Archive for July, 2006
Who Needs Eclipse
Back in March, I explained why using Eclipse was critical for a standards-based BPMS. Today, I will try to illustrate this with a couple of customer examples, as part of our second BPM 2.0 weekly series. [Continue…]
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Improved Office 2.0 Database
The Office 2.0 Database has been bookmarked by 1,835 people on del.icio.us, so I figured that it must be quite useful. Several users suggested that I make some improvements to the old database in order to make it more readable, such as repeating the header for example. I found some time to work on it this week-end, and I am quite happy with the results. [Continue…]
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BPMEnterprise.com
The BPM 2.0 section of IT|Redux is now being syndicated by BPMEnterprise.com, a BPM portal developed by CTQ Media. This brings to four the number of BPM portals currently syndicating some of our content. [Continue…]
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First Speakers and Sponsors
The upcoming Office 2.0 Conference is off to a great start. Thanks to the help of Jeff Clavier at SoftTech VC and Raju Vegesna at AdventNet, we just signed our first speakers and sponsors. [Continue…]
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BPM vs. BPM
Our recent discussions on process modeling and process execution encouraged me to dig into my archives in order to retrieve some ealier definitions of BPM. I turned to the fantastic Wayback Machine developed by the Internet Archive project, and retrieved an article dated September 2002 that was one of the first attempts at clarifying what BPM really means. If you thought the ‘M’ in BPM referred to the concept of Modeling, think again. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Conference Dates and Location
The dates and location have been set for the first Office 2.0 Conference: it will take place on October 12-13, 2006 in San Francisco, CA, immediately following Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce user & developer conference. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Feature Tracker
The Diigo social annotation and bookmarking tool was formally launched today. I won’t go into the details of this release, for my friend Brian Benzinger has done a much better job than I ever could, with one of his usual thorough reviews. What I would like to focus on instead is how service providers such as Diigo manage to quickly release features requested by users. [Continue…]
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Who Needs a Complete BPMS
Recent discussions on BPMN and BPEL have created a level of activity rarely seen on these pages. The quality of interactions is outstanding, and I strongly encourage you to read through the comments of this post, and this older one contributed by Francis Ip. In the meantime, let me use the opportunity of our weekly BPM 2.0 post to shed some light on why BPMN and BPEL nicely complement each other, and who really needs a complete BPMS. Disclaimer: this post might upset some readers, especially towards the end, but I need to get some messages across, loud and clear. Consider yourself warned! [Continue…]
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More on BPMN
Assaf Arkin’s recent article on BPMN generated some of the most interesting discussions I have seen on this blog in a long time, so I asked him to write a follow-up to his controversial piece. He came up with a superb article only he could write. Enjoy! [Continue…]
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8,000 Contacts in Your Pocket
Back in April, I complained about the pains of data synchronization, and my friend Assaf was quick to point to the fact that syndication was a far superior solution. Last week, Spanning Partners released a data syndication service that allows events stored in Salesforce.com to be syndicated to Apple iCal and stored into your iPod. Today, I deployed this solution and used simple export/import techniques to get about 8,000 contacts on my iPod. It worked. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 on Google
As of today, typing "Office 2.0" on Google, with or without double quotation marks, returns IT|Redux as very first result, ahead of OpenOffice.org, which had held the first place until now because of its 2.0 release. [Continue…]
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On BPMN
Over the past couple of years, the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) has established itself as the de-facto standard for process modeling. Nevertheless, an impedance mismatch exists between BPMN and BPEL, one of its target execution languages. What follows is the view of Assaf Arkin, Intalio CTO and co-author of the BPML and BPEL specifications, on this critical subject. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Under the Radar
In anticipation to the Office 2.0 Conference that will take place in San Francisco in October, IT|Redux is sponsoring an Under the Radar event on Office 2.0 hosted by SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA on August 15. [Continue…]
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Improved LinkedIn User Interface
The LinkedIn social networking service recently improved its user interface, following a major overhaul released in March and described in this past article. Among other things, the new user interface adds a hierarchical Inbox, and improves the way profile updates are presented. [Continue…]
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AppExchange 2.0
The launch of Salesforce.com’s AppExchange back in January might have been one of the most successful for any new development platform. More than 200 partners have been signed up in about six months, and 300 applications have been released. By any measure, this is impressive. But what these numbers are not telling is where the platform is going, and what AppExchange 2.0 might look like down the road. I met with Salesforce.com’s Chairman & CEO Marc Benioff today, and gave him my take on the subject, following a discussion hosted last week by the Enterprise Irregulars. [Continue…]
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Better Hosting Wanted
This blog has been running off a Yahoo! Small Business account since January 3rd, when I migrated from TypePad to WordPress, following the advice of my friend, investor, and fellow blogger Jeff Clavier. Nevertheless, hosting on Yahoo! has been brittle at best, and time has come for a change. [Continue…]
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I Need Feedback
As of today, IT|Redux has 415 subscribers, and a daily average of 355 visits and 880 pageviews, 44% of them by returning visitors. This makes for a regular readership of about 800 people. I estimate that about 100 people posted at least one of the 900+ comments that have been published on the blog, which means that I do not know who the 700 others are. I would love to hear from them, for it would help me better address your needs and expectations. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Infrastructure Services
Amazon recently released Amazon SQS, a simple message queing service. It complements the equally simple, yet extremely effective Amazon S3 online storage service featured in this past article. This gives me the opportunity to start a list of infrastructure services that could be used to build Office 2.0 applications, following a suggestion made by my good friend Charlie Wood on the Enterprise Irregulars mailing list. [Continue…]
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What went Wrong with J2EE
Three months ago, I explained what I thought was wrong with J2EE. More recently, a lot of controversy was stirred when J2EE developer extraordinaire Richard Monson-Haefel, now a senior analyst with the Burton Group, predicted the death of the J2EE architecture in a SOA-dominated world. [Continue..]
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Services kill Software
Nicholas Carr recently published a thought-provoking article that describes how software kills hardware. As much as I agree with Nick’s points, I believe that the virtualization trend he describes goes a step further, and while software replaces hardware, services replace software in the end. [Continue…]
