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

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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..
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BPEl4People: BPM Edges Closer to the People Who Drive the Business

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By Michael Dortch on June 28, 2007 2:56 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
The wait is over. Now, the wait can begin. There is a standard known as Web Services Business Process Execution Language, or WS-BPEL. It's promulgated by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information (OASIS), a broadly supported and widely... Read More..
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IBM, Business Objects, and Information Builders (Oh, My!): "Once More into the Breach, Dear Friends…"

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By Michael Dortch on March 21, 2007 12:00 PM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes
I've quoted Shakespeare's Henry V above. (That's "Henry the Fifth" for the apparently increasing number of you who have never received instruction about Roman numerals.) The king went on to say this to encourage his troops into spirited battle. "In... Read More..
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E-Mail Archives as BPM Tools?

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By Michael Dortch on February 15, 2007 3:56 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I had a great conversation recently with Mark Anderson, Executive Vice President of Overtone Software, Inc., and Mark Presnell, CEO at Ability Software Ltd. Overtone offers several interesting and useful solutions for creating and managing content from Microsoft Corp. Exchange... Read More..
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Unstructured Data: Yet Another "First Mile" Challenge to Effective BPM

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By Michael Dortch on January 29, 2007 5:42 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Unstructured Data: Yet Another "First Mile" Challenge to Effective BPM OK, this is likely my last Lotusphere-inspired rant for this year, for those of you who have been waiting for me to stop harping on that event. However, I did... Read More..
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Process-Enabled Electronic Forms: Another "Form" of Invisible, Human-Centric BPM?

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By Michael Dortch on January 26, 2007 2:27 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Another "first mile" stumbling block in the path towards effective, human-centric BPM (and/or business knowledge management or BKM) is capture of information in ways that are easily usable by IT systems, yet easily used by humans. In this context, the... Read More..
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Can "Many Eyes" Improve Business Processes?

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By Michael Dortch on January 25, 2007 6:09 PM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
I've been reading some of the more recent postings in James Taylor's Decision Management blog here on ebizQ, and I find his insights refreshingly business- and human-focused and to the point. You might find them so as well. So while... Read More..
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IBM, Microsoft, and BPM-Enabled Applications: This COULD Be Going SO Much Better…

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By Michael Dortch on January 23, 2007 3:22 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
OK, let's review. One way to make traditional BPM "disappear" is for BPM-enabled applications and services to appear and proliferate. This means vendors need to help to enable the easy construction, deployment, management, and revision of such applications, by independent... Read More..
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Human-Centric, IT-Powered, Process-Driven Collaboration: IBM Gets It (I Think)

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By Michael Dortch on January 22, 2007 6:18 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
"While it pains me to endorse the 'evil empire,' human-centric BPM technologies that leverage Microsoft Office really do have a leg up. People use Excel and Word. What's strange is that Microsoft itself doesn't own a human-centric BPM software [offering]."... Read More..
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Dennis Byron is an analyst with ebizQ, focusing on Open Source Software as well as Business Process Management technologies.


His popular columns and blog entries on the enterprise open source space give ebizQ an edge as the only publication currently covered Open Source from a market perspective. Visit Dennis’ blog,"Open Source Up the Stack," here. Dennis is a speaker and moderator on all ebizQ programming relating to Open Source concepts.

Dennis Byron is also the principal of IT Investment Research.


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