Inside the Briefcase1958 was an interesting year for the entire world. Nikita Krushchev became the Premier of the Soviet Union. Robert Fischer, considered one of the greatest chess players who ever lived, won the United States Chess Championship at the ripe age of 14. The men who would become known as The Beatles had their first recording session, known then by a different name. Read More…
Written by: Gabriel Monroy, co-founder and CTO of OpDemandBy many accounts 2012 is the year Platform-as-a-Service goes mainstream. PaaS offerings from Heroku and Cloud Foundry are awash in positive press. Stories of progressive developers adopting and succeeding with PaaS are increasingly common. Even IaaS poster-child Netflix is now promoting a PaaS strategy. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP LogixGartner has coined the term “personal cloud” to refer to the collection of devices we carry with us, and the data and applications that surround them. When I first heard this expression I immediately thought of Pigpen, the Peanuts character perpetually shrouded in a swirl of dust—which is appropriate, because that’s exactly how your IT department thinks of you when you show up at the office with your iPad, Android phone, and Kindle Fire. Read More…
By: Yves de Montcheuil, VP of marketing at TalendOne can wonder, why all this noise around big data? After all, we (as human beings, and as organizations we belong to) have been collecting massive amounts of data since the origin of times. Of course, the advent of the printing press, then computers, have made it easier to collect and store data and have redefined the term “massive”.
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix I was an unsociable boy, a computer nerd living well before such folks were celebrated in popular culture. My ability to type at 90 WPM, or to safely navigate a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, were not widely admired by my pre-teen peers. So perhaps that experience has colored my feelings about the role of “social” in BPM.
By Troy Fulton, Director, Product Marketing, Tangoe, Inc. March Madness is here and even if you are not a fan, your employees likely are. As proof, a study from Modis revealed that 42 percent of IT professionals said their networks are typically impacted by the basketball tournament and 37 percent of IT professionals said their networks are slowed down by the live video streaming of the games. Read More…
By: Keith Holdt, Director of Swiss Post Solutions Ltd The phrase ‘from the mailroom upwards’ was often used in the past to indicate the lowly role of the traditional mailroom as little more than a physical ‘logistics hub’. But as many organizations have discovered, elevating the mailroom to an automated, digital ‘information hub’ offers huge potential benefits, not just in boosting efficiency and productivity but to the bottom line too.
By Andrew SpanyiChief financial officers (CFOs) are particularly well suited to lead a major transformational effort. Yet few do so successfully even though most have a vested role in strategic planning and also determine what the organization measures and monitors. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix It was three days before Christmas and in Santa’s workshop, all was not well. The chief supply-chain elf had discovered a problem: a critical shortage of blue Legos. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP LogixScience fiction? Well, sure, maybe the ultra-friendly, context-aware, linguistically advanced interface of my Computerized HELp and SchEduling Assistant is still in the realm of Star Trek. But a guy can dream, can’t he? Read More..
By Jim Walker, Director, Product Marketing at TalendOver the last year, we have seen data management climb up the list of CTOs’ and senior decision makers’ priorities in a bid to enhance quality and accuracy. In particular, Master Data Management (MDM) has become recognized as a key way for businesses to cut costs by helping firms streamline processes, in effect, reducing data duplication and redundant information. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix As the Great Southern California Blackout of 2011 rolled through our offices, I was sitting with a colleague, marking up a Word document. Of course, as both of us are skilled technical experts, we were well aware of the need to save our work periodically against just such an event. And, of course, we had not done so. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix In my last post, I discussed how BPM not only provides the well-known benefits of automation, but can also directly improve your business processes through its connection to, and manipulation of, various types of data. Today I’ll cover the third and final of my three categories; namely, BPM-generated data. Read More >>
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix The original, and often still primary, goal of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions is automation. Having already automated everything from assembly lines to telephone operators, we wanted to extend the benefits of automation to our key business processes. Automate your processes, the logic goes, and you can reduce errors, keep important information from falling through the cracks, and even save trees. Read More >>
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix In the movie “Up in the Air”, George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a corporate hatchet man who spends the majority of his waking hours on airplanes. He loves the traveling life, but, early in the film, Bingham’s boss decides to try a more modern approach, anchoring the habitual traveler to his desk and forcing him to use telepresence in place of face-to-face meetings. CIOs face a similar dilemma. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix In a recent survey, 40% of 110 CIOs responded affirmatively to the question Do you have a BPM project or initiative inside your organization. However, nearly twice that number responded affirmatively to a similar question, Are you attempting to automate some of your manual, paper based processes. Read More..
Written by: Panigrahi, Subhrajyoti (Subbu), Deloitte Consulting LLP Leverage Master Data Management(MDM) for operational effectiveness of sale organization There are two common objectives behind majority of organizations adopting CRM through cloud computing: (1) putting the sales organization on a fast track by boosting up-sell, sub-sell, cross-sell; (2) reducing total cost of ownership (TC0) by controlling cost from data storage, software license, hardware, labor, IT support and maintenance. Read More
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix Last time I touched on the initial savings realized in the deployment of a configurable (no-code) BPM solution, versus one that requires coding. In today’s post I want to touch on the longer term benefit of using a configurable solution. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix Off the shelf BPM solutions that require programmers for their configuration and maintenance can ultimately threaten the cost containment goal for which they were acquired in the first place. Today I’ll briefly review the initial expense of such a deployment, and next time I’ll cover the more significant ongoing costs. Read More…
Written by: Thomas Knight, VP of N. America, AuthenWare In healthcare today, there is an ever increasing concern with protecting patient privacy as nurses, technicians, doctors, billing clerks, payers, providers and many others have practically unlimited access to their private information. The biggest disappointment that I have with HIPAA is that it offers healthcare organizations a rare opportunity to update their technology platform with best practices, proper procedures and policy enforcement, but very few have actually done so. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix One of the most compelling-and, to some, surprising-features of BPM is its adaptability to a wide variety of business needs. BPM solutions are used in HR, in finance, and in IT. They automate help desks, speed payments to suppliers, and accelerate new product releases. It is this flexibility that distinguishes BPM from the slew of purpose-built enterprise software products that have come and gone since the dawn of computing. Read More…
Written by: E. Scott Menter, VP of Business Solutions for BP Logix Traditionally, a fine line has divided process from project in the enterprise. The Project (or Portfolio) Management Office (PMO) is responsible for oversight of projects—however that is defined within that organization—while process governance is often distributed throughout the organization, perhaps with some input from a process improvement team. Read More…
