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I liked Appian’s post on cloud smoke screens – they make some good points.  Of course, we here at BP-3 we are not a BPM software vendor and we are limited in our ability to address these concerns.  However as … Continue reading →

BP Labs and Innovation One of the great advantages of focus is being able to solve the deep problems.  Not just the superficial problems- but the really difficult ones.  When we started BP3, we determined to really invest in BPM, … Continue reading →

Anatoly posted about Process and Data in “Process Meets Data” – and explains several approaches to process data employed by tools he’s worked with: Flat list of attributes XML document Entity-attribute-value Database by reference attribute Native relational database It got … Continue reading →

I have to hand it to Jakob and Camunda – they have taken on a seemingly monumental task of integrating 8 different BPMN modelers with Camunda Fox. First things first: I tried 8 different BPMN tools and created a demo … Continue reading →

Eat your own lunch… Before someone else does. Great article “Someone is Coming to Eat You” – relating the story of the iPod Mini circa 2005: One of my favorite Apple product announcements happened on September 7, 2005. In an … Continue reading →

Joram Barrez has a really interesting post about process performance with Activiti.  It doesn’t compare the engine to other products- but it does compare different configurations of the product.  Its the kind of internal performance testing that is pretty interesting … Continue reading →

Jim Sinur’s blog has a few choice comments about Red Hat and BPM: My mission at the Red Hat Summit was to find out the state of process and the likely hood that Red Hat will compete favorably in the … Continue reading →

MWD covered the TIBCO “Transform” event in London.  It was a traveling event (Sydney, London, Paris, etc.) and MWD were able to attend as a team. It is a good read, and there were a few highlights that really jumped … Continue reading →

Chris Dixon’s thought-provoking post, “Why the integrated approach to mobile devices is winning” does one thing really well:  it explains why everyone thought the non-integrated approach was going to win in mobile devices.  But I don’t think it explains sufficiently … Continue reading →

Following up on her excellent coverage of ISIS Papyrus, Sandy Kemsley had another great scoop in covering DST Technologies’ conference, and specifically covering AWD, their BPM offering. As Sandy says: AWD from DST Technologies is one of those well-kept secrets … Continue reading →

One of the invaluable contributions independent consultants like Sandy make to the field of BPM is cross-pollinating information between otherwise disconnected communities. One of the products I’ve been curious about for years – ever since I started participating in the … Continue reading →

The kickingbear blog has a reminder to Apple fans of Three Things that Should Trouble Apple: Content Management – develop relationships directly with the creatives iTunes – as a media hub, iTunes is losing favor. People – do more to … Continue reading →

[Update: WWDC has started- and so far no mention of third-party Siri integration.  Looks like Apple went with the more conservative option of only expanding to specific third parties, e.g. Yelp.  Maybe something new will be announced before the end … Continue reading →

Bruce Silver continues to improve his BPMN model validation.  The key is that he focuses on correct syntax AND correct style. OK, problem solved, right?  I still want more. There are still categories of errors that the tool does not … Continue reading →

About 6 months ago I became so impressed with the Kickstarter process that I wrote: Yesterday’s post on the Cosmonaut has me thinking about how new products are developed and released into the wild.  We focus so much on startups … Continue reading →

Neil Ward-Dutton of MWD Advisors weighs in on Impact and IBM BPM v8.  I’ll share a few of my thoughts here as well… So it’s a couple of weeks now since IMPACT (at least for me – I was only … Continue reading →

John Reynolds, on process collaboration: [...] What’s really important to me about this scenario is how closely it matches the way most Knowledge Workers really work.  If anything is unclear, Knowledge Workers reach out to someone else and collaborate with … Continue reading →

There’s just no way to do justice to the BP Mobility offering without having a demo to envision it.  And demonstrating a multi-device mobile app is a bit of a challenge on a Webex – and on most videoconference calls, … Continue reading →

A new round of Apple rumors is circulating.  This time the focus is on iOS 6 and replacing Google Maps with Apple’s own implementation of maps: More interesting to me is the implication of this switch. Let’s assume that alongside … Continue reading →

Sandofsky’s blog of the same name, Apps vs The Web, he makes a couple of points that perfectly capture my feelings about purpose-built mobile apps for BPM.  First, on the question of Apps vs Web: People conflate “apps vs the … Continue reading →

While most presentations are available on IBM’s Impact resources site, we thought we’d share the presentations that we “own” here as well. We posted them on SlideShare, but unfortunately a few things are lost in the conversion (slide transitions, some … Continue reading →

Well, this was quite a surprise, from Progress: Divest Non-core Product Lines. Progress will divest ten non-core product lines: Actional, Artix, DataXtend, FuseSource, ObjectStore, Orbacus, Orbix, Savvion, Shadow and Sonic.  Each of these product lines are strong and viable, however, … Continue reading →

I guess I’d forgotten how busy the Sunday before Impact really is.  Business Partner sessions start at 9:30 and last all day.  Then there’s the Solution Center reception at 5pm, and then of course, there’s finishing those presentations that you’re … Continue reading →

We’re co-presenting with two great BPM and Mobile advocates from IBM – Greg Harley and Eric Wayne.  We have a three-part presentation prepared: to cover the core IBM BPM product support for REST APIs and Mobile, to cover how we … Continue reading →

[Note: this is a repost of a guest post on the IBM Impact Blog - thankyou to Shaku Selvakumar for inviting me to share on the blog!] Why We’re Excited about Impact Last year we went to IBM Impact and … Continue reading →

