Tags / Sandy Kemsley

We had a great first day at IBM Impact.  The day started off feeling like a bit of a Lombardi reunion as we kept running into people we know from those days.  But it wasn’t long before we were setting … Continue reading →

It has been a flurry of BPM announcements of late.  First, Effektif announces, now Camunda.  Camunda has been a major partner for jBPM and Activiti, and has now branched out to support their own BPM “stack” called Camunda (previously references … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley’s writeup of IBMConnect highlights and updates is worth reading.  There are a couple of nuggets in particular to entice you to read the post: I don’t know a lot about HR systems, although I’m seeing a huge potential … Continue reading →

Appian reported results for Q4 and 2012 that indicate BPM is anything but dead.  We already knew it wasn’t dead for IBM and Pega, but it isn’t even dead for the independent software vendors like Appian!  Of course, they are … Continue reading →

bpmNEXT is coming March 19-21, at Asilomar Conference Center on the Monterey Peninsula.  I’m excited to be attending, but also honored to be presenting.  I like that Bruce and company have taken a different approach to this conference: No how-tos, … 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 →

So we’ve covered Jim Sinur’s thoughts, and we’ve covered Bruce Silver’s.  Now it is time to take a look at what Sandy Kemsley had to say about it. The short version: Sandy gives the overall approach of analyst day and … Continue reading →

Well.  This was a pleasant surprise.  At the end of one of Keith Swenson’s posts on ACM, he wrote this: ClarificationSome have thought that what I mean here is about underlying technology “under the covers”.   As if this was a … 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 →

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 →

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 →

About a month ago, Sandy Kemsley attended Progress Revolution – first giving an intro-to-BPM course and then blogging about the sessions she attended.  The whole series of posts is worth reading, and I thought a few highlights from her coverage … Continue reading →

We’re well-overdue to comment on the Forrester BPF 2011 event, partly because we weren’t in attendance this year.  To make up for lost time, we’re linking here to some of the best coverage of the event that we saw in … Continue reading →

Sandy has published a review of Active Endpoints’ CloudExtend, an extension of the SalesForce platform that ads some BPM capabilities to the SalesForce platform.  Interestingly it looks like it is deployed “alongside” SalesForce as opposed to being “on” the SalesForce … Continue reading →

There were several reports about BPM spending going into next year, mostly based on the Gartner report to that effect.  Much of the commentary around this report seemed to be to treat it with cynicism: “I think this is the … Continue reading →

John Reynolds, commenting on Sandy Kemsley’s blog, where she was writing about Shell’s BPM success story: Note that Sandy’s tale mentions Templates, but it doesn’t say a thing about Frameworks… and to me that’s very significant… As a Professional Programmer, … Continue reading →

A few great blog posts covering IRM BPM Europe.  This is a joint EA and BPM conference that was quite well attended by people I follow in the BPM space, but we weren’t able to attend this year.  A few … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley’s blog on BPMS pricing, she points out that pricing is still incredibly opaque.  There’s also a discussion on Quora that she refers to. The problems: Different vendors use different metrics to price (user, process, CPU, PVU, duration, etc. … Continue reading →

Good review of Bruce’s training: There are few people who have this depth of BPMN knowledge, and Bruce is the only one who I know who is doing this as a professional trainer: his is the only BPMN course that … Continue reading →

The early reviews of IBM BPM 7.5 were out last week, while IBM Impact was still in full swing.  It seems that the analysts in attendance were of differing opinions about the strength of IBM’s update to 7.5 – with … Continue reading →

Joe Heller, CIO of Caterpillar, gave an outstanding lesson in lasting business partnerships at IBM’s Impact conference on Day 1 (Monday, April 11th, 2011).  Joe was highly quotable (“There is dirt in the wrong place all over the world, and … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley has good coverage of the other conference going on this week in the BPM space: AppianWorld. Unlike Sandy, we weren’t about to try to do two conferences in one week! Three of her blogs on the conference: Gartner … Continue reading →

Jacob Ukelson’s post about extending Data Loss Prevention through ACM took time out to list out four areas of “process” work if you will: BPM (Business Process Management) – The focus is on structured data (forms) and structured flow. ECM … Continue reading →

Looks like the PKBoK and the ABPMP BoK may not play nice in the same sandbox.  PKI have their sights set on an open collaboration around a body of knowledge for BPM that is transparent and freely available, to advance … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley has exciting news-  the PKI Wiki is up: I’ve been a bit quiet on the Process Knowledge Initiative front lately due to other commitments, and lack of much public-facing progress in spite of the progress that we’d been … Continue reading →

