Where Social, BPM and Event Technologies Must Go
A trinity, that curious but powerful happening when three or more technologies converge, presents transformative opportunities for technology users. The one that’s been a staple of computing lately involves social, mobile and cloud technologies. Just look at how these three technologies, together, have changed how people communicate, share and provide feedback. Image courtesy of TechVentive, [...]
Appian Version 7 – It’s All About Social
Appian’s V7 is available for customer download this week, having been used by some initial customers as early as last month, and internally at Appian since October, but they don’t plan a big marketing push until the new year. However, I was able to listen in on a webinar for their customers yesterday that described [...]
Gartner iBPMS MQ Published
After something of a delay, and a great deal of consternation in the industry about this “new” BPMS magic quadrant, Gartner has finally published their magic quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites (iBPMS). Having had my fingers slapped in the past for publishing excerpts (which should be considered fair use), I won’t ruin the [...]
Impact of Social Technologies on the Enterprise
This year, almost all of my speaking engagements are related to social BPM. At Appian World in April, I gave a keynote on the impact of social technologies on the enterprise, particularly regarding social BPM, which Appian recorded and have made available on YouTube (it’s in several small pieces, likely due to YouTube’s publishing restrictions, [...]
Appian Tempo
I had a chance for an advance briefing of Appian’s Tempo release last week; this is a new part of the Appian product suite that focuses on mobility, cloud and social aspects of BPM for social collaboration. This isn’t a standalone social collaboration platform, but includes deep links into the Appian BPM platform through events, [...]
Appian Analyst Briefing: 2009 Overview and Future Outlook
Appian issued a press release last week on their growth in 2009, and had an analyst call today to provide more detail and answer questions. I attended their user conference in October, and was interested to hear their plans in the wake of recent BPM acquisitions.
In short, their 2009 performance was the best in their [...]
Fujitsu Interstage BPM in the Cloud
In the Fujitsu briefing last week, I also heard about their cloud BPM offering. Interstage BPM has supported multitenancy for some time, allowing them to provide private BPM cloud infrastructure, most commonly used by business process outsourcing firms. Multitenancy is a key feature of true software as a service: a single software instance supports multiple [...]
