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 [...]
A Social Baptism for the Enterprise. Hallelujah and Amen.
About this time last month, I was undergoing a crisis of faith. Faith in what brought me to this space: the promise of what the next generation web could be and could do to change business as we know it, as well as society at large. My faith was shaken by a few ripples [...]
Commentary on Pacific Crest’s SaaS Surveys and other Relevant Thoughts
A few days ago I participated in Pacific Crest’s workshop for private SaaS companies. This workshop is being held every year as part of Pacific Crest’s technology conference. In addition to the spirited discussion among SaaS company executives and investors, during the workshop Pacific Crest’s Brendan Barnicle and David Spitz presented the results of two [...]
Enterprise 2.0: Seeing from the Back Forward
Okay, before I begin, a confession. I just spent 3 days at the Enterprise 2.0 2011 confab in Boston – and didn’t attend a single event that I didn’t do. But I have several excuses and I think that I’m still qualified to write what I’m about write. First, I participated in 4 events, the [...]
Friday Rant: The Changing Events Landscape — Get Ready for an Evolution of the Conference Model
More than a few people on the vendor and advisory side of the house have approached me recently, questioning their participation and sponsorship of procurement, finance and shared-services conferences. A number have already begun …
Greetings, Hewlett-Packard, nice to meet you!
Last week, I attended Hewlett-Packard’s user conference, called HP Discover 2011, in Las Vegas; it was an enormous event with 10,000 on-site attendees and 800 conference sessions. At the conference, I explored themes related to business transformation, cloud, and IT success. This post highlights specific products, services, people, and issues that caught my attention. In [...]
Cloud and the reshaping of business
Even though much of the discussion of cloud computing is focused on technology, I believe that the most important innovations on cloud platforms are going to happen at a business level. So here at the SIIA All About the Cloud conference today in San Francisco, one of the sessions I’d been especially looking forward to [...]
The Googlebot Wants Everything – #io2011 Trip Report
At the recent Google I/O 2011, the search giant unleashed itself into almost every nook and cranny of IT, consumer and “enterprise.” This positions them against pretty much every vendor out there, and with their billions in money from advertising, they’re like a wealthy but aloof giant that seems to have unlimited resources, just waiting [...]
Growing Dell – #SSVE Trip Report
Dell held an analyst event in Austin a couple weeks ago (titled “Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era”, or SSVE), coming out strong with its message of transformation and growth via an expansion in the general “enterprise IT” space. This was primarily based on two, traditionally non-Dell lines of business. The Growth Plan Our [...]
