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An interesting poll on data miners and PMML

August 7, 2008

PMML – The Predictive Modeling Markup Language – is the primary XML format for describing predictive analytic models so that a modeling tool can share a model with either another modeling tool or, more usefully, with a deployment environment. The folks over at KDNuggets recently ran a poll asking their readers about their use of [...]

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First thoughts on the IBM/ILOG announcement

July 28, 2008

I got a chance to speak with ILOG today and do some thinking so it’s time to write more about the IBM and ILOG announcement. As it is an acquisition of one publicly traded company by another neither company can legally say very much. As a result I, like everyone else, have a bunch of [...]

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Breaking News – IBM to buy ILOG!

July 28, 2008

Just heard that ILOG is going to be acquired by IBM! I don’t have any more detail yet but hopefully the folks at ILOG and IBM will brief me sometime soon…..

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Information as a Service

May 23, 2008

Mike Gilpin and Noel Yuhanna gave a presentation on how informaton-as-a-service can help your projects and applications. Many SOA implementations were focused on transactional solutions but Forrester found that many used the same service infrastructure to expose information – e.g. a customer update service which exposes the current address also. Theme: Information-as-a-service (IaaS) offers to [...]

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Lessons Learned from BPM Deployments

May 23, 2008

Ken Vollmer kicked off the last day of the event with a view from the field – a survey on BPM that Forrester did at the end of 2007. The theme is that “BPM has already achieved mainstream status inside of most enterprises but we still have a long way to go to achieve the [...]

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Integrating the enterprise and fueling innovation

May 22, 2008

Mark Hennessy the CIO from IBM presented on his perspective on the changing role of the CIO. An IBM survey in 2005 found that of CEOs 80% thought IT had to be aligned to be successful but only 45% thought this was something they did well. More recent surveys showed CIOs feeling that this was [...]

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The New Enterprise Data Center (IBM)

May 20, 2008

Rich Lechner of IBM came next, talking about the new enterprise and it’s new enterprise data center. Supporting business innovation is impacted, he said, by three things:

Globalization
The change from an exporter to a multi-country set of counties to a truly globally integrated enterprise – tapping into new talent pools around the world.
Rising tide of information
More [...]

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Live from InterACT – Automate, Improve and Connect

April 29, 2008

Paul Daro was next giving some detail around the new architecture (introduced by Bernhard Nann). A number of trends were identified first:

Clearly the move to a collection of services from monolithic applications has fundamentally changed the relationship of vendors to customers – now more about delivering services that can be fitted in to an overall [...]

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(Not) Live from IMPACT – a blogger wrap

April 14, 2008

As I could not attend all of IMPACT 2008 and as there were hundreds of sessions, I thought I would post as complete a set of posts as I could (with help from Dan Zrobok), starting with mine:

Blogging Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part I
Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part II
Live from IMPACT [...]

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Live from IMPACT – End to End Process Visibility

April 8, 2008

Last session for me today, indeed the last session before I go home, is Janelle Hill of Gartner and Kramer Reeves of IBM on improving agility through end-to-end process agility. Janelle went first sharing Gartner’s BPM Scenario for the next five years. She had two initial points:

In 2013, do you know where your work is?
How [...]

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Live from IMPACT – Business Event Processing

April 8, 2008

Ed Lynch, from the AptSoft acquisition, was on next for me talking about using Business Event Processing for an agile business response. This was interesting given IBM’s recent announcements on business event processing.
Charles Brett from Forrester began with an overview of Event Processing. Charles, like many, assumed that event processing was a narrowly focused approach [...]

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Live from IMPACT – Customer Panel on Driving Alignment

April 8, 2008

After the keynote it is back to the other end of the MGM Grand to attend a customer panel on business/IT alignment. Amy Wohl is the host and she blogs here. BTW I may not finish the whole session as I have to go sign the book at the bookstore at the show. I am [...]

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Live from IMPACT – Other bloggers

April 7, 2008

Thanks to Dan I discovered a number of other bloggers covering IMPACT:

Michael Cote (Redmonk)
Dana Gardner
Juris Kaža

Bob Balfe
James Governor
Bill Newport

A number of us are also twittering and you can find a summary of our impact 2008 posts here.

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Live from IMPACT – Multi-channel retailing on SOA

April 7, 2008

Erik Klein from the WebSphere Commerce group at IBM and Scott Young from a consultant. Erik started by discussing the inhibitors to moving to multi-channel and customer-centric. These include:

Siloed business units
Applications that don’t integrate or support multi-channel operations
Redundant data in multiple systems, no single version of the truth

The different domains – web, store and enterprise [...]

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Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part II

April 7, 2008

It turns out they are going to move the schedule back to allow for the overrun in the keynotes so I have some time to catch up.
So, Steve Mills. Steve re-iterated the power of business and IT alignment, again quoting the LSE / McKinsey study that shows such alignment doubles productivity (I am looking for [...]

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Blogging Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part I

April 7, 2008

I am attending the IBM IMPACT show today and tomorrow and will try and blog live from the show. So far the wireless isn’t working in the keynote location (I am on my broadband wireless modem, thank you Verizon) and the room has no tables and no power for the HUGE number of laptop users [...]

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Live from DAMA – IBM Metadata Strategy – An Information Management Perspective

March 19, 2008

Last up for me today were some folks from IBM on IBM Metadata Strategy – An Information Management Perspective. IBM’s focus is Information on Demand – getting information about of the data management layer and into an integration layer from which it can be delivered as business intelligence and performance management. I, of course, would [...]

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Presentations from the SOA Consortium

January 3, 2008

The folks at OMG have just published the presentations from the recent SOA Consortium meeting. I blogged about some of these – a discussion of CIO concerns about SOA and Sandy Carter of IBM. You can find the following PDFs on the OMG site:

Sandy Carter of IBM, Keynote on SOA Skills
Judith Hurwitz of Hurwitz & [...]

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Live from the SOA Consortium – Sandy Carter of IBM

December 12, 2007

I am attending the SOA Consortium meeting that is co-located with the OMG in Burlingame this week. The SOA Consortium was founded in 2007 and has grown from 11 to 81 members already. They do podcasts, case studies and work with people like Gartner to co-locate events around SOA and BPM.
Sandy Carter of IBM was [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum – Insurance 2020: Innovating Beyond Old Models

October 23, 2007

Jamie Bisker was up after lunch talking about Insurance 2020: Innovating Beyond Old Models. Jamie used to be a Tower Group analyst and now works for IBM in their Institute for Business Value (I blogged about his reports before). Studied future customers and their needs, how automation is flattening the competitive environment, what fundamental trends [...]

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