Keith Swenson covered the AIIM2012 Ted Schadler Keynote in his blog, and a few passages jumped out at me: He presented a slide showing how dramatically the world has changed since 2007, only 5 years ago.  At that time there … Continue reading →

Great post from Matt Drance a while back on Components. Specifically, Apple’s approach to components: Similar to the 2008 PA Semi acquisition, the Anobit acquisition highlights a continued priority on internalizing improvements to hardware. Most people think of Apple as … Continue reading →

Nobody “Won”… PandoDaily columnist Erin Griffith’s post The Year Nobody “Won” SXSW is a good read.  Really good.  Just like all of her other work on daily recaps at SXSW(Tuesday’s recap included the CNN+Mashable rumor for example).  She’s right that … Continue reading →

Activiti 5.9 is out. I almost missed the announcement, but wanted to post it here. It is another good turn of the wheel on the Activiti offering, Some of the additionss are significant (persistent event subscriptions, multiple start events, etc.) … Continue reading →

Always a sucker for interesting new tech, I  pre-ordered a Lytro camera last year.  It finally showed up yesterday. Recommending the Lytro: Really interesting takes on camera technology only come around so often.  Light Field just seemed like one of … Continue reading →

Amazon’s new Simple WorkFlow service (SWF) is an interesting development for sure.  Several analysts weighed in on the development. First up, Derek Miers of Forrester: So Amazon is obviously looking for large scale and transaction throughput. Indeed, this is a … Continue reading →

Square has always been an interesting startup.  Attempting to disrupt how payments are made is non-trivial.  They started with the little add-on device for swiping credit cards – attacking the merchant side of the equation.  As a customer, it really … Continue reading →

Neil Ward-Dutton of MWD Advisors is attempting to uncover for their customers the true differentation between BPM vendors.  This isn’t easy – partly because they can all hide behind a common modeling paradigm (BPMN, among others), and an expert in … Continue reading →

What a great blog post from Chris Dixon, “Who should learn how to program?” : Businesses all over the world need more programmers. Every company I know is hiring engineers (e.g. see this list of NY tech startups). Top programmers … Continue reading →

The highlight (for me) of last year’s SXSW-interactive conference was the Lean Startup SXSW – a whole day of planned content, mainly in one room (in the AT&T executive center) focused on the idea of “the lean startup”.  Eric Ries … Continue reading →

Editor’s note: This is reposted with permission of the Author.  Gary Samuelson’s original post can be found here. Forward If you haven’t already done so I highly recommend you “tool up” for iOS (iPhone) or Android development. Speaking more on … Continue reading →

I liked Dave Brakoniecki’s analysis of OpenText’s December comments on their BPM strategy. Like Dave, I find it interesting that they think they’ll be most often running into Pega and IBM.  Dave’s thoughts: OpenText probably need to acquire some rules … Continue reading →

IBM has released a new update to BlueworksLive, on December 17th.  We had a preview just two days before it went live to discuss some of the thought behind the features. What interests me isn’t just the outcome but the … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s post on the Cosmonaut has me thinking about how new products are developed and released into the wild.  We focus so much on startups and processes in the software and virtual world, but Kickstarter has exposed a new process … Continue reading →

(Editors note: this is part product review, part examination of a new process emerging) Well, we know Steve Jobs was not a big fan of the stylus.  And I’m happy Apple didn’t design touch interfaces that required them.  But like … Continue reading →

There are lots of arguments for and against Apple’s integrated approach.  As I recall from economics and watching certain industries, there’s an efficiency to horizontal scaling of an industry. But, we’ve seen the design benefits of the integrated approach with … Continue reading →

Analysts were predicting more consolidation in 2011, and it looks like the late-year acquisitions are happening again. First, doc capture specialist Kofax has acquired Singularity, a BPM and case management provider.  Kofax has been part of many a BPM project, … Continue reading →

Interesting review from John Reynolds, of the Kindle Fire.  He’s underwhelmed mainly by the form factor, and the lack of access to non-Amazon content. People often criticize Apple as having a “walled garden” – but if you read the following … Continue reading →

Bruce Silver reports that IBM is following through on its promises with respect to BPMN 2.0 in its next release, IBM BPM 7.5.1, which ships this week. Not that IBM is covering EVERY corner of BPMN 2.0, but it is … Continue reading →

I got a kick out of reading Ben Farrell’s post on Appian’s blog today,  “What a Difference a BPM Software Acquisition Makes: A Look into the Wayback Machine“.  I think Ben thinks he’s really caught out Phil Gilbert, formerly President … Continue reading →

Bruce has left no stone un-turned in his review of IBM BPM 7.5.  In his words: IBM is the big dog in the BPMS landscape.  BPM 7.5 combines the old WebSphere Lombardi Edition and WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition (aka Process … Continue reading →

So John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame picks up on Seth Weintraub’s report that two-thirds of Google’s mobile search revenue comes from iOS devices.  John’s analysis echoes our own thoughts on the subject: I’ve speculated for years that by making … Continue reading →

Well, if Sandy doesn’t have the best coverage of the conference, it is by far the best coverage of the bloggers I follow. First up:  IBM Case Manager, IBM Content Manager, and IBM BPM –   Extend IBM BPM processes … Continue reading →

Steve Blank’s two-part series on the iPhone is definitely “a different perspective”: The concept of yearly “improvements”, whether styling or incremental technology improvements, every model year gave GM an unbeatable edge in the market. (Henry Ford hated the idea. He … Continue reading →

Jacob Ukelson has a fantastic critique of Agile Software – he lists the 4 pillars of Agile, but then points out: These are all good, important points but they ignore the business perspective! [...] Business Value. Software must deliver business … Continue reading →