BPM in Action: Enterprise Information Integration Archives

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

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

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

The Big Mash-Up, Continued: What RFID Means, REALLY – Real-Time, Fully Integrated Data!

By Michael Dortch on June 9, 2008 8:19 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Why are American Apparel, South America's Falabella, BGN, a major book retailer in the Netherlands, Staples superstores in Canada, and other retailers around the world attaching Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to every item in many of its stores? Especially... Read More..

Categories: BPM, Business Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Enterprise Information Integration, Information Lifecycle Management, Process Visibility, RFID, SOA, The Big Mash-Up

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Big Mash-Up, Continued: What Does BPM Want?

By Michael Dortch on March 25, 2008 1:45 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

As I’ve mentioned here previously, I (along with some other industry observers whose opinions I respect, sometimes more than my own) fervently believe we’re watching the colliding convergence of multiple technologies. These include, but are not limited to, BPM, event-driven... Read More..

Categories: BPM, Business Knowledge Management, Enterprise Information Integration, Event-Driven Architecture, Information Lifecycle Management, SOA

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

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

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

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