May 2007 Archives

Ryan Coleman, another friend of mine from the TorCamp community, led a discussion on language translation and the impact on the sort of interacting with the global community due to the premise of wikinomics. Although it's easy (and arrogant) for... Read More..

My pal Mark Kuznicki is discussing Toronto Transit Camp as a case study on open community innovation that started with the TTC issuing an RFP for a new website and ended up involving the Toronto blogosphere and local transit geeks in an... Read More..

Sunir Shah, formerly of SocialText and now with FreshBooks, led a session on achieving adoption, debunking the "if you build it, they will come" method of customer acquisition and retention. There's nothing in most of his session particular to Enterprise... Read More..

David Sean Lester is leading a session on Communication 2.0 (I think), or the use of digital media as an inherent part of Enterprise 2.0. He has a nicely prepared presentation with lots of lovely graphics, but his presentation is... Read More..

Our second breakfast speaker was John Bruce, CEO of iUpload, which is apparently going to undergo a name change in a few weeks. He was previously with the Documentum group within EMC, although not (I think) with Documentum before the... Read More..

I'm at Enterprise 2.0 Camp today, and Anthony Williams is the first breakfast speaker. He's giving the Wikinomics lesson in short -- how we're undergoing an economic transformation because of the collaborative nature of value creation that's happening due to... Read More..

Colin White continued on after his RSS presentation to give a wrap-up of the entire conference. Considering that he's the only thing standing between people and their flights (or the pool, in my case), it's pretty sparsely attended. I'm staying... Read More..

My session on the changing face of BPM went pretty well, except for one guy who said that I was wrong about pretty much everything :) Today finishes early, so I'm at the last breakout session, Colin White discussing using... Read More..

I skipped this morning's taxonomy/folksonomy smackdown featuring Seth Earley and Zach Wahl -- I just wasn't up for that much testosterone this early in the morning -- and went to the best practices track to hear about how AvenueA|Razorfish implemented their... Read More..

Apparently there was no wrap-up session yesterday, so the last session today wrapped up the past two days. Colin White, who has been running this conference for 8 years, was joined by three of his regular presenters: Shawn Shell of Consejo,... Read More..

Seth Earley gave a presentation on taxonomy governance; he's obviously a Very Important Taxonomist, and made sure that we knew it by having his flunky deliver his Starbucks Cafe Americano to him during the presentation instead of just grabbing a... Read More..

I arrived in Las Vegas late this morning for my presentation tomorrow morning, just in time for lunch at the conference. Sometimes, timing is everything. For the first afternoon breakout session, I sat in on Craig Roth of the Burton... Read More..

This came to me via the AIIM Toronto chapter, but is being put on by IQPC: Content Week Canada, June 18-20 in Toronto. Maybe they should call it Content Week Toronto?... Read More..

I've just returned from 6 days vacation on Canada's east coast, and Monday is a holiday here as well so things will be quiet here until I hit the Shared Insights Portals and Collaboration conference later this week in Las... Read More..

In advance of the big Boston Enterprise 2.0 conference in June, we're having a one-day Enterprise 2.0 event here in Toronto on May 29th as part of Toronto Tech Week. The day will start with a breakfast seminar "How Enterprise... Read More..

From Markus Strohmaier of the Know-Center Graz, information on this September's I-KNOW (International Conference on Knowledge Management), including a special track on Task and Process Exploration and Modelling with the following objectives: In contrast to the well researched and applied top-down... Read More..

I had a recent comment that the feed for this site is not working properly. If you're having trouble with the feed, it could be that you were using a feed directly from the site rather than the FeedBurner version... Read More..

I mentioned that I was having some problems with my column2.com email address, and I finally figured out what the problem was: in playing around with Google Apps for my domain, I ended up forwarding that email to a mailbox... Read More..

There's a webinar going on right now (12 Eastern) on ebizQ about which comes first, BPM or SOA, featuring Colin Teubner of Forrester. I like his agenda point: "Why SOA needs BPM (and not vice versa)".... Read More..

Last session of the conference, and it was a tough choice: the ALBPM Experience track was featuring a talk about BAM, but since I'd already covered this in the past two days, I decided on the performance tuning session. Unfortunately,... Read More..

Brandon Dean of BEA talked about how to use BPM for compliance and improved visibility into processes. I wrote a course on compliance and BPM recently, and I was interested in how they're seeing this roll out amongst their customer... Read More..

First session of the last morning, Eduardo Chiocconi of BEA and Rob Wald of JPMorgan Chase talked about the ALBPM UI: what comes out of the box, and what you can build yourself. Out of the box, ALBPM has three... Read More..

Eduardo Chiocconi of BEA gave us a technical view of the ALBPM BAM functionality: what's available out of the box, the extensions, how to create customized dashboards, security, and a bit of the architecture underlying it all so that we... Read More..

Jesper Joergensen gave us BEA's view of how BPM is changing business and the future of BPM. Actually, he starts out with Gartner's view of expected market growth (hockey, anyone?) and how BPM is becoming more and more a part of... Read More..

Last session of the morning was Mateo Almenta Recca of BEA and Kunal Shah of Citigroup talking about advanced process modelling -- specifically process exceptions -- in ALBPM. Exceptions can be either system exceptions, such as a service being unavailable,... Read More..

I started my day in a session about what's coming up in future versions of ALBPM; unfortunately, most of the information hasn't been publicly released, so you'll have to wait to read about it at a later date. BEA will... Read More..

It seems like my column2.com email forward was not working properly, and at least some email sent there has disappeared into that great bit bucket in the sky. If you've sent me something recently and didn't hear back, try it... Read More..

