February 2006 Archives

Understand that first of all, I think that Bruce Silver is a very smart guy, and don't take it the wrong way when I say that he is a less-than-scintillating speaker. He was featured on Appian's Investing in BPM webinar... Read More..

The first of a series of posts on scrAPIs (which I commented on following Mashup Camp last week) by Thor Muller of Rubyred Labs. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series this week.... Read More..

Forrester just released a report on human-centric BPMS, and Lombardi is just busting with pride over their position: so much so, that they're giving the report away here (registration required). Phil Gilbert must be doing a little happy dance, especially... Read More..

Further to my initial post on OMG's BPM Think Tank coming up on May 23-25, it's now open for registration. There's one day of pre-conference workshops, then two days of conference, including four sessions of executive and technology roundtables. Looks... Read More..

I recently discovered some notes that I had made back in November 2004 from a TIBCO webinar "Enabling Real-time Business with a Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architecture". Randy Heffner from Forrester spoke at that webinar, and I remember that it was... Read More..

May 8th and 9th, no location or agenda specified as yet, but there's a Web 2.0 conference being organized in Toronto. Mathew Ingram, one of the organizers, has a post about it here.... Read More..

My wrapup of Mashup Camp wouldn't be complete without mentioning the fabulous Computer History Museum in Mountain View where the event was held. Great venue, and the part of their collection that we were able to view during the party... Read More..

I'm still wrapping my brain around some of the ideas that started in my head at Mashup Camp, but I've been having fun browsing through all of the photo-detritus of the event. I was surprised that I made the first... Read More..

That's the thing about mashups, almost all of them are illegal I heard that (and unfortunately am unable to credit the source) in the "scrAPI" session at Mashup Camp, in which we discussed the delicate nature of using a site... Read More..

The flight home from Mashup Camp was a great opportunity to catch up on my notes from the past couple of weeks, including several ideas triggered by discussions at the TIBCO seminar last week: some because I disagreed with the... Read More..

I hate to spend too much of my time dissing the analysts, but sometimes I really wonder where they get their information. At a seminar that I attended last week, Michael Melenovsky from Gartner characterized the current state of BPM... Read More..

I've posted a number of times in the past about the importance of business rules engines (BRE) in conjunction with BPM in order to keep rules and process separate. To sum up my thoughts on this: Most BPMS don't have... Read More..

Now that I've been disconnected from the fire hose of information that was Mashup Camp, I've had a bit of time to reflect on what I saw there. Without doubt, this is the future of application integration both on the... Read More..

It's the second day of Mashup Camp, and I've had zero time to blog about what's going on here -- much like everyone else here, so it seems. I'll be posting my thoughts later this week, but in the meantime... Read More..

I haven't had a lot of comments on this blog yet (especially since I got rid of all the comment spam), but I like the idea of being able to track all the conversations that result from my posts. To... Read More..

I spent this morning at a seminar co-hosted by TIBCO and Intelligent Enterprise, featuring Michael Melenovsky from Gartner. One of my reasons for attending was to find out more about TIBCO's newly-released version of General Interface, which they purchased a... Read More..

I just watched a webinar hosted by BPMinstitute called "Proven Steps to BPM Success". By the time the webinar started, it was retitled as "Breakaway BPM -- Leveraging Business Process Innovation for Strategic Advantage", although there wasn't really a lot... Read More..

Phil Gilbert (CTO of Lombardi) posts about how to evaluate vendors, and makes some comments that are likely to cause a few groans from people inside his own sales organization, like the 60-day money-back guarantee. I'd like to add one... Read More..

One of the first BPM-related blogs to be added to my newsreader was The Vision Thing, and today Ethan announced that he's shutting it down. I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Ethan for one of his Sound of... Read More..

It's a good sign when a niche technology starts getting a lot of coverage in mainstream IT press. I don't consider BPM "niche" any more (okay, maybe "niche-ish"), but it's still not as widespread as it could be. Judging by... Read More..

Attention, all you Mashup Camp attendees: go to Attendr to see a cool mashup example from Jeff Marshall that allows you to link to other attendees you already know or would like to meet. If you're going to be at... Read More..

No, I don't think any of you are dummies -- the title (however appropriate) is in sympathy with a letter received by Jason Calacanis and a follow-up suggestion by Jeff Jarvis. Check for related posts with the fordummies tag on... Read More..

I've written about business blogging in the past, and I firmly believe that it has become an essential tool for small business marketing in any business where the personalities and personal knowledge of the participants form most of the value... Read More..

On the heels of an announcement that TIBCO is supporting AJAX for developing interfaces to their BPM, I'm attending a TIBCO seminar next Thursday in Toronto, "Harness the Power of Process to Tip the Competitive Scales: What BPM Can Do... Read More..

Here's an interesting tidbit from the very bottom of an article on TIBCO's recent upgrades to its BPM platform (formerly the Staffware product): The company [TIBCO] has upgraded the BPM user interface, as well, to include AJAX for the development... Read More..

All of a sudden, there's a lot of noise around enterprise mashups. Dennis Howlett posts about BPM and SOA, quoting a post by Jeff Clavier on the same topic. Dennis' post also quotes a post by David Berlind which is... Read More..

There's been a veritable deluge of spam on this blog recently, both in comments and trackback, so I'm experimenting with a few settings to try and make it go away: - Enabled comment moderation. Unfortunately, although the default template claims... Read More..

Joe McKendrick posted last week about whether open source or SOA is killing the software industry faster, right on the heels of a couple of articles in eWeek about how E-Trade is switching to open source (E-Trade's not just implementing... Read More..

Jim Sinur, who is THE name in BPM at Gartner, has a recent article about business rules. He believes that BRE is finally out of the trough of disillusionment (a part of the Gartner "hype cycle", and not a good... Read More..

In the findings from their Insurance Industry research meeting published this week, Gartner states the bleeding obvious: Tactical BPM Approaches Will Cause Rule Management Nightmares for Healthcare Payers It's been pretty obvious for some time that BPM should not be... Read More..