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How enterprises are winning with web 2.0

May 22, 2008

Jeff Hammond’s theme for this presentation is that as enterprise experiment with web 2.0 some successful adoption patterns are emerging. There are three ways to look at web 2.0:

Enabling technologies
Flex, Air, Silverlight, XML, Ajax, cloud computing
Core applications
Blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, rss, mashups built on these core technologies
Behavior shifts
Information workplaces, social computing, dynamic business applications, [...]

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Automating Decisions within Business Processes

May 21, 2008

I can’t blog this session live as John Rymer and Mike Gualtieri have asked me to participate. What follows is a combination of thoughts based on the presentation and post-presentation notes.
The theme of the presentation is that “The next frontier in business process management (BPM) and business rules is automating decisions within business processes”. If [...]

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The Future of Application Development

May 21, 2008

I’m going to be on stage with Mike Gualtieri soon but I thought I would drop in and listen to him on the future of application development. Sadly this meant missing a session on BI but even I can’t be in two places at once. Mike’s theme is that the value of application developers in [...]

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Why Events Matter To The Business

May 20, 2008

Last session of the day (also blogged on paper) was Charles Brett on Why Events Matter To The Business and what this means for application development professionals. I heard Charles talk on a similar subject at the IBM IMPACT event -Live from IMPACT – Business Event Processing.
While many more business and IT people are [...]

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The Future of Enterprise Applications

May 20, 2008

I had to blog the last two sessions on paper – there are no power sockets in the hotel (the Palazzo at the Venetian in Las Vegas, conference planners please note) and my battery eventually gave up. So, back in the hotel now, here’s a summary of the notes I took.
Sharyn Leaver presented on the [...]

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Live from Forrester – Don’t Wait to Innovate

May 20, 2008

Bobby Cameron came up next and begun by highlighting how little IT sometimes matters to business innovation – even innovative companies and CEOs don’t think of their IT in this way. So why is this a problem? Executives say one thing but do another:

Innovation is a “priority” but not on the executive team’s agenda.
CEOs talk [...]

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Live from Forrester – Your Role in Business Innovation

May 20, 2008

Eric Browne and Mike Gilpin kicked it off and introduced the theme of the conference – Innovation. 80% of GDP growth comes from new products and more innovative companies have higher profit margin growth and stock returns. Innovation remains in the top 3 list of concerns for executives. They showed an interesting collection of definitions [...]

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Some thoughts on the future of application development

May 8, 2008

Mike Gualtieri of Forrester had a blog post a few months back that I missed then but that he pointed out to me this week – What Is Your Future? In it he outlines two scenarios at either end of a continuum. One is that application development changes in incremental ways such that “The application [...]

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Live from InterACT – Design for People, Build for Change

April 29, 2008

Back on this blog for John Rymer of Forrester talking about dynamic business applications (about which I have blogged before) and how the next generation of systems will be designed for people and built for change. John began by showing a video of a broker’s desktop demonstration built by Adobe and some partners. Brokers are [...]

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Check out the new Forrester report on Business Rules

April 9, 2008

John Rymer and Mike Gualtieri of Forrester have just published the Business Rules Platforms Wave for 2008 (you can get it here as part of your Forrester subscription or for about $800). The folks at Forrester do a pretty thorough job of reviewing platforms for these Wave reports – actually getting vendors in to work [...]

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Forrester, business rules and 2008

December 21, 2007

I was fortunate enough to get a preview of some new research from John Rymer of Forrester this week – Trends: Business Rules Platforms 2008. As usual John has written an interesting piece and it is well worth reading and buying. Setting the need for more dynamic applications and the need to automate more complex [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – A framework for selecting business rules platforms

October 22, 2007

I am attending the 10th annual Business Rules Forum this week and blogging from sessions as I go. The show really starts tomorrow but John Rymer of Forrester presented a tutorial today – A framework for selecting business rules platforms.
John presented the criteria for the wave report – Forrester’s way of evaluating vendors – rather [...]

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