June 2006 Archives

HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows Paul Stamatiou on how to embed a Flickr slideshow in a webpage (or blog post), including all the variable parameters. (tags: blogging photography) Phios Corporation A wiki-based process repository product, and an open... Read More..

I just saw the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for BPMS, published yesterday, and although I haven't had time to review the entire 19-page report, here's the MQ: Graphic removed at the request of Gartner, who seem to be missing the... Read More..

This is the foie gras of eating your own dogfood: I registered online for a product demo webinar with Bluespring today, and here's what I saw after I filled in the form: After a few minutes, I clicked the refresh... Read More..

WordPress Plugins Database If I'm going to redo my site in WordPress, I'd better start looking at this... (tags: blogging) BPM inside the belly of the SOA whale First part of a series on BPM and SOA. See the... Read More..

Okay, I'm joking about the 2.0 nonsense, but I am headed for the second edition of Mashup Camp in two weeks to continue my investigations into using mashup methods and technologies to make enterprise integration more agile and less weighty.... Read More..

This is brilliant: Steve Jones on SOA anti-patterns. I was going to just do my usual del.icio.us link/auto-post, but it's inspired me to an entire post. A few months back, I wrote an article for AIIM E-DOC Magazine on BPM... Read More..

Mozilla Firefox Cheat Sheet From Leslie Franke, a very useful list of keyboard shortcuts and other information about Firefox. (tags: reference productivity)... Read More..

I had a chance late last week to talk to Shawn Price (CEO) and Pat Morrissey (SVP Marketing) of Savvion about the news that they're releasing this week. It's always flattering to hear the CEO of a BPM vendor start... Read More..

BPEL Processes and Human Workflow Articlein SOA Web Services Journal on scenarios for including human interaction in BPEL processes. (tags: bpel) Business Process Execution Language, Part 1: An Introduction Intro to BPEL on Sun Developer Network (tags: bpel) Workflow... Read More..

Workflow Patterns A repository for workflow modeling patterns, often referred to when evaluating process standards and product. (tags: bpm bpmn)... Read More..

A bit late notice, but if you're a FileNet customer or partner in the Toronto area, you can attend a UserNet (user group) meeting tomorrow at 9am at FileNet's offices, 191 The West Mall, Suite 1010 in Toronto's west end.... Read More..

IT|Redux » How To Build a Website with Office 2.0 Ismael Ghalimi on building a corporate website using WordPress and other no-client-side tools. Could be just what I need to get started. (tags: webdesign web2.0)... Read More..

famfamfam.com: Silk Icons 1000 professionally-designed 16x16 icons available for free under a Creative Commons licence. (tags: webdesign) A Better Path to Enterprise Architectures White paper by Roger Sessions from ObjectWatch (tags: ea)... Read More..

Continued from Part 7. Part 8 (the last): The Current State of BPM. Every analyst, vendor and customer defines BPM differently, because the current definition of BPM is very broad, and there are many vendors jostling for position within it.... Read More..

I had a couple of emails recently from people looking for public-domain process models, related but slightly different. The first was looking for generic process models for those processes that are the same in most businesses: I am trying to... Read More..

Flock The public beta release of Flock, a Mozilla-based brower that adds some nice features above Firefox. (tags: web2.0)... Read More..

I had lunch with a (relatively) non-technical friend last week, and she commented that she read my blog but sometimes doesn't understand the alphabet soup of acroyms. Instead of having some sort of glossary that you could go to, then... Read More..

I downloaded Flock last night, about 12 minutes after the public beta was released, and I've been playing with it on and off since then. Some good stuff, some things that seem good but aren't so useful for me. Flock... Read More..

Today at noon Eastern, I'm moderating a webinar called "SOA: Architecture, Methodology, or Millstone for Financial Technology Organizations?" featuring Sun Microsystems and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Tune in live, or use the same link to listen to the replay later.... Read More..

This story makes me want to drive out to Oakville (which is just east of Toronto) and buy Neil Montgomery a beer. In summary, Davis Controls, a 50-person manufacturing firm in Oakville headed by Montgomery, put in a BPMS from... Read More..

I hadn't looked at the news feed from Information Week for a few days, so when I checked it today there was a really interesting story told by way of headlines: Yahoo Mail Worm Harvesting Addresses: The "Yamanner" worm exploits... Read More..

Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) The current OMG Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) standard. Direct link to PDF document. (tags: businessrules)... Read More..

