is excited to launch the BPM in Action Virtual Conference/Resource Center, one place where you can find articles, podcasts, research, white papers, Webinars and more, on planning, building and managing Business Process Management solutions. The site will also feature a blog by BPM expert Michael Dortch. He's presently director of IT Infrastructure Management Strategies and Executive Editor for Robert Frances Group (RFG).

On March 6th and 7th, ebizQ will also host a two-day virtual conference on BPM in Action, which will feature case studies and panel discussions from those who have successfully implemented BPM solutions.

Click here to visit BPM in Action, and you can register now for the conference!

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Fantastic interview that Rich Seely (http://www.searchwebservices.com) did with James Bryce Clark, director of standards development for OASIS. He said he believes the next frontier for SOA standards will be e-commerce and dynamic content.

"In the second part of this Q&A interview with James Bryce Clark, director of standards development for OASIS, he talks about the future of semantic standards to make more intelligent use of the information organizations rely on for their business applications.

From Mr. Clark: "...At OASIS, you see OpenDocument, which is about content organization. The Universal Business Language (UBL) is coming out in a stable 2.0 version. There are also elaborations of it to cover various business cases. We just spent time with the Danish government, which is fulfilling its regulatory requirement for procurement and taxation, to make all invoices of a certain class use UBL. The business cases are there. Also banks involved in money transfers are using the data harmonization model to convert large amounts of electronic transaction traffic into forms that can be read by anybody. There's a tremendous move now to harmonize this information, and more importantly to give it some knowledge representation.

Read the full article here.

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News just in today from http://www.cio.com: Indian outsourcer Firstsource Solutions has acquired BPM, a health-care claims outsourcing company in Delaware, and its two wholly owned operating subsidiaries, MedPlans 2000 and MedPlans Partners.

Firstsource paid about US$40 million for BPM and its subsidiaries, according to informed sources. The company has not disclosed the acquisition price.

A number of Indian business process outsourcing companies and software services companies are acquiring companies in the United States and Europe, to get market access and to offer near-shore services to its customers.

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