One hour left, and 25% of my battery life. It's a race to the finish. Craig Cochrane from BEA's professional services and Becky Lewis of SAIC finished off the first day with a session on the specific nature of BPM... Read More..

I'm jumping around between tracks (and hence rooms): I started the afternoon in the ALUI Experience track, then on to the ALBPM Technical/Developer track, and now I'm in the ALBPM Experience track for a discussion of best practices for managing... Read More..

Mariano Benitez of BEA (part of the original Fuego team that built what is now ALBPM) and Bhaskar Rayavaram of Bear Stearns (who was with Fuego before joining Bear Stearns) presented a unified view of BPM and SOA. Benitez started... Read More..

For the first breakout session, I attended BPM 101 for Portals to hear Jesper Joergensen of BEA's product marketing group and Bob O'Connor of Pratt & Whitney. Jesper started out by giving a brief review of BPM (the usual model/execute/analyze/optimize cycle),... Read More..

The general sessions finished with Adrian McDermott and Jay Simons from BEA engineering and product marketing to talk about -- no surprise by now -- the new Enterprise 2.0 products. This conference is starting to look like one big launch... Read More..

The general session continues with some BEA product and services information from Shane Pearson, VP of Marketing and Product Management someone whose name that I missed since I was late coming into the session after the break (someone help me... Read More..

Last up before the morning break was Brian Abrahamson, Director of Enterprise Architecture at PG&E; although I've been interested in the portal presentations prior to this, I was relieved to finally get some BPM/SOA content. They started on a huge... Read More..

The Ministry of Education of Luxembourg has implemented an educational portal using BEA technology, and Daniel Weiler, a professor at the Center of Technology for Education, discussed what they've learned over the 5 years since first implementation. They had a vision 5... Read More..

Next up were Frank Ybarra and Bambi George of Applebee's, a customer of BEA, discussing their corporate (internal-facing) portal and business agility. They're a public company (for now) with almost 2,000 restaurants in 49 states and 17 other countries, 75%... Read More..

Day 1 of the BEA user conference in Atlanta, and we start out with a morning of general sessions hosted by Ira Pollack, SVP Sales at BEA; the remainder of the 2-1/2 day conference is all breakout sessions. There's wifi... Read More..

I'll be blogging live from the BEA user conference this week in Atlanta. I arrived here today and had a quick look around the evening partner exhibition/drinks reception, but I'm really looking forward to the sessions tomorrow. Jesper Joergensen has... Read More..

The Transformation & Innovation conference is running in Washington DC on May 21-24, with several sessions on BPM. I won't be there; the dates are sandwiched in between a vacation trip to Nova Scotia and a presentation at the Shared... Read More..

Thursday morning, and it seems like a few of us survived last night's baseball game (and the after-parties) to make it here for the first session of the day. This will be my last session of the conference, since I... Read More..

For the last breakout session of the day, Mark Elder of TIBCO talked about reporting and analytics with iProcess Analytics, their historical (rather than real-time) analytics product.. The crowd's thin this time of day, although I understand that the lobby... Read More..

In an afternoon breakout session, Larry Tubbs from AmeriCredit talked about using TIBCO to automate their contract processing workflow, that is, the part between loan origination/approval and the contract administration system. Their business case was similar to that I've seen... Read More..

Ryan Herd, who heads the BPM centre of competence within RBM Private Bank, was up next to talk about the analysis that they did on open source BPM alternatives. Funny that the South Africans, like we understated Canadians, use the... Read More..

At this point, it makes more sense to start labelling the posts by session title rather than presenter, since we're getting into some pretty detailed breakout topics. This one was presented by Roger King, Director of BPM Product Strategy &... Read More..

Next up in the general session is the technology buzz panel, where "journalists, analysts, and industry experts square off on buzzwords of the day". The moderator was Gary Beach of CIO Magazine, with panelists Frank Kenney of Gartner, Jason Maynard of Credit Suisse, Rob Strickland... Read More..

Although not on the schedule, next up was Jayshree Ullal, SVP of the data centre, switching and security technology group at Cisco. Virtualization is definitely the key phrase of the day, because she's soon talking about network virtualization. She talked... Read More..

After a quick visit from Bill Schlough, SVP and CIO of the San Francisco Giants, to talk about our visit to the big game tonight (who knew that the Giants even had a CIO? Or that they're a TIBCO customer?),... Read More..

In the last session of the day, hence the only thing standing between the attendees and the bar, Tim and I gave a talk on business process modelling. My portion of the talk, which was not at all TIBCO-specific, talked... Read More..

I played hooky for a couple of sessions to go over my presentation for later today; as I mentioned earlier, TIBCO's product base is broader than my interests, so where a couple of natural dead spots during the schedule for... Read More..

I'm in my first breakout session of the day, State of BPM - Trends and Drivers for Success: A Leading Analyst Perspective by Gartner, and although the schedule shifted slightly to accommodate overtime speakers in the breakout session, the speaker... Read More..

Last in the morning's general session was Tom Laffey, TIBCO's EVP of products and technologies, and Matt Quinn, VP of product management and strategy. Like Ranadivé's talk earlier, they're talking about enterprise virtualization: positioning messaging, for example, as virtualizing the network... Read More..

Next in the morning's general session was Merrill Lynch's Head of Global Infrastructure, Diane Schueneman. She focussed on change and complexity, and how to manage that while maintaining a client focus. Like all the financial institutions that I work with,... Read More..

Although I kicked off TUCON in an Irish pub down the road two nights ago with some jet-lagged TIBCO folks, it really started last night with the opening reception in the solutions showcase. The reception was packed, and it turns... Read More..

Craig Mundie, Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft, gave today's lunch address; this post is out of order because I was not about to whip out my laptop and displace the best conference lunch that I have ever had -- grilled... Read More..