Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’

5th May 2009

Dynamic Business Processes and IBM BlueWorks

Craig Hayman presented some interesting statistics to kick off – 83% of CEOs expect significant change yet 76% of IT budgets is spent on maintenance. BPM BlueWorks is one of IBM’s new products – very like AlignSpace – and Craig kicked off a demo. The web environment provides lots of information about process modeling and [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM | 2 Comments

10th March 2009

First Look – AlignSpace

I had an interesting chat with Miko Matsumura VP and Deputy CTO of Software AG the other day. While we ranged widely, the official topic was Software AG’s launch of AlignSpace. AlignSpace is a hosted “Social BPM” solution supporting collaborative process discovery. The idea is that it will combine:

Social networking (around process definitions)
Collaborative design of [...]

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20th February 2009

The unrealized power of data

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
Andreas Weigend, former amazon.com Chief Scientist, gave a keynote on the unrealized power of data. He started with a historical perspective. In the 70s perhaps 10M used computers, mostly in the back office. By the 80s this had reached 100M and the front office. By the 90s the internet and search [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Strategy | 0 Comments

5th February 2009

DIALOG Group RCI and Legacy Migration

Frank DiGiovanni of Group RCI (a vacation exchange and vacation rental company, part of Wyndham Worldwide) presented on their journey  – a legacy modernization using ILOG Rules. Frank  identified SOA, legacy migration from mainframe to SOA and how business rules complements these as his key topics. Group RCI’s core problem was threefold:

Members: had to call [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management | 0 Comments

4th February 2009

DIALOG Product Roadmap (not really)

Nicolas Robbe came next to give some updates on the product roadmaps. To be honest what he mostly did was summarize recent developments – nothing really about futures.
First he talked about optimization and CPLEX’s 20 year history. With CPLEX 11 they feel they can solve 70% of the very hardest optimization problems – way up [...]

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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization | 0 Comments

19th December 2008

Decision Services as agile, intelligent agents

Two articles I saw recently (Is SOA Enabling Intelligent Agents? and Three Keys to Enabling Agile Business Services) made me think about decision services in the context of agility and of so-called “intelligent agents”. Clearly SOA, web 2.0 and network-centric…

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posted by James Taylor in Business Rules, Decision Management | 1 Comment

7th October 2008

Live from the SOA Symposium – Opening Keynotes

The SOA Symposium started today in the AJAX Stadium in Amsterdam. The opening keynotes were actually in the Stadium itself – we all sat at the halfway line. Thomas Erl and Sandy Carter gave quick intros and I will add some comments later but I could not type so this is just a placeholder have [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Decision Management | 1 Comment

8th September 2008

Multi-Channel Marketing (Lessons from the CMO Summit #2)

My second set of thoughts were prompted by notes on a presentation by the CMO of Walmart.com, Cathy Halligan. She began by noting that they no longer see a digital divide   – there is a big percentage overlap between their online and offline shoppers.In addition, online activities are increasingly influencing offline purchase patterns [...]

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7th July 2008

Here’s why decisions matter to the 8 Ps of Marketing

Some time ago I saw an article that discussed the 8Ps (4 old, 4 new) of Marketing. It seemed to me that decision making, especially operational/transactional decision making is critical to most of these Ps. Here, then, is my summary of the 8Ps and why decisions, and decision management, matter.
4 Ps

Product
You might think that [...]

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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Decision Management, Optimization | 1 Comment

18th June 2008

First Look – Jaspersoft v3

In keeping with the open source theme this week (given I am at Intalio’s user conference), a quick note about Jaspersoft who just released version 3. This version puts a nice web 2.0 interface on a browser-based product. There’s a nice dashboard with some mashup capabilities and input controls that can be dragged and dropped [...]

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