In a March 6 BPM VIEWPOINT here on ebizQ, Is Sharepoint Floor wax or Dessert Topping?, I asked what Microsoft Office SharePoint Server was all about. After posting it,, I realized there are not many readers that remember the Chevy-Chase routine from the 1970s Saturday Night Live (SNL).
But Dan Keldsen of Information Architected did and responded to my blog post shortly thereafter. But his response was not just a matter of playing Trivial Pursuit because Dan, along with Carl Frappaolo are the authors of the SharePoint study that I mentioned in the Sharepoint as floor wax/dessert topping article. The study was put out by AiiM International and Information Architected and sponsored by Oracle.
In my opinion the AiiM study says there is a lot of ground to make up in enterprises to take maximum advantage of business process management (BPM) concepts. The survey said only a small percentage of enterprises were using Sharepoint for BPM. That did me although I saw a lot of blog postings that--like the police chief in the movie Casablanca--seemed "shocked, just shocked!" A low percentage seems about right to me because BPM as a value proposition is a long journey and industry, commerce and government have only just begun it. We are no where near the point where the business processes of all three are melded.
But why listen to my opinion when you can listen to the one of the authors of the study. The guest for this podcast is Carl Frappaolo of Information Architected. He is a pioneer in RDBMS application design, development and instruction, and founded and was CEO of Conversion Technologies, one of the first companies to develop automated products to help organizations migrate from 3rd to 4th generation programming languages. Then Carl founded the Delphi Group, where he was fundamental in establishing this firm's market research, consulting and education practices. After Delphi was acquired by Perot Systems, Carl established the AIIM Market Intelligence division, within AIIM International, where he created the AIIM Market IQ series of which the survey I wrote about was a part. That work is now conducted by his present firm Information Architected.
-- Dennis Byron
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