BPM for Agile Development

Intalio just completed the first training for Intalio|BPMS 4.0. During lunch with the trainees at Mistral, one of the best restaurants in Redwood City, guests exchanged ideas on how to use the BPM approach and BPM tools to implement the agile approaches articulated in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Interestingly, most of the principles […]

Standardization

When artfully written and properly marketed, technology standards are both very boring pieces of literature and extremely effective ways of transforming an industry. There would be no Internet without IP, FTP and SMTP. There would be no database industry without SQL. And there will be no relief of pain within corporate IT groups without proper […]

Social Networking

IP networks create connectivity. Social networks create connexity. Metcalfe’s law outlined the exponential value of networks, but when disjointed groups of people get connected through social networking sites such as LinkedIn, unforeseen possibilities emerge and the value becomes transcendental, in a mathematical way at least.
With this category, we will explore innovative ways of leveraging business-oriented social […]

Service Oriented Architecture

Distributed Computing Environment, Common Object Request Broker Architecture, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, the list will go on forever. Underlying technologies might change, but the overarching concept remains the same: harness the power of the network to get exponential value out of multiple systems owned and managed by multiple parties.
This category will follow the evolution of […]

Software as a Service

When packaged software does not sell anymore for having bought too much of it, vendors must find alternative ways of addressing the needs of customers suffering from indigestion. Software as a Service and network appliances are such alternative distribution mechanisms and have proven quite successful for CRM and web hosting respectively.
Whithin this category, we will try […]

Open Source

In the early days of computing, software was free and shipped in its source form as an add-on to the computer. Then came the 1969 IBM monopoly lawsuit that was later settled out of court and forced IBM to unbundle software from hardware. This led to the birth of an independent software industry that quickly […]

Offshoring

When real estate in the Bay Area makes it impossible to attract or retain talent, software companies look elsewhere for it. First came India, then China, then Eastern Europe. But is it working? What is it good for? And how much does it really cost—or should I say, save—and is cost saving the issue anyway?
With this […]

Office 2.0

In its original incarnation circa 1996, the concept for a Network Computer (NC) did not really make sense. It offered a fraction of the functionality provided by a regular Personal Computer (PC), at a similar purchase price. But most importantly, nobody really cared. The web was just starting and the promoters for this new platform […]

Consolidation

PeopleSoft acquired J.D. Edwards. Then Oracle acquired PeopleSoft. Then Oracle again acquired Siebel, and the market for packaged enterprise applications turned into a simple blue vs. red decision. Beyond Oracle or SAP, not much is left.
The enterprise software industry is reaching maturity stage, and with it comes consolidation. Consolidation not just on the vendor side, but […]

Business Process Management

Things have gotten pretty complex with IT recently. The Internet brought us nearly-ubiquitous connectivity, yet it seems to have made everything much more convoluted along the way. Multi-tier architectures, intermittently connected mobile devices, XML and Web Services standards by the dozens are all bringing their fair share of complexity. Put together, they draw an almost […]

Welcome to IT|Redux

IT|Redux—New Rules for a New IT World, is a weblog dedicated to the IT industry and the radical trends that are transforming it today. IT|Redux is the brainchild and playground of Ismael Ghalimi, a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder of Intalio and BPMI.org.
IT|Redux identifies three major trends that are in play today and are […]