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For Bonitasoft, simplicity sells - and also attracts funding

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:52:07 +0100

French-founded open-source BPM technology vendor Bonitasoft today announced it has secured a third round of VC funding of $13m - taking total funding so far to... [Read More...]

Moving IBM's $100bn needle with Smarter Process

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:58:11 +0100

As Sandy, Bruce and David have already highlighted, one of the very biggest themes at this year's IMPACT conference for IBM middleware customers was 'Smarter Process'. BPM in some... [Read More...]

The problem with Case Management

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:07:31 +0100

I've long been niggled by a nagging doubt about the term 'Case Management' and how it gets introduced and explained. A lot of people I talk to outside of the legal sphere find it... [Read More...]

Touch me, I'm a process

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:31:22 +0100

I'm a little late getting around to blogging about this, but I think it's worth sharing nonetheless. Did you see the launch, in October last year, of Metasonic Touch?�This is the result... [Read More...]

bpmNEXT - mojo in Monterey

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:38:48 +0100

Most conferences I go to are not conferences in the classic sense; they're really industry sales and marketing events with little conference-y bits around the edges. This is not to knock the... [Read More...]

The "fluffiness" of collaboration, the challenges of measuring ROI, and your own ...

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:57:37 +0100

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Gamifying processes: seductive, but proceed with caution

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:37:56 +0100

Gamification is a word I've only recently been able to bring myself to say, because it's so ugly. I finally relented after I saw a fantastic presentation at a recent J.Boye conference,... [Read More...]

Kofax grabs another flotation device with Altasoft buy

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:56:17 +0100

Kofax has continued its journey beyond document capture tech - buying US-based operational BI vendor Altosoft last week for $13.5m. Building on its acquisition of UK-based BPM technology... [Read More...]

Process, have you met Process?

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:59:56 +0100

In regular hallway conversations at conferences and my daily meanderings through online forums and groups, I still come across a really astounding amount of variation when it comes to people's... [Read More...]

A BPM technology futures retreat? Sign me up!

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:36:53 +0100

A few months back I bumped into Bruce Silver at a vendor conference (as I do, from time to time) - and he slipped me a flyer for an event he was just starting to put together with another... [Read More...]

Appian continues to defy conventional wisdom

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:13:08 +0100

In markets for software technologies, conventional wisdom dictates that over time, as the need for the technology becomes widely understood and the market matures, supply consolidates and room for... [Read More...]

Top 10 blogs for Process in 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:40:09 +0100

As we hurtle towards another year end, and in anticipation of sharing our outlook perspectives for 2013, we present the ten most popular blog posts from our Process research program published over... [Read More...]

Top 10 blogs for Collaboration in 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:25:35 +0100

As we hurtle towards another year end, and in anticipation of sharing our outlook perspectives for 2013, we present the ten most popular blog posts from our Collaboration research program published... [Read More...]

Top 10 blogs for Analytics in 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:09:15 +0100

As we hurtle towards another year end, and in anticipation of sharing our outlook perspectives for 2013, we present the ten most popular blog posts from our Analytics research program published over... [Read More...]

Is BPM part of EA, or EA part of BPM?

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:35:24 +0100

A few days ago, I weighed into a discussion in the BPM Group LinkedIn group. Someone had asked the question what's your opinion? is BPM part of EA [Enterprise Architecture] or EA part of... [Read More...]

When worlds collide... should process professionals fear extinction?

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:00:29 +0100

One week, one community, one vision for excellence. That's the tagline for PEX Week 2013, when over 400 process excellence professionals will descend on Orlando next January to... [Read More...]

Customer Experience, Business Innovation, BPM - joining the dots with Oracle

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:23:56 +0100

In my first blog about Oracle OpenWorld last week, I focused on the disconnect between the way Oracle portrayed itself in so many of the big keynote sessions for the main audience (focused on... [Read More...]

Trash-talk vs strategy at Oracle OpenWorld

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:43:38 +0100

It's been a very long while since I've been to a big Oracle customer conference, so I wasn't really sure what to expect - beyond the 'town within a city' vibe that... [Read More...]

Joining the dots with TIBCO at TUCON 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:46:51 +0100

Last week I spent a few more days in Vegas, taking in TIBCO's annual TUCON customer event. The theme for this year's event was Everything Is Different. Some things certainly... [Read More...]

The Apple Maps hullabaloo, megatrends and your business-tech strategy

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:16:12 +0100

The ongoing outpouring of derision, frustration and fun-poking at Apple's new Maps app - touted as a key feature of the quite-possibly-described-as-magical iOS 6... [Read More...]

Savvion dusts itself down

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:51:15 +0100

The announcement of Savvion's divestiture was one of the biggest surprises within Progress Software's strategic about-turn. The BPM vendor's founder is busy building momentum so... [Read More...]

Lombardi's dynamo takes on a bigger challenge at IBM

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:52:36 +0100

One of the most engaging and passionate executives I've come across in the BPM technology space is Phil Gilbert. Phil was President and CTO at Lombardi Software, and since Lombardi was acquired... [Read More...]

Kofax rides Singularity's train to Azure with BPM

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:15:36 +0100

This week I got a quick update on Kofax's TotalAgility product and business (acquired when it bought UK-based BPM technology supplier Singularity in December 2011). A few days previously the... [Read More...]

Process agility, meet business agility

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:43:39 +0100

'Agility' is one of those business-technology words that means so many things to so many different people (like� well� hundreds of other words too; 'architecture'... [Read More...]

Fascinating insights on process mapping and modelling

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:05:55 +0100

Just yesterday we launched a new online survey that we're using to gauge current industry maturity in process mapping and modelling, to complement some comparative research that Mark is doing... [Read More...]

Innovation and process at BPM Europe 2012

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:23:39 +0100

I've been attending IRM's BPM Europe events for a few years now, and I've always been impressed by both the speakers and the (refreshingly international and diverse) audiences.... [Read More...]

TIBCO needs more 'show', less 'tell'

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:58:32 +0100

TIBCO's latest customer event drew a sizeable audience and gave good glitz - but the detail was disjointed. This reflects both the challenges and the opportunities that TIBCO faces as it... [Read More...]

Innovation and wealth

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:47:59 +0100

It seems that everywhere you look, people are talking about the need for innovation. A key question would be why so much talk of the need for innovation now? Innovation has always played a key part... [Read More...]

Combine tools with workshops to drive process discovery

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:33:00 +0100

Unfortunately I can't attend the Process Mining Camp in Eindhoven next Tuesday, but if I did go, here's one thing I'd love to explore with the participants: how do they advocate... [Read More...]

Not your father's process platform

rss@it-analysis.com (Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors) — Mon, 28 May 2012 20:38:54 +0100

In London on June 14 I'm on the programme at IQPC's BPM Futures event, and my talk is titled Not your father's process platform. I'll be looking at how... [Read More...]