Continued from Part 6. Part 7: The New Arrivals. In the years following the dot-com bust in 2000, a number of new BPM vendors came into being, mostly in the coveted pure-play space. (Funnily enough, "pure-play BPM" is now not... Read More..

I was catching up on some older Gartner podcasts recently -- they're not really time-sensitive, so fine to listen to them weeks or months later, and some of them do contain some good tidbits of information. There was one good... Read More..

Windows Vista Torrent An unofficial (but somehow sanctioned) location to download Vista via Bittorrent. (tags: reference) PHP Manual Online PHP reference. (tags: webdesign development reference) SQL Introduction Online SQL reference. (tags: reference development) Transact-SQL Reference (tags: development reference)... Read More..

For years, I've been using My Yahoo! as my start page. It has lots of great modules available, I use a free Yahoo! account as my "web form" address (instead of Hotmail), and I use Yahoo! groups, all of which... Read More..

Heads down on a couple of client projects, plus a home project to completely disassemble a Compaq Armada M700 in order to resolder the power connector, which is conveniently located on the underside of the motherboard where you can't get... Read More..

Online Shopping in Canada A Squidoo lens of online shopping sites in Canada. Via mynameiskate.ca. (tags: shopping canada) XPDL 2.0: Integrating Process Interchange and BPMN Free white paper from WfMC, extracted from their 2006 Workflow Handbook. (tags: bpm) Creating... Read More..

If you haven't had the chance to see Zynium's Byzio product in action yet, Appian is hosting a webinar on June 21st that will show off how Byzio works with their BPMS. As I discussed previously, Byzio lets you draw... Read More..

Process matters Nicholas Carr's post from last year on why process matters, in response to Ross Mayfield's "The End of Process" post. (tags: bpm) Club del BPM An association for people in Spain who are interested in BPM. (tags:... Read More..

From Baseline/CIO Insight, a report on emerging technologies; specifically, a survey of CIOs of what technologies that they're actually using. Some results that I find to show the incredible short-sightedness of many corporate CIOs is the percentage who find the... Read More..

Although supply-chain integration is definitely not my key area of expertise, I've been asked to moderate an ebizQ webinar this Thursday featuring Extol. I'll do the introduction up front, then ask the questions that the audience sends in at the... Read More..

Want Fries With Your Change(s)? Robert McIlree on how those Web 2.0 changes aren't exactly taking the large corporate world by storm. (tags: web2.0) Solving Classic Problems Using SOA Brenda Michelson on approaches to large SOA implementations. (tags: soa)... Read More..

Sometimes the whole social networking phenomena still manages to surprise me. Last week was DemoCamp6, put on by my friend and neighbour David Crow. I missed it due to a bad head cold, but emailed him on Saturday to get... Read More..

Intuition My current read, about the interactions and politics within a scientific research lab. (tags: books)... Read More..

EAsurvey.org 2006 enterprise architecture survey sumarizes trends in governmental EA in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nothern Ireland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and USA. Full re (tags: ea) Review of... Read More..

My corporate website is pretty minimalist, since I'm a one-person consulting shop and most of my good stuff is here on my blog. However, I'd like to redesign the site to be a bit more dynamic, and I'm thinking of... Read More..

EarlyStageVC: So What Does Web 2.0 in the Enterprise Look Like? Examining the central themes of Web 2.0 (user/community collaboration, rapid application development/integration) within an enterprise: enterprise mashups for the big guys, and outsourcing everything to Google for the... Read More..

Lots of interesting things swirling around about SaaS lately, including the relationship to shared services within an organization. James Governer posted about the convergence of shared services and business process outsourcing, but I have a bit of a problem with... Read More..

Get Your Blog Noticed! Great tips from Alec Saunders on getting more traffic on your blog. (tags: blogging) The hybrid utility architecture Nicholas Carr comments on a recent McKinsey report about the adoption of SaaS. Lots of good arguments... Read More..

I've been doing a lot of commenting on other people's blogs lately, and using co.mments to track the conversations. It's easy, just setup an account, install the bookmarklet in your browser, then when you're on a page where you want... Read More..

There's been a bit of a backlash lately about saying that some new technology is "easy enough for my mom to use" as if it denigrates women. However, when I use that phrase, I mean it quite literally: my mom... Read More..

The first bit of David Linthicum's podcast today covers the SOA 2.0 naming nonsense, calling it "disingenuous" and a "land grab", and pointing out that it will cause more confusion. Yesterday, I linked to Macehiter Ward-Dutton's Stop the Madness petition... Read More..