Why The Next App You Use Might Be In A Social Network
While social networks are still just getting their sea legs in most organizations, the next big leap forward — in addition to social analytics – is likely to be the integration of our productivity and line of business apps into our activity streams. Will this unleash significant new value? Very probably. But it’s also possibly the big integration [...]
Merging Social Streams Into Multimedia Conversations
I found myself intrigued by the launch of Echo E2 during Social Media Week in San Francisco earlier this month. The new Echo service is a StreamServer and App Store that allows a company to bring together social media activity…
HandySoft Process Intelligence and User Experience
Wow, has it really been a month since I last blogged? A couple of weeks vacation, general year-end busyness and a few non-work side projects have kept me quiet, but it’s time to get back at it. I have a few partially-finished product briefings sitting around, and thought it best to get them out before [...]
Apigee – Brief Notes
Sonoa renames its self to Apigee, simplifying it’s offerings along a freemium model.
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM In Depth
Back in May at TIBCO’s TUCON conference, I had a chance for a briefing on their new ActiveMatrix BPM, although not a full demo. Since then, however, I’ve had about three hours of demo sessions with Roger King to see more of what they’re doing with ActiveMatrix (which I will refer to as AMX) BPM [...]
Social Objects: The New Halo Around Web And Enterprise Data
For most of the history of the Web, it’s been about pages and links. This simple yet profoundly powerful structure has led to many of the most important capabilities of the Internet including search, analytics, network effects, and many other…
Metastorm M3 Demonstration
I had a briefing on Metastorm’s M3 collaborative modeling and Smart Business Workspace two weeks ago, and last week we had a follow-up demo. This is the start of a push towards a full BPM suite in the cloud, providing collaborative process modeling and the end user runtime hosted on Azure, but Microsoft still needs [...]
Metastorm New Releases: Collaborative Modeling with M3 and Smart Business Workspace Application Builder
Although we didn’t have a chance for a demo, I had a quick briefing with Greg Carter, Metastorm’s CTO, on the announcements that they made today. M3 Collaborative Modeling We discussed M3, their cloud-based collaborative process modeling tool. This is one of the first BPA/BPM offerings that I’ve seen on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, [...]
Webciety and Enterprise 2.0: A snapshot of today’s social computing conversations
Though smaller than in year’s past, Germany’s CeBIT trade show in Hanover this week remains one of the giants of the industry and is a must-attend event for much of Europe’s technology leaders. For the last two years, I have been participating in Webciety, a show within a show that explores the emerging 21st century digital lifestyle.
Here is a breakdown of how Europe is looking at Enterprise 2.0 adoption and how it affects us as well.
The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business
As organizations take a close hard look at cloud computing and how it can help them with their businesses, some are coming away unimpressed by the maturity or with concerns about risk, control, and privacy. Yet others are beginning to…
