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- Business Process
- An action taken in the course of conducting business. Whether manual or automated, all processes require input and generate output. Depending on the level of viewing and modeling,...
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- The awkward dance between BPM and SOA
- Does business process management BPM need SOA to go forward? Does SOA need BPM to be relevant? Are they one in the same? Or are they completely different animals?Depending upon whom you read, BPM is either worlds apart from SOA, or the two are fused right down to the...
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- SOA so simple even a caveman can do it?
- Is SOA fighting complexity with more complexity? For years, vendors have been promoting the thought that the complexities of IT infrastructure can be abstracted away, and even businesspeople or at least analysts would be able to design high-level business process flows while the technological underpinnings underneath automatically fall into place.The...
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- BEA exec: Get business users involved in app development
- Okay, lets review our checklist of who needs to be educated or enlightened about SOA. Unfortunately, it looks like everyone up and down the value chain, including IT:The financial community doesnt get SOA. Some CTOs are not enamored, as of yet, by SOA. Many IT professionals/architects arent ready with the...
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
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- 3 Minutes with Free Tool Can Save Thousands! The EBS ROI Tool quickly points out the benefits of upgrading to EBS R12 on IBM hardware. Uncover improved productivity and better value. See how you can improve decision-making while reducing your total cost of ownership through process efficiencies...
- Webcasts 2009-11-25
- Research paints ugly IT employment picture: Almost 2 million jobs gone in 14 years
- Depressing...So much innovation happened in America in the 90's. Alot of what we have now was accomplished by American engineers, and now we are not being included anymore because of what? Arbitrage. Sad, Sad, Sad....Of courseBecause all these CEOs and wannabe businesspeople think quality doesn't matter so...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0
- Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history. Â So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0. Â I'm...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- The Value of Talent Development: Your Guide to Strategic HR Practices
- Don't miss this practical guide to strategic HR practices. It shows you not only how to rethink your HR practices and policies, but also how to drive new processes — then align all of them to deliver real business results. You'll find out how to: Get more...
- White papers 2009-10-15
- Project Management: A Process for All Times
- History shows that many companies bi-pass project management during recessionary periods as a cost saving measure. And in growth periods, some companies apportion project management too thinly across their project portfolios. Either measure, when undertaken, is fraught with risks and potential for significant cost overruns. By design, companies undertake projects...
- White papers 2009-09-29
- SAP and SME's: an update
- I've just returned from spending a day immersed in SAP at a London hotel with European and South African SME customers, channel partners and the Business ByDesign team. It's been fascinating. While the focus was on ByDesign, I met with All-In-One customers. It provided a useful...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Crypto Obfuscator For .NET 2009 (Windows)
- Crypto Obfuscator For .Net provides advanced code protection, obfuscation and optimization for your .Net assemblies. Crypto Obfuscator combines powerful obfuscation, encryption and optimization techniques to provide the very best protection and performance to your .Net code against reverse-engineering. Additionally its metadata reduction, assembly & resource compression and dependency embedding functionality...
- Software downloads 2009-09-10
- Using social software to reinvent the customer relationship
- What IS Enterprise Web 2.0?[of course there IS no such thing, and if there is it is the crumpled Frankenstein that it suggests it is]"While Enterprise 2.0 tools, primarily aimed at collaboration, are certainly part of this story, they often don?t help companies enjoy the full range of possibilities when...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Open-Xchange and Social Networking
- they may not want their organizational data out there ...... but it already is anyhow.Organizations' social graph - much more than just their org chart ... - is neatly reflected in all the job titles, departmental information etc. you already find in abundance on social network servers all over the...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- IBM: re-training for our future
- IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- 10 reasons why e-readers make sense in the enterprise
- TechRepublic guest post: In case you haven’t heard, e-readers are making an impact. They’ve been around for some time, but only now (thanks, in part, to Amazon’s Kindle) are they being taken seriously. The e-readers’ biggest fan is the avid reader, but this doesn’t have to (and most likely won’t)...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computing
- Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computingVapor lock between Business Process and Social ComputingSimilar to the vapor lock between IT and Business, there's also a big gap in understanding and focus on how Social Computing accelerates process performance. The obsession around new metrics for adoption and new ROI standards...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Enterprise 2.0 ROI Metrics: One Size Doesn't Fit All
- 'The ROI of Online Customer Service communities' by Forrester customer experience and relationship management analyst Natalie Petouhoff is a $US 1,999 'Total Economic Impactâ„¢ Analysis' TEI report. Mike Krigsman over at his 'IT failures' blog here on ZD Net seems impressed by the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Six ways to run SOA as an internal cloud business
- We probably could argue for another 10 years about the ROI of SOA. Is there ROI? If so, why isn't there more of it? How do we measure it? How should SOA be sold to the business? Why won't the business provide more funding? Or, we could...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Cisco Releasing Sophisticated Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Your Business Value
- Cisco are releasing a 58 page report which details their 900 percent return on investment in collaboration and social networking and which details how they have successfully increased productivity, innovation and growth. The Report, 'Creating a Collaborative Enterprise: a Guide to Accelerating Business...
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
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