Sandy Kemsley
Independent analyst and systems architect specializing in business process management and Enterprise 2.0. Previously founded two successful product and service companies focusing on content management, BPM and e-commerce. Featured conference speaker on BPM and its impact on business, and writes the Column 2 blog on BPM and Enterprise 2.0.
SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse with HANA
Continuing in the SAP World Tour in Toronto today, I went to a breakout innovation session on NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) and HANA, with Steve Holder from their BusinessObjects center of excellence. HANA, in case you’ve been hiding from all SAP press releases in the past two years, is an analytic appliance (High-performance ANalytic Applicance, [...]
Catch Me Twice On “Webinar Week”
I’m presenting on two webinars this week. First, on Tuesday (tomorrow), I will be joining Jeremy Westerman of TIBCO to discuss the BPM issues and challenges specific to large enterprises. It’s at 11am Eastern (8am Pacific) on Tuesday, and you can sign up here. Then, on Wednesday, I’ll be presenting with Matt Cicciari of Progress [...]
What Analysts Need to Understand About Business Events
Paul Vincent, CTO of Business Rules and CEP at TIBCO (and possibly the only person at Building Business Capability sporting a bow tie), presented a less technical view of events that you would normally see in one of his presentation, intended to have the business analysts here at Building Business Capability understand what events are, [...]
Tracking Your Conference Social Buzz
I’m pretty active on social media: primarily, I blog and tweet, but I also participate in Foursquare, Facebook and, recently, the social conference site Lanyrd. When I was preparing for this week’s Building Business Capabilities conference in Fort Lauderdale, I added the sessions that I’ll be giving and a few others to the Lanyrd site [...]
OpenEdge BPM: Modifying an OE Application To Integrate With BPM
I sat in on a breakout session today at the Progress Revolution conference on OpenEdge BPM and migrating existing OpenEdge applications to work with (Savvion) BPM. There are some new ways of doing this that are coming in OE 11 that we are not seeing in this session, but I’ve had a few conversations with [...]
Progress Revolution Kicks Off: @RReidy and @DrJohnBates Keynotes
I arrived in Boston yesterday for Progress Software’s user conference, Revolution, and to deliver an Introduction to BPM workshop yesterday afternoon. With that out of the way, I can focus on the other speakers here, and what’s happening with Progress these days. The keynotes opened with Rick Reidy, the CEO, with a bit of history [...]
Introduction to BPM Workshop at Progress Revolution
I gave a workshop on Introduction to BPM at the pre-conference day yesterday for Progress Software’s user conference, Revolution: Introduction to BPM View more presentations from Sandy Kemsley. The room was full, well over 120 people, and I’ve had a lot of good feedback from the session. As always, I could have talked all day [...]
The Changing Nature of Work
I’ve been completely remiss with my blogging this week at the academic/research conference on BPM this week in Clermont-Ferrand, France. This isn’t for lack of good material from the workshops and presentations, but I’ve been a bit busy preparing for the keynote that I gave this morning: The Changing Nature of Work View more presentations [...]
Salesforce’s Peter Coffee On The Cloud
I just found my notes from a Salesforce.com lunch event that I went to in Toronto back in April, where Peter Coffee spoke enthusiastically while we ate three lovingly-prepared courses at Bymark, and was going to just pitch them out but found that there was actually quite a bit of good material in there. Not [...]
Can We Achieve (BPMS) Pricing Transparency?
I saw – and responded to – this question on Quora: What are the license fees / cost for the the top BPM solutions in the market ? ( Pegasystems, IBM ( Lombardi ) , Appian, Oracle , etc ) I am looking forward to do a benchmark of the top BPM ( Business Process [...]
