We have all talked about the Death of SOA, the imminent failure of Cloud Computing, and countless other IT failures on blogs dedicated to failure. Today I came across a blog from Dave Linthicum discussing failures on Business Intelligence projects. Dave was offering his point of view on another blogger’s story about Business Intelligence project failures. The author of the original blog pointed out some reasons for the... Read More
How to Select the Right Tools for your BPM Initiative
My quarterly article for the BPM Institute was published this evening. In this article, I highlight a vendor evaluation process that I have used in the past. Spend some time upfront and make sure that you select the products that best match both your business and technical requirements. Click on the following link to read the article: How to Select the Right Tools for your BPM Initiative Update: Here is the link to the RFP template I... Read More
Agile SOA: The Flexibility of Business Processes
As I have mentioned in many posts before, SOA built right can provide business agility and flexibility. Yesterday I discussed how to leverage data services and a few days back I discussed enterprise mashups. Today the focus is on business processes. Separating business processes from code is an ideal way to build an architecture that enables systems to adapt more readily to change. Let’s make believe that we are working for a large... Read More
My work at the BPMInstitute.org
I do a lot of research and writing for various organizations. I have written a number of articles on CIO.com’s SOA Drilldown section. Today, my first article was published on BPMInstitute.org. I have a quarterly commitment to write articles on BPM and SOA (SOAInstitute.org). This article was a case study on how CERN, an international scientific research company and pioneer of the world wide web, leveraged BPMS tools to improve... Read More
Managing Change in a Business Transformation Setting
I was invited to speak at a forum for IT executives in Detroit this week sponsored by Information Week. The purpose of the forum as described in the agenda goes like this… This executive breakfast, specifically designed for senior business-technology executives, will explore why the pressure is on IT to help the business transform, and how it can meet those expectations. More than ever before, companies are demanding their CIOs to be... Read More