This isn’t a review of Appian Tempo.  I’m a fan of what Appian is trying to do with Tempo and I hope there is more of this action in the BPM space. Sandy Kemsley has a thorough review on her … Continue reading →

Sandy once again puts her product review hat on and takes on HandySoft: To be clear, WebMaker is not a tool for non-technical people: although a trained business analyst could probably get through the initial screen designs, there is far … Continue reading →

We’d been waiting for Blueworks Live to go live ever since we first heard about it in November.  Now that it is actually live… well, now what? Why, review the reviews, of course! First up: Sandy Kemsley: Lombardi has always … Continue reading →

The Process Knowledge Initiative published a November update recently that had some interesting information about its structure and who the participants are. The core teams have been announced. Interestingly, the technical integration team will be working with “working groups” on … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley recently blogged about a session led by Bank of America’s Peter Braun, at CASCON.  The juicy part of her coverage is: They also have to deal with model governance to keep the WBM and IFW models in sync: … Continue reading →

I noticed a link to Sandy Kemsley’s Slideshare group for BPM, and thought I’d call it out in our blog for future reference (I believe it was a reference from Marco Brambilla that led me to this). It appears to … Continue reading →

Sandy attended a sneak peak of Blueworks Live recently, and has reported on it in her blog: They are trying to reinvent the public BPM community, while avoiding the problems that they perceive with other vendors’ community sites: They are … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley covered a few sessions at CASCON on her blog, and a few of them caught my attention.  In particular her blog of Richard Hull’s Keynote on Business Entities with Lifecycles.  Interesting take on present state of BPM: He … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley covered Janette Wong’s talk at CASCON recently. The point of the talk was to discuss applying workflow patterns to modeling business requirements, and turning those into executable business processes. A good bit of the commentary revolved around all … Continue reading →

Good article on BPTrends regarding BPM standardization, and what motivates it: Anyone involved in any aspect of a process change effort understands the need for a consistent use of basic terms to describe process work. Traditions like Lean, Six Sigma, … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley covers IBM’s Case Manager product: The end-user experience for Case Manager is in the IBM Mashup Center, a mashup/widget environment that allows the inclusion of both IBM’s widgets and any other that support the iWidget standard and expose … Continue reading →

What is Social? There’s been much discussion of late on “Social BPM“.  In particular, when should the magic “social” stuff happen – at design-time, or at run-time, of a process?  There has also been a significant overlap with discussion around … Continue reading →

Sandy has a good review of Metastorm’s M3 offering on her blog, posted on 7/30/2010. From her review, it sounds like Metastorm is focused on a Microsoft-platform strategy (Azure), which at this point is mostly collaborative business modeling, but as … Continue reading →

(Thanks to Sandy Kemsley for this link.) Ann All writes that companies are increasingly opting for automation over outsourcing: Is process automation the new offshoring? I made that case several months back, noting that companies may increasingly opt for automation … Continue reading →

Good coverage of Progress Software’s analyst day by Sandy Kemsley.  In particular, the coverage of the John Bates CTO talk and the wrap-up were the most interesting reads.  There’s obviously a good product-fit for Progress and Savvion and so their … Continue reading →

This isn’t particular or specific to the world of BPM conferences – there’s a general “conference malaise” going on – in which only the “best”  conferences are really tearing it up. Outside of the BPM world, its clear that conferences … Continue reading →

Sandy Kemsley has a few good updates on these topics. In the first, she releases a review on IBM’s BlueWorks online community for BPM.  Some of the interesting tidbits: IBM BlueWorks uses Flash.  Interestingly, Lombardi started with a flash interface … Continue reading →

Well, as Sandy Kemsley pointed out, this deal closed fast. Equally quickly, Lombardi shows how a SaaS product can catch up to the news (or at least start to), by releasing Blueprint to Websphere Business Modeler integration today. Good start … Continue reading →

Well, as predicted, the news of IBM acquiring Lombardi was quickly followed by more acquisition news:  today Progress Software announced an acquisition of Savvion. I can’t say that I’m surprised – adding BPM is a logical step for Progress, and … Continue reading →

The news hit the wire this morning (early for me, as I’m sitting in San Francisco this morning).  I got a phone call at about 5:20am PST to give me the news (thanks, I think?!). The Lombardi press release touts … Continue reading →

We’re pleased to announce the pricing for bpmCamp will be $100 for early-bird registration, and $150 after that. Early Bird registration ($100) ends January 1, 2010. Regular Registration ($150) closes January 21, 2010. bpmCamp 2010 @ Stanford will get started … Continue reading →

The BTF09 Event can be summarized in one word, literally:  LEAN. I have to hand it to Forrester, someone decided Lean was the message of the day, and they have delivered that message consistently.  You can find the feed on … Continue reading →