May 29, 2009
Around the first quarter of 2008 I got interested in comet-enabled applications because of the richness and immediacy they deliver to the increasingly real-time web. The list of use-cases I could envision leveraging comet for in the world of ECM / BPM were endless – that just made the research all the more worthwhile.
Back in [...]
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April 20, 2009
The day the IBM-Sun talks disintegrated after weeks of deliberation, I knew something was up in Oracle land.
The same day over dinner, I told my fiancee, Kelly, that Larry Ellison probably called Charles Phillips from his yacht off the coast of Japan and told him to buy Sun. To me, it just made total sense.
Why [...]
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January 30, 2009
It’s been an interesting time in the technology industry to see four sectors follow very similar maturation patterns.
The Four Are:
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
- Business Intelligence (BI)
- Business Rules Management (BRM)
All four industries have undergone rapid consolidation in the last 5 years. Cognos being acquired by IBM, iLog being blue washed as well, [...]
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August 5, 2008
A lot of deserved attention goes to Lombardi’s Blueprint tool for innovating with GWT and bringing collaborative process modeling and sharing to the web. What I didn’t like about it was the BPDM export… that sucked. It basically meant Lombardi was the only run-time game in town. The other part that isn’t clear about Blueprint [...]
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July 28, 2008
So, IBM makes an obvious & much needed play in the Rules Engine market to acquire ILOG for a cool $340M. Assuming a “satisfactory fairness opinion” is attained, this is going to be a go around mid-September.
Pretty smart play by IBM and it shows a strong long-term commitment to their ECM/BPM strategy over the next [...]
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