On Public and Private Companies: Dell buys Dell
So, Michael Dell and Silverlake Partners are taking Dell (the company) private by buying all of the outstanding shares for $13.65 per share in cash.. Much of the tech press is looking for meaning in...
View ArticleBPM Market Size – Kofax Version
Kofax and Forrester research have released some interesting numbers on BPM market size. Like most vendor sponsored research, its a fairly ego-centric view of the universe. Apparently, there are three...
View ArticleMigration Projects – A Personal Tale
I have a love/hate relationship with migration projects. Migrating a customer from one technology to another is always painful. There are always unexpected problems. The best laid plans always go awry....
View ArticleMost people would rather leave their data in the cloud?
Here is a little gem from Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer at Ventana Research: via Twitter Here’s the real question about this statistic: How are 56% of the businesses functioning if they...
View ArticleSavvion’s New Home – The Aurea Website
Just over 4 months have past since Trilogy Enterprises Investment Arm acquired 4 businesses from Progress Software to form a new business, Aurea Software. The new Aurea website sports a chemistry motif...
View ArticleReviewing your Technology :: Do I have the Right Product?
Over on the BPM and Enterprise Architecture blog, Harald van der Weel has a post discussing how to structure a BPMS vendor assessment. For me, the most interesting part is the first two line:...
View ArticleBonitasoft and Current BPM Market Trends
Theo Priestley on his ITredux blog published a great interview with BonitaSoft’s Vice President of Marketing, Mac MacConnell. There is lots of interesting elements to the conversation and its worth a...
View ArticleForrester Wave for BPMS 1Q13 :: Not about technology?!?
The Forrester Wave for BPMS, 1Q2013 is out today. And, this blog post will not be about the contents of the report since I’m unwilling to part with $2,495 to read it. If anyone at Forrester wants to...
View ArticleBox World Tour :: By the Numbers
Today, I spent the day at a customer event for Box. I use Box for our business as a key document repository and collaboration platform so it was interesting to see the where the business was going....
View ArticleBox World Tour :: Big Customers, Big Lessons
Herve Coureil, the CIO of Schneider Electric, was on the main stage at the Box World tour last week. Most of the discussion was a pretty standard testimonial for a customer conference but Herve...
View ArticleHow the Cloud Changes Enterprise Software
Over on ReadWrite, Jeetu Patel, the GM of EMC Synplicity, writes about the impact of SaaS software on enterprise software. It’s a pretty typical list-of-things-guest-post. Lots of good points and one...
View ArticleFirst Projects and The Power of Complaints
Last week on his Theo Priestley suggests a great place to start with Case Management (and I would add) BPM implementations — Complaints and Enquiries Processes. He writes: Complaints is perhaps one of...
View ArticleBlueWorksLive April Release :: Decisions Get Full Support
In the lead up to IBM’s Impact Conference, they have released a new version of their online process modelling tool, BlueworksLive. Aside from some minor additions to the process modelling capabilities,...
View ArticleNotes of Impact 2013 :: First Thoughts on the Product Announcements
As always, there was a wealth of information and interesting customer references packed into the first keynote. Over the next days, these themes will be detailed and explained. Two elements of the...
View ArticleNotes from Impact 2013 :: Smarter Process and the Confused Story of Case...
As part of newly announced ‘Smarter Process’ initiative, IBM recast quite a bit of their BPM market positioning at Impact last week. Probably the most problematic part of the IBM BPM technology story...
View ArticleEffektif BPM, Blueworks Live and the Right Context
I’ve been interested in Effektif BPM since its launch earlier this year. Scott Francis and Bruce Silver’s view that the tool was like the process automation bits of BlueworksLive made me more...
View ArticleIBM must love this headline as much as Salesforce hates it
The front page of yesterday’s Financial Times London edition. Awesome headline — For IBM. IBM and Salesforce make push into cloud. Its a pretty balanced article about 2 multi-billion dollar M&A...
View ArticleEffektif BPM, Blueworks Live and the Right Context
I’ve been interested in Effektif BPM since its launch earlier this year. Scott Francis and Bruce Silver’s view that the tool was like the process automation bits of BlueworksLive made me more...
View ArticleIBM must love this headline as much as Salesforce hates it
The front page of yesterday’s Financial Times London edition. Awesome headline — For IBM. IBM and Salesforce make push into cloud. Its a pretty balanced article about 2 multi-billion dollar M&A...
View ArticleThe Dell LBO closes, tech pundits delude themselves and some predictions
On Thursday as expected, Michael Dell, Silverlake Partners and MSD Capital with some help from Microsoft and the capital markets closed their $24.9 billion dollar leveraged buy-out of Dell to delist...
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