The Evolution of Privacy Regulations – an @AIIM1Canadian seminar
AIIM Toronto runs some great morning seminars every month or so, and recently the guest was Else Khoury of Seshat Information Consulting to talk about privacy regulations. In the face of recent privacy gaffes from the Facebook fiasco (the breach that wasn’t a breach) to Alphabet Labs not thinking about where public data that they […]
Of Cobblestones, Solomon, Paula, Gunter, Joseph and the GDPR.
I’ve been reading a fair bit of software vendor marketing and press from around the world about the GDPR. It seems to me that a lot of it misses the point. GDPR is seen as a compliance burden, an unwelcome dose of EU bureaucracy or at best a useful opportunity sell security software. It is […]
Customers, colleagues, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and my writing day.
I have been spending the last few months deep in accessibility law, testing, standards, universal design, GDPR, the early history of business computing and of course my old friend, Sarbanes Oxley. I am an expert on Heidelberg and Sandton coffee shops, and I have spent far too long debating the value of one font over […]
TIBCO Nimbus for regulatory compliance at Bank of Montreal
It’s the first afternoon of breakout sessions at TIBCO NOW 2016, and Alex Kurm from Bank of Montreal is presenting how the bank has used Nimbus for process documentation, to serve the goals of regulatory compliance and process transformation. They are one of the largest Nimbus users, and Kurm leads a team of process experts […]
Conferences, comedy, clouds and contracts.
Continuing my attempts to bring Shakespeare into as many posts as I can…. Let specialties be therefore drawn between us, That covenants may be kept on either hand. (Taming of the Shrew II. i. 127-8) A couple of weeks ago, I presented at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago, the topic being SaaS Contracts: how not to […]
News Analysis: Deltek Offers To Buy Maconomy For $72.7M
Acquisition Consolidates Two Market Leaders In The Project Based Solutions Market
Deltek announced on June 3rd that they would acquire Maconomy for $72.7M ($3.39/share (DKK 20.50)). Maconomy is a leading project based solutions (PBS) software company (~35.6M 2009 revenues) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Deltek is a 265.8M (2009 revenues) PBS software vendor based in Herndon, VA. […]
Archiving, Compliance, Goldman Sachs: Lets Discuss Live
I am currently working on a project for my client Lumigent– which provides software to manage compliance across multiple business applications, so customers don’t need to roll their own. Anyway – the project kicked off some thinking about compliance, and namely, how people are always the weakest link – not in terms of spotting compliance, […]
Okay Here Goes CRM Forecast 2010 PART II
I’d go over to ZDNet for Part I of this forecast (released at the exact same time as this one) if you want to read the intro, the Latin American 2010 Forecast from Jesus Hoyos and the first five…
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Is the Future of SOA Open Source?
It’s a truism that you don’t have to buy software to deliver on SOA, which is primarily a style of technical architecture and business strategy and isn’t really something you can go out and purchase. But it’s also true that…
