http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/ In this blog (formerly known as "SOA in Action"), Joe McKendrick examines how BPM and related business and IT approaches can promote business transformation. en Copyright 2012 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:37:02 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Big Data may be the problem, but Hadoop is the answer. Hadoop is an open-source software framework that enables applications to run across large arrays of nodes, accessing petabytes' worth of data. It was originally created by Doug Cutting to... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/09/if_big_data_is_the_problem_the.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/09/if_big_data_is_the_problem_the.php Data Management Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:37:02 -0500 joemckendrick As part of my work and investigation on the possibilities of deploying enterprise content management in the cloud, I heard from Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, a project management software vendor, on things companies need to know about cloud deployments.For... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/08/time_for_a_bpm_manifesto.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/08/time_for_a_bpm_manifesto.php Cloud computing Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:58:21 -0500 joemckendrick Management guru Tom Peters, in his most recent work, The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence, talks about the importance of design as a part of continuous improvement. The important thing is that design is not just something... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/08/design_is_everywhere.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/08/design_is_everywhere.php Business Process Management Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:32:59 -0500 joemckendrick In recent weeks, I have been doing some work and investigation on the possibilities of deploying enterprise content management in the cloud. As part of this project, I heard from Seth Earley, president and CEO of Earley & Associates, who... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/08/cloud-based_content_management.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/08/cloud-based_content_management.php Business Process Management Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:21:37 -0500 joemckendrick I recently had the opportunity to chat with Ken Bisconti, vice president of ECM Products and Strategy for IBM, about the changing face of ECM. For more details on the cloudification of ECM, see my two-part series published here at... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/07/ibms_ken_bisconti_on_enterpris.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/07/ibms_ken_bisconti_on_enterpris.php Cloud computing Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:48:22 -0500 joemckendrick Readers of this blogsite may notice that we've changed the name from "SOA in Action" to "Business Transformation in Action."The change reflects the evolution of the ebizQ site from coverage of a collection of the leading technology initiatives to focus... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/07/business_transformation_in_act.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/07/business_transformation_in_act.php Business Process Management Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:37:07 -0500 joemckendrick Mike Gammage took a close look at IBM's latest study of 3,000 CIOs from around the world and noticed something about their commitment to business process management: It's not as strong as it was before -- down by four percentage... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/06/bpm_and_the_cios_dilemma.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/06/bpm_and_the_cios_dilemma.php Business Process Management Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:01:02 -0500 joemckendrick Does Software as a Service and business process management belong together? That's the question asked by ebizQ contributor Alan Earls. Alan reports that leading analysts are positive about the concept of SaaS-delivered BPM -- but cautious: Consider what Forrester Research's... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/06/bpm_and_soa_roundup.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/06/bpm_and_soa_roundup.php Business Process Management Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:13:58 -0500 joemckendrick Forrester's Clay Richardson just published a piece at the ebizQ site that connects the dots between business process management and crowdsourcing. As he points out, there are profound benefits that can come out of a well-organized crowdsourcing process: the internal... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/crowdsourcing.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/crowdsourcing.php Business Process Management Tue, 31 May 2011 22:36:23 -0500 joemckendrick "Be Clear, Be Simple, Be Valuable."That's the advice Chris Lockhart provides, as he walks readers of his latest post through an exercise in discovering and documenting end-user requirements.The bottom line, Lockhart says, it that business users don't care one bit... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/architects_advice_be_clear_be.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/architects_advice_be_clear_be.php Enterprise Architecture Fri, 27 May 2011 22:56:23 -0500 joemckendrick IDC just released some data that shows that the worldwide business process management (BPM) and middleware market recovered strongly from its 2009 growth slump and for 2010 revenue totaled nearly $16.1 billion, representing growth of 9.2% - up sharply from... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/idc_booming_times_for_bpm_and.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/idc_booming_times_for_bpm_and.php Business Process Management Thu, 26 May 2011 22:32:01 -0500 joemckendrick I recently had the opportunity to provide some of my thoughts to Alan Earls' latest article on the challenges of cloud computing security at SearchSOA.The bottom line, he relates, is that security is a big issue for cloud computing, and... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/no_governance_no_security_simp.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/no_governance_no_security_simp.php Cloud computing Thu, 26 May 2011 21:37:48 -0500 joemckendrick No business process succeeds if it is implemented in a dry, passionless way. I'm reading Tom Peters' most recent work, The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence, and there are plenty of common-sense, yet under-appreciated lessons for anyone... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/lead.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/lead.php Business Process Management Tue, 24 May 2011 18:30:34 -0500 joemckendrick How do you measure return on investment for BPM investments?Gartner analyst Bill Rosser recently took a stab at the ROI for BPM initiatives -- a tough area to measure ROI, since BPM has so many components and involves so many... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/thoughts_on_the_roi_of_bpm.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/thoughts_on_the_roi_of_bpm.php Business Process Management Mon, 23 May 2011 22:24:06 -0500 joemckendrick Getting started with business process management requires BPM principles right from the get-go.Miguel Valdes-Faura, CEO of BonitaSoft and co-founder ot the open source Bonita project, provides some fundamental guidelines for getting started:Model the reality, not the ideal: Watch how employees... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/bpm_is_a_process_too.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/soainaction/2011/05/bpm_is_a_process_too.php Business Process Management Mon, 23 May 2011 11:39:57 -0500 joemckendrick