BPM in Action: July 2008 Archives

BPM's place in the upcoming decade of corporate change

By Dennis Byron on July 31, 2008 3:00 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Lombardi Software of Austin TX briefed an analyst group on July 29 about the six months ended June 30, 2008. This was not an IT-Investment-Research-type briefing because Lombardi is still privately held. (But I am underlining privately because if the... Read More..

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HP and Intel, and Yahoo! – Oh, My! Talk About Your “Big Mash-Ups!”

By Michael Dortch on July 29, 2008 5:21 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Well, well, well. That would be one “well” each for Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo!, all three of which announced today plans to build a test bed for cloud computing that will span six data centers in three countries. The goals... Read More..

Categories: BPM, Business Knowledge Management, Current Events, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Lifecycle Management, Process Visibility, SOA, Software as a Service, The Big Mash-Up, current_events

SAP, other Ilog BPM users need to think twice about the IBM takeover

By Dennis Byron on July 28, 2008 10:38 AM 3 Vote 0 Votes

On July 21 when Appian went for venture funding for the first time, I said that it was rare that my IT Investment Research (see link to the right) work intersected with my business process management (BPM) blogging. But here... Read More..

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Back to BPM (for a bit, anyway): Appian Movin' On Up (Continued, sort-of...)

By Michael Dortch on July 25, 2008 4:53 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

Appian, one of the few remaining "pure-play" BPM vendors, just announced its first-ever venture investment – $10 million from Novak Biddle Venture Partners. I participated in a very interesting conversation among several other industry analysts, Matthew Calkins, Appian’s President and... Read More..

Categories: BPM, Business Knowledge Management, Current Events, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Lifecycle Management, Software as a Service, The Big Mash-Up, current_events

It's not intelligent process automation but it is intelligent and it is process automation

By Dennis Byron on July 25, 2008 1:45 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes

On July 23, for my investment research work, I analyzed the Metastorm's S-1. I said I thought the company was incorrectly betting that enterprise architecture management (EAM), business process analysis (BPA) and business process management (BPM) would coalesce into a... Read More..

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Appian funds its SaaS strategy with first venture funding

By Dennis Byron on July 21, 2008 10:57 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

In March, when Appian announced its business process management (BPM) software contract with Enterprise Rent-a-Car, I noted that a lot of Appian’s technology such as Appian’s Form and Rules Designers and other real-user-facing components all work via a straight Web... Read More..

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What happens to BPM if IT budgets are cut in 2008?

By Dennis Byron on July 16, 2008 2:38 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

In case you needed some one other than your boss to tell you so, your budget is being cut. So says a recently released IT Spending research report from Computer Economics. There is a summary available on their web site... Read More..

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If BPM is the new ERP, where are the Hogans, the HBOs and the JDAs?

By Dennis Byron on July 10, 2008 12:20 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes

When I started researching the ERP market in 1993 for Datapro, I quickly found there were over 100 ERP software providers even though most analysts only counted Oracle, J.D. Edwards, SAP and a dozen or so guys that are now... Read More..

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Calling for input on Financial Services BPM software

By Dennis Byron on July 10, 2008 8:24 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

A recent article on CRM Today about BPM in banking reminds me that I have to get going on the next in a series of BPM-related research articles for ebizQ. The article talks about a Tower Group report that says:... Read More..

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A developer's view on business process management sounds like a plea for the status quo

By Dennis Byron on July 9, 2008 10:11 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Like the week in December leading up to the Gregorian New Year (or do I have the wrong pope; is it Julian?), the week of July 4th is a slow news week. Although it is just an American holiday, IT... Read More..

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July 2008 Archives

BPM's place in the upcoming decade of corporate change

HP and Intel, and Yahoo! – Oh, My! Talk About Your “Big Mash-Ups!”

SAP, other Ilog BPM users need to think twice about the IBM takeover

Back to BPM (for a bit, anyway): Appian Movin' On Up (Continued, sort-of...)

It's not intelligent process automation but it is intelligent and it is process automation

Appian funds its SaaS strategy with first venture funding

What happens to BPM if IT budgets are cut in 2008?

If BPM is the new ERP, where are the Hogans, the HBOs and the JDAs?

Calling for input on Financial Services BPM software

A developer's view on business process management sounds like a plea for the status quo

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