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BonitaSoft announced last week that they raised a third round, $13M, from several parties last week.  Apparently BPM startups are still investable!  And apparently BPM isn’t dead yet (sarcasm alert!).  BonitaSoft has been one of the most successful open source … Continue reading →

Today (yesterday by the time you read this) Obama came to visit Austin. Pretty exciting.  One of his stops was Capital Factory, one of the incubator/co-working spaces in Austin that was co-founded by my friend Joshua Baer.  Lori Hawkins covered … Continue reading →

We’re proud to announce that our very own Rich Phillips has joined forces with Kramer Reeves and Peter Fingar to produce a soon-to-be-published book entitled “The COO Revolution: Reinventing Customer-Facing Processes for Moments of Truth”. Rich is one of the … Continue reading →

As long as I can remember, Jim Sinur has been writing about BPM.  On his blog yesterday he announced that he’s retiring on May 1st: It’s been a great run, here at Gartner, but all good things must end. I … Continue reading →

I hope someone writes about this that knows more about RunMyProcess and Fujitsu’s offerings than I do.  But today I saw in the news that Fujitsu has acquired the French startup (details remain private): The acquisition will also allow Fujitsu … Continue reading →

Ivan Kornienko and I presented “BPM for Mobile, Mobile for BPM” at bpmNEXT on March 20th.  We walked through our thought process around mobile as it relates to BPM, shortcomings of the current approaches (as we see it), and some … Continue reading →

I flew up with Ivan Kornienko to the Asilomar conference facility in California on Tuesday – for the brand-new bpmNEXT conference.  The conference, as you may know, is hosted by Nathaniel Palmer and Bruce Silver. We started out in style … Continue reading →

I missed the news from a week ago that Pegasystems had reported 4th Quarter and Fiscal Year 2012 numbers.  Revenue was up 25% for the fourth quarter, year-over-year.  Fourth quarter net income was $20M, compared to a loss of nearly … Continue reading →

Great article in the Statesman on Sunday about Thinktiv, by perhaps Austin’s best connected tech reporter, Lori Hawkins.  It centers on how Thinktiv is revising the startup process for their customers: “I knew exactly what the software would do and … Continue reading →

Last year I was honored (and surprised) to be named an IBM Websphere Champion. I didn’t quite realize at the time how selective the program is (and consequently, it is a small number of champions).  Moreover, you have to re-qualify … Continue reading →

It has been a banner year for BP3 – we grew over 25% year-over-year and finished the year strong – our last three months were our best months of the whole year.  January and February look to be more of … Continue reading →

The USA Today has a much-retweeted article with some great soundbite material from Marc Andreesen, who is widely respected in startup and venture circles, for good reason. The money quote is this one: “The spread of computers and the Internet … Continue reading →

(On the heels of the Apple Comes to Austin post… ) Forbes has published a great article about John Price and Austin: Trilogy reached about $15 million in sales in 1994 and Price was concerned that it couldn’t grow anymore … Continue reading →

Good update on the new Apple Campus in Austin: Preliminary on the new 39-acre campus began in the last few weeks, according to Wired. The new facility will be an expansion of Apple’s existing operations center in Austin, which employs … Continue reading →

If anyone is reinventing the venture capital process, it would have to be Andreessen Horowitz (a16z for the spelling challenged or localization-software-inclined).  A recent post by Chris Dixon underlines that fact, as he announces that he’s joining their firm: Earlier … Continue reading →

These raises might not make the news in Silicon Valley but each one is the seed of something bigger brewing in Austin.  The ABJ does a good job covering the local business news and startup news: At least five Austin-area … Continue reading →

Reading my friend Thom Singer’s blog was the first place that I found out Bryan Menell is now CEO of SublteData – congratulations to both sides of that connection! Bryan Menell has recently taken the reigns as CEO of a … Continue reading →

This is the year for analyst and blogger coverage of previously little-known BPM software providers.  Or newly formed BPM providers, as you might argue with Bosch Software Innovations, who surprised everyone by showing up on the Gartner MQ report for … Continue reading →

Austin just keeps adding jobs: The Austin area added 23,800 jobs between September 2011 and the same month this year, according to an analysis of the latest data for all 102 markets with more than 500,000 residents.The 3.8 percent gain … Continue reading →

Well this looks interesting.  Keith Swenson has a good writeup on his blog – The BPM Next conference is being organized by two luminaries in the field as a chance to meet the other gurus.  It is shaping up to … Continue reading →

Question asked, question answered: The 2013 South By Southwest Interactive Festival has landed one of the mind behind a space startup and an electric sports car manufacturer as one of its four keynote speakers. Billionaire Elon Musk is CEO and … Continue reading →

No one was more excited than my children about the fact that Lucasfilm (along with Star Wars) was purchased by Disney. Disney announced today it will buy Lucasfilm for $4 billion in cash and stock. George Lucas, the creator of … Continue reading →

KUT News asks the question: Is Austin a Tech Center or a Tech Colony? It starts with a predictable premise: Almost every day we hear about out-of-town tech companies opening branch offices in Austin.  What does that mean? Could the … Continue reading →

So Apple had some news today.  Easy to miss with Sandy bearing down on the East Coast. I don’t have any inside sources at Apple.  Or any inside scoop on Forstall or Cook.  Gruber and others have that covered better … Continue reading →

We’re proud to announce that Rich Phillips is joining BP3 as Chief Strategy Officer. Lance and I were fortunate enough to get to know Rich while he was an executive at a Lombardi customer.  We couldn’t be more excited about … Continue reading →

