BPM

Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business

February 2, 2012

[ March 22, 2012; 8:00 am to 9:00 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.” I will be speaking on BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler, and More Agile Business. The third  is in Denver, CO on March 22nd and the main session starts at 8:30am MT. I will be [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business

February 1, 2012

[ March 7, 2012; 6:00 am to 7:00 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.” I will be speaking on BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler, and More Agile Business. The second is in Columbus, OH on March 7th and the main session starts at 8:30am ET. I will be [...]

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Live Event: Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business

January 31, 2012

[ February 15, 2012; 6:30 am to 7:30 am. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM/Information Week events this quarter on “Process Excellence: A Route to Better Business.” I will be speaking on BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, Simpler, and More Agile Business. The first  is in Dallas TX on February 15th and the main session starts at 8:30am CT. I will be [...]

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Webinar: Breaking Down Integration Silos with Holistic Integration

January 10, 2012

[ February 7, 2012; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am giving a webinar with Talend on February 7th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern on holistic integration – the combination of data management, application integration and business process management for best in class integration.

You can register for the webinar here.

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First Look – Talend

January 5, 2012

Talend has been around for about 6 years and the original focus was on “democratizing” data integration – making it cheaper, easier, quicker and less maintenance-heavy. They originally wanted to build an open source alternative for data integration. In particular they wanted to make sure that there was a product that worked for smaller companies [...]

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Opening Keynotes at #BBCCon11

November 1, 2011

Gladys Lam kicked if off by introducing the three chairs of the conference – Kathleen Barret Chair of IIBA who heads up the business analysis tracks, Roger Burlton of BPTrends who heads up the business process tracks and Ron Ross of BRSolutions who heads up the business rules forum tracks. The three chairs then came [...]

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Live Event: Improving customer service with BPM and decision management

October 28, 2011

[ December 8, 2011; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am speaking at a series of IBM events this fall and next spring focused on “Improving customer service with BPM and decision management“. The second is in San Jose, CA on December 8th and the main session starts at 9am PT. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for [...]

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Live Event: Improving customer service with BPM and decision management

October 28, 2011

[ December 6, 2011; 6:00 am to 9:00 am. ] I am speaking at a serious of IBM events this fall and next spring focused on “Improving customer service with BPM and decision management”. The first is in Reston, VA on December 6th and the main session starts at 9am ET. I will be kicking off the session with “BPM and Decision Management for Smarter, [...]

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First Look JBoss Enterprise SOA and BRMS 5.2

October 12, 2011

I got an overview of JBoss’s new intelligent, integrated enterprise approach as well some of their new product announcements. They are adding new data services, BPEL support, productizing their event/rules combination and adding some new connectivity elements.
The world has obviously changed in the last few years. The fully automated processes of the past, JBoss feels, [...]

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Decision Management Product News Recap Q2 2011

June 29, 2011

Here is a recap of Decision Management product news for Q2 2011
Business Rules

First Look Corticon 5
A long established vendor in the business rules management space, Corticon describe themselves as focused on delivering better, faster decisions by automating business rules.
First Look – OpenRules Decision Management System
OpenRules allows business users to manage rules directly in Excel, OpenOffice [...]

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Update – Software AG

May 31, 2011

I got an update from Software AG after they announced webMethods 8.2 and ARIS 7.2.These two releases are the end result of work since Software AG acquired both companies. The releases contain features specific to both products based on their long standing roadmaps but Software AG also invested in improved integration of the two products. [...]

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Transforming your business with analytics – a series

May 23, 2011

I want to share with you the collective wisdom of over 50 companies that have transformed their business using analytics. These companies tackled core business issues like customer retention, marketing, patient care, student achievement, and customer centricity in industries as varied as Retail, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Education, Government, Insurance and Banking.
Tomorrow I will kick off a [...]

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Decision technology events for October 2011

May 23, 2011

There are a number of great events related to Decision Management themes and technology platforms this October. Here’s my list so far for October 2011

Teradata Partners Conference and Expo 2-6 October, San Diego, CA
This is a great conference for anyone using or considering Teradata. I assume that this year there will be a solid set [...]

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The Essential CIO and Decision Management

May 18, 2011

IBM recently surveyed CIOs as part of their ongoing CxO research. This was the second time they did this – 2009 was the first. They just released the results of their analysis of the 3,000 interviews they conducted in 71 countries. The results are summarized in the body of the post along with some Decision [...]

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More on the relationship between Decision Management and BPM

May 10, 2011

There’s a great article over on IBM’s Good Decisions blog called “What’s Decision Management got to do with Business Process Management?” The article lays out a nice scenario for Decision Management and differentiates between business event processing, business rules management, analytics and business process management. It is definitely worth a read. There are a couple [...]

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Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management

May 9, 2011

The recording of “Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management” is now available and you can access it by here (registration required). This webinar showed how combining BPM with Decision Management results in simpler, more agile processes and increases straight through processing and operational effectiveness.
If this topic interests you [...]

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Reminder – free webinar on Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management

May 4, 2011

Tomorrow, May 5th, at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern I am giving a free webinar on “Increasing BPM agility and effectiveness with Decision Management”. Combining BPM with Decision Management results in simpler, more agile processes and increases straight through processing and operational effectiveness. I will cover how combining Decision Management with BPM:

Delivers simpler, more [...]

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New White Paper: Decisions at the Heart of Your Processes

May 2, 2011

A new white paper is up on Decision Management Solutions company site, “The Decisions at the Heart of Your Processes - How Decision Management simplifies business processes and improves results.” It is a companion paper to the workshop I gave last week at Gartner BPM 2011.
Summary: Companies applying Business Process Management can create simpler and more [...]

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Gartner BPM 11 Closing Keynote

April 29, 2011

Daryl Plummer gave the closing keynote – “If I had a time machine”. He began by differentiating between science fiction and fantasy – science fiction being a vision of the future that is based on some extrapolation of currently understood science and facts. Fantasy is completely based on the whims of the visionary. What he [...]

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Role of Business Intelligence in process improvement

April 29, 2011

Bill Gassman spoke on the role of Business Intelligence – BI – in process improvement. Bill means “big BI” – everything to do with intelligence about your business, the discipline of BI and analytics, not just a “BI” product. The road to intelligent operations he says has “haves” and “have nots” – some have BI [...]

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