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A couple of months back I had a brief Twitter exchange with David Bressler of Progress Software (@djbressler), following a comment I'd seen from Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz) at Progress' analyst day regarding the lack of brand awareness that the company... Read More..

A few weeks ago I spent a couple of days in London, at IRM's 2008 Business Process Management Conference Europe, where I took in most of the sessions and also ran a session myself. I've been meaning to do a... Read More..

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) players often talk about their ability to support BPEL, and this is often mistaken for BPM support. But BPEL is a misleading beast (as I've blogged about previously). It's not a bad technology for helping IT... Read More..

This might sound like an odd title for a post, but I was prompted by this ZapThink ZapFlash, via the ever-watchful Todd Biske. The ZapThink note starts off talking about the challenges in SOA adoption that come from organisational issues... Read More..

Arch BPM blogger-cum-analyst Sandy Kemsley references an interesting conversation she had with some webMethods customers at Software AG's Integration World event where the customers "pooh pooh the BPM vendors who don't provide the whole integration stack". To me, this is... Read More..

I've lost count of the number of times I've seen throwaway comments exhorting companies to "create a centre of excellence (CoE) (mostly, for initiatives like SOA or BPM). Vendor / pundit / analyst / journalist: "Having trouble? Establish a centre... Read More..

Andrew McAfee at Harvard Business school poses an interesting question: do 'managers' belong on the list of knowledge workers whose jobs are being transformed by information technology? His question is prompted by a number of interesting examples of the use... Read More..

Oracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in which Oracle proposes to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash. The $17.00 per share offer... Read More..

I was on the way back to the office from a briefing with BPM vendor Pegasystems yesterday, where we'd had an interesting discussion about the relative roles that BPM and SOA can play in business transformation for customers. We agreed... Read More..

I have just returned from a couple of days in Orlando, where I attended a Microsoft Server and Tools Business analyst summit which coincided with the company's TechEd conference. The RedMonkers James and Coté did a great job of live... Read More..