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For IBM, Process Innovation is social and mobile
I’ve been a little slow in blogging about what I learned at IBM IMPACT (#ibmimpact) this year… apologies if you’ve been waiting for pearls of wisdom from me! ;-) I blame a big client workload. Damn those clients. So it’s a...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 15th May '12

How to build a collaborative culture in 5 easy steps*
Last week I took part in #SWCHAT – a weekly tweetchat session focused on the social workplace, and run by David Christopher of Stop! Think Social. The topic of the session was “Building a collaborative culture”, the subject of my...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 11th May '12

IBM and Teradata acquisitions have mobile digital marketing flavour
Two acquisitions recently – Teradata buying eCircle and IBM snapping up Tealeaf – mark out digital marketing analytics as a focus and investment area for the data warehousing and analytic heavyweights. Although both acquisitions have...
Helena Schwenk, MWD Advisors | 4th May '12

Vivisimo brings federated discovery and analysis to IBM's burgeoning Big Data stack
If you haven’t already heard on Twitter or the blogosphere, IBM yesterday announced its intention to acquire Vivisimo – a data discovery and navigation vendor primarily for unstructured data – for an undisclosed sum. The company...
Helena Schwenk, MWD Advisors | 26th April '12

The Community Manager conundrum
Yesterday I took part in an “IBM Social Business Briefing“, a roundtable event in London run by IBM partner Collaboration Matters (who also ran the Collaboration Diner session at UCExpo I blogged about a few weeks back). The event, which...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 26th April '12

Progress Software does a 180… and goes back to the future?
If you take a look at Progress Software’s home page on the web today, you’ll see the following four things highlighted (along with a blog post from CTO John Bates): the launch of Responsive Process Management (RPM) 2.2 the results of a...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 25th April '12

Live blog from PEX Week Europe 2012
This morning sees the start of PEX Week Europe 2012, a event for process excellence professionals held at the London Film Museum in the UK. The week’s event starts with a pre-summit workshop day focused on Business Process Management –...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 23rd April '12

The world's best way to organise work: a review of Appian World 2012
Appian – one of the leading independent BPM technology specialist providers – used its annual customer conference earlier this week to significant effect: highlighting recent growth, giving customers and prospects opportunities to learn...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 20th April '12

ATOS acquires Paris-based online communities vendor blueKiwi
blueKiwi, the small French provider of SaaS-based online community solutions, has been acquired by ATOS for a reported 20 million Euros (ex-blueKiwi CEO Carlos Diaz confirmed the acquisition via Twitter). Having tracked bluekiwi for several years...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 11th April '12

BPM: "complicated" is not the same as "dead"
Over the past few weeks I’ve come across a few conversations, both online and offline, that celebrate, or commiserate, BPM’s “death”. Certainly, it’s possible to find evidence that suggests that there’s less...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 30th March '12