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The Big Mash-Up Meets the Big Meltdown: Why Now's a Great Time to Invest in IT, and Where

By Michael Dortch on November 13, 2008 8:09 PM 0

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To be brief, you can never find better bargains than during economic turbulence. So if you can find technologies that deliver business value - lower costs, higher profits, better productivity or customer/partner satisfaction - you should find a way to... Read More..

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The Big Mash-Up Meets the Big Meltdown: Into the Cloud!

By Michael Dortch on November 3, 2008 12:54 PM 0

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I'm at the Salesforce.com annual prayer meeting, Dreamforce. And Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is nearly ecstatic. There are nearly 10,000 people here (it's standing room only at the keynote), and many of them (us?) seem almost as excited as Benioff.... Read More..

Categories: Collaboration, Current Events, Enterprise Information Integration, Microsoft, Software as a Service, The Big Mash-Up, current_events

The Big Mash-Up, Continued: Oracle Set to Get Companies Buzzin' About Beehive

By Michael Dortch on September 22, 2008 4:18 PM 0

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Oracle Corp.'s ginormous annual revival meeting, Oracle OpenWorld, started in San Francisco today. One of the things Oracle will be showcasing at the event is a new collaboration solution the company calls Beehive. It's designed to sit alongside the Oracle... Read More..

Categories: Collaboration, Current Events, Process Visibility, Security, Software as a Service, The Big Mash-Up, current_events

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

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

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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

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

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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

The Big Mash-Up, Continued: Perhaps Perfect Process Perception?

By Michael Dortch on June 4, 2008 9:28 PM 0

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If you had complete visibility into everything that happened across your enterprise and its networks and IT resources, how would your business processes change? This is not just a philosophical exercise, at least not anymore. If it's true that "you... Read More..

Categories: BPM, Business Knowledge Management, Current Events, Enterprise Information Integration, IT Infrastructure Management, Process Visibility, The Big Mash-Up, current_events

IBM: I Believe (in the Big) Mash-Up!

By Michael Dortch on April 25, 2008 11:01 AM 0

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Earlier this month, IBM announced that it has integrated its FileNet BPM offering with Cognos 8 (which IBM also owns) and its business intelligence features. The company has also transformed its January acquisition of AptSoft into IBM WebSphere Business Events,... Read More..

Categories: BPM, Business Knowledge Management, Current Events, Enterprise Information Integration, Event-Driven Architecture, IBM, IT Infrastructure Management, SOA, The Big Mash-Up, current_events

“Renting BPM,” “BPM Live,” and “The Big Mash-Up”

By Michael Dortch on March 24, 2008 10:21 PM 0

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Dennis Byron, my new ebizQ BPM “blogmate” and one of my favorite pundits, wrote recently about Appian and Enterprise Rent-a-Car. I love the idea of “renting BPM,” and agree with Dennis completely that it’s something we could sooner rather than... Read More..

Categories: BPM, Business Knowledge Management, Current Events, Enterprise Information Integration, Event-Driven Architecture, Information Lifecycle Management, SOA, Software as a Service, current_events

Appian BPM at Enterprise: Can renting BPM be like renting a car?

By Dennis Byron on March 24, 2008 9:25 AM 0

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Appian announced today that Enterprise Rent-A-Car has gone live with an Appian-Enterprise-based business process management (BPM) solution for Enterprise’s IT department. A couple of things surprised me about the announcement. First, Enterprise is bigger than Hertz and Avis. The reason... Read More..

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So, Where Were We? Anything Happen While I Was Gone?

By Michael Dortch on February 18, 2008 10:14 PM 0

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Let’s see, what have I missed lately? Oracle and BEA: In January, the two companies finally reached agreement on Oracle acquiring BEA. As my Aberdeen Group colleagues wrote, the deal has multiple implications, not the least of which involve the... Read More..

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The Big Mash-Up Meets the Big Meltdown: Why Now's a Great Time to Invest in IT, and Where

The Big Mash-Up Meets the Big Meltdown: Into the Cloud!

The Big Mash-Up, Continued: Oracle Set to Get Companies Buzzin' About Beehive

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

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

The Big Mash-Up, Continued: Perhaps Perfect Process Perception?

IBM: I Believe (in the Big) Mash-Up!

“Renting BPM,” “BPM Live,” and “The Big Mash-Up”

Appian BPM at Enterprise: Can renting BPM be like renting a car?

So, Where Were We? Anything Happen While I Was Gone?

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