By Sandy Kemsley on March 15, 2010
A couple of months back, there was a private discussion amongst the Enterprise Irregulars about who Salesforce.com was going to buy next, and there was a thought in the back of my mind that it might be a BPM vendor. Since that time, two BPM vendors have been acquired, but not by Salesforce: instead, they [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged BPM, Cloud, Software design
By Sandy Kemsley on March 15, 2010
There has been much speculation in the BPM world about Software AG’s online BPM community, originally dubbed AlignSpace, or as it has been recently renamed, ARISalign. Originally launched in a private beta months ago, those of us on the outside have been anticipating a look at how they plan to “combine social networking tools with [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged BPM, Business process modeling, Cloud, process model, Social network, social software, Software release life cycle
By Sandy Kemsley on February 18, 2010
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I’ve spoken with a lot of cloud-based BPM vendors over the past few years, and I inevitably ask where their services are hosted. Since almost all of these are American companies, or are primarily targeting the American market, the answer is, almost inevitably, in the United States. I continue to point out that [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPM, Business process management, Canada, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Law, Privacy, United States
By Sandy Kemsley on February 16, 2010
I had a briefing a couple of weeks ago on IBM BlueWorks by Angel Diaz and Janine Sneed from the BlueWorks team. BlueWorks is IBM’s cloud-based BPM environment, providing the following capabilities:
Browser-based modeling, including strategy maps, capability maps, process maps and BPMN processes.
Pre-built content to supplement or replace a BPM center of excellence (CoE), including [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPM, Business process modeling, Cloud, Enterprise 2.0, ibm, IBM WebSphere, intellectual property, Process modeling
By Sandy Kemsley on February 11, 2010
I’m at the Software 2010 conference held by the Norwegian Computing Society in Oslo this week, and gave the opening keynote on one of the tracks this morning: how Business Process Management is being impacted by social software and social networking:
Business Process Management Meets Enterprise 2 0
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I gave a similar [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPM, Business process management, Enterprise 2.0, Oslo
By Sandy Kemsley on February 3, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged appian, BPM, Cloud, SaaS
By Sandy Kemsley on January 26, 2010
That was fast! Proving my predictions to be ever so inaccurate when I said that it could be months before this closed, the IBM acquisition of Lombardi has closed less than six weeks after it was announced. Good news for IBM, Lombardi, and Lombardi customers.
Not surprisingly, IBM has toned down the “departmental” rhetoric that they [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged BPM, Business process, ibm, Lombardi, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions
By Sandy Kemsley on January 11, 2010
BPM acquisitions must be in the air: today, Progress Software announced that they’ve bought Savvion for $49M. This is hot on the heels of IBM’s announcement last month that they’re buying Lombardi, with one huge difference being that Progress doesn’t already have a BPM product in their lineup, whereas IBM has two. Of the three [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged BPM, Business process management, CEP, Cloud, esb, ibm, Progress, Service-oriented architecture, software as a service
By Sandy Kemsley on December 16, 2009
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I was on the analyst call this morning to hear about IBM’s acquisition of Lombardi – a pretty significant acquisition in the BPM space. Lombardi is the best known of the mid-range BPMS vendors, and if the economic climate weren’t quite so dreary, I imagine that they’d be doing an IPO rather than [...]
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By Sandy Kemsley on November 19, 2009
I’ve reviewed a lot of BPM systems, and one of the most common weak points is in developing the part of the process application that isn’t generated from the process model: user interfaces, data models, security, business logic and integration with legacy systems. Some of this is improving, with the addition of graphical forms builders [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged BPM