It looks like San Francisco is having conflicting feelings about the tech boom.  San Francisco Magazine has a long read entitled “How Much Tech Can One City Take?” With the ominous subtitle: “Shaken by the latest digital gold rush, San … Continue reading →

BP3 placed #11 in last year’s list, but this year we were up a couple of notches to #8 in the “Under $10M” category of the Austin Business Journal’s Fast 50 listing.  We went to the reception last week and … Continue reading →

Well this was a surprise.  Austin-based Trilogy Enterprises just announced that it is purchasing 4 of Progress Software’s business units: Sonic Savvion Actional DXSL Wait. Savvion?  Yes, Savvion.  Trilogy is getting into the BPM business… The four units will be … Continue reading →

These guys are really killing it, and it makes me proud to know a few of them well.  I don’t know what Michael Griffin’s early pitch to each of these key hires was, but he has absolutely leveraged them to … Continue reading →

Jim is taking note of something that I’ve been talking about ever since I started to get a sense of it after the Lombardi acquisition – that IBM was betting bigger on process than you would expect if they only … Continue reading →

This is part 3, and probably the last in the series on the Gartner Magic Quadrant on Intelligent Business Process Management Suites. The three Vendors That Matter are: Pegasystems Appian IBM Roughly in that order in terms of how Gartner … Continue reading →

Progress Software CEO resigns as the company warns on revenue for this quarter: Bhatt joined Progress last December after Richard Reidy, the company’s CEO for two years, stepped down. Earlier this year, Chief Financial Officer Charles Wagner left the company.“My … Continue reading →

For two Austin companies in the news today. First, Calxeda has raised a monster $55M to keep investing in ARM-technology for data centers.  Austin has long had a reputation for excellent chip design talent, and hardware talent.  Because not every … Continue reading →

I thought we could spend another post picking at the Magic Quadrant further – both where it might be right (and why), and where it might be too optimistic or pessimistic. Looking at the vendors outside of the three Vendors … Continue reading →

Author’s Note: This is part 1 of a write-up on reactions to the Gartner Magic Quadrant.  It seems enough of a change to warrant more than one post.  I saw the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for BPM – correction, Intelligent … Continue reading →

The iOS6 release has two “killer” features in its maps implementation: Beautiful (and useful) 3D renderings of cities. Turn-by-turn navigation.  Good article on TUAW about this navigation issue. What’s the one big thing that Android devices — since 2.0, in … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: Following up on the last post, this one seemed appropriate to post next… Indeed was just purchased by Recruit Co. Ltd of Japan.  Whether you like Indeed’s service or not, you have to admire how they went about … Continue reading →

Laura Beck wrote a great piece for Austin Startup the other day.  She was responding to an August TechCrunch story about Lyft, and the apparently blown PR embargo at launch. Both of them are great reads, for different reasons.  The … Continue reading →

Why, BP3 is, in the Daily Texan Online, which is running a story about the expansion of tech companies in Austin and the impact on employment for graduates.  The article makes several good points about Apple, GM, and others, but … Continue reading →

There are lots of great startups in Austin these days.  Lots of great startup ideas even.  But the most important startups, for my money, are the ones that serve great food: “We were down there having a beer,” Schmidt-Franks says, … Continue reading →

In a post from three-and-a-half(!) years ago entitled “Apple and Business Process Management” I posited that each release of a new product would attack a product from one of several perspectives, or from several perspectives at once.  Let’s give ourselves … Continue reading →

I have to say I really appreciate the opportunity to get everyone at BP3 together in one place, at least once a year.  As much as we tout the virtual, home-office model of the modern world, people are social, physical … Continue reading →

The Austin Business Journal just announced a preview of the companies in their Austin Fast 50 list.  We’ll find out where we fit in on October 18th.  We’re also adding 2416 sqft  to our current digs in the Plaza 7000 … Continue reading →

I haven’t spent as much time this year as in previous years discussing ACM because for the most part, ACM advocates have stopped spending all their time trying to prove that BPM “can’t do” ACM. Sandy Kemsley, however, attended the … Continue reading →

I think Neil Ward-Dutton’s coverage of Savvion was kinder than Progress likely deserve right now: The announcement of Savvion’s divestiture was one of the biggest surprises within Progress Software’s strategic about-turn. The BPM vendor’s founder is busy building momentum so … Continue reading →

There have been a few ebizQ BPM discussions lately that I haven’t added to but which I think are worth reading because the most important perspectives have been well represented and argued. First, there’s the “What does it mean to … Continue reading →

I think everyone is aware of the great impact the Lombardi acquisition had on IBM’s BPM offering and ODM offering.  But interesting news last week- I didn’t realize this news was public, and the only reference I’ve seen to it … Continue reading →

Like everyone else at Impact, we were excited about the announcement of IBM BPM v8.0.  We’ve been looking forward to get a project live on v8 ever since it came out. And now, BP3 is proud to announce what we … Continue reading →

The Challenge: Deploying BPM in the Cloud We’re all familiar with the challenges of managing enterprise software deployments. IBM BPM is far from the most difficult enterprise software to install, yet even so it is a challenge for customers to … Continue reading →

There’s just something fascinating to me about these non-tech startups in Austin.  Not that they don’t use technology, and not that they aren’t innovative.  But that they aren’t selling “tech products”. The latest example is Margarita’s Tortilla Factory which is … Continue reading →