Archive for August, 2006
Digg It
The early bird registration period for the Office 2.0 Conference ends tomorrow, September 1st, and we would like as many people as possible to benefit from it. So we need your help for a last marketing push before we start working with the traditional media and issue our first press release next week. [Continue…]
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On Track
52 confirmed speakers. 115 registered participants. 24 sponsors. It looks like we’re on track. And this is even before we issued a first press release. Blogs can be pretty effective marketing tools nowadays it seems. So, without further ado, here is an update on the Office 2.0 Conference. [Continue…]
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Venue
After quite a bit of work, the venue for the Office 2.0 Conference has finally been secured: St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco. Quite simply, this is the finest hotel the city has to offer today. We booked the entire ballroom, to be used for plenary sessions, as well as the adjacent gallery for hosting the demo pods of our sponsors. We also took an option on an additional room for breakout sessions, should attendance exceed original expectations. [Continue…]
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Final Dates
In order to secure the best possible venue for the Office 2.0 Conference, we have decided to move the event forward by one day. The new and final dates are October 11-12, 2006 (please update your blogs). We received the contracts for the venue and expect to get everything signed by tomorrow. The venue is absolutely stunning. While we were busy sorthing this out, several new speakers and sponsors decided to join the party. [Continue…]
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Escape Velocity
The most challenging part in starting any new venture is to reach what some call escape velocity. I would define it as the speed at which a projectile will reach its intended destination — usually referred to as ’success’ — without any additional kinetic energy input. Over the past couple of days, it looks like our proposed Office 2.0 Conference reached its required escape velocity, thanks to the help of a core group of contributors. [Continue…]
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Thank You
There are days when things seem to work out on their own. Call it timing, karma, or sheer luck, yesterday was one of these days. We launched the website for the Office 2.0 Conference, and all the work that had been done on this blog for the past nine months started to pay off. In a single day, we essentially doubled the number of speakers and panelists, and secured a couple of significant sponsorships, one highly impactful, the other very dear to my heart. So without further ado, I just wanted to say “thank you”. [Continue…]
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First Office 2.0 Challenge
Traditional office productivity suites get a major upgrade every three to four years. In contrast, Office 2.0 productivity suites such as Zoho see major improvements every two weeks. This is one of the reasons why I like Office 2.0 so much more. Another reasons — as indicated by Craig Cmehil — is the reactivity of Office 2.0 vendors compared to their 1.0 counterparts: ask a feature on your blog, and if you’re lucky, you might get it in the next bi-monthly release. I have been tracking such feature requests, but today, I want more, and there is nothing like than some healthy competition for getting it. [Continue…]
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Office 2.0 Conference Website
The Office 2.0 Conference now has its own website, thanks to the support of Ivaylo Lenkov at SiteKreator. Please use this registration page to benefit from our early bird special, and check our updated list of speakers. [Continue…]
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Questions and Answers
Following last week’s post regarding Intalio’s inverted sales process, industry analyst James McGovern came up with a set of thought provoking questions. I won’t copy his entire post — therefore I encourage you to read it first, but I’ll try to answer all his questions. [Continue…]
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BPM is SOA’s Killer Application
BPM is SOA’s killer application, and SOA is BPM’s enabling infrastructure. We’ve used this tagline before, but simple truths are worth repeating, for their deceiving simplicity might overshadow their relevance. [Continue…]
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SAP TechEd
Following SAPPHIRE back in May, I have been invited by the good folks at SAP (Mike Prosceno, Stacey Fish) to cover SAP Teched ‘06, which will take place in Las Vegas, on September 11-15. I have had an awesome time blogging with the other Enterprise Irregulars in Orlando, and it’s with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation. Here is what I expect to learn there. [Continue…]
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IBM Embraces BPM 2.0 Model
Following Oracle, IBM moved on a fast track to adopt the BPM 2.0 model with its proposed acquisition of FileNet. As co-author of the BPEL specification, and one of the first companies to support it within at least one of its products, IBM has a vested interest in BPEL. And while support for BPMN within FileNet’s product line is not entirely clear, FileNet’s Software Architect Mike Marin has always been a strong supporter for the specification, as can be seen with this tutorial released earlier this year. [Continue…]
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Back to the Future
Ryan Armasu is one of the most avid readers and commentators on this blog. Two days ago, he posted a comment to the BPM 2.0 is Middle-Out article that essentially said: “we need a standard model for BPM 2.0.” Without any warning, this comment took me six years back, when Howard Smith and I created the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org, now part of the OMG) in order to develop a standard model for BPM (1.0). Here is a transcript of Ryan’s post, followed by my personal thoughts on the subject. [Continue…]
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New Speakers
With the addition of Ross Mayfield, Jeff Nolan, Tom Snyder, and David Young, the list of speakers for the upcoming Office 2.0 Conference is becoming a who’s who of the ever growing Office 2.0 community. This gave me the opportunity of giving Zoho Creator another try, and getting a feel for the progress that has been made since its first public launch back in March. [Continue…]
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EchoSign
The best way to launch a new application is to find one well-identified pain point, and to solve it very well. This is true for applications that are deployed on premise, as much as it is for applications that are delivered as a service, and no company understood this better than EchoSign, a secure web-based tool for sending, signing, tracking and storing documents. I like the company so much that after meeting with co-founder and CEO Jason Lemkin, I immediately decided to join their Advisory Board. [Continue…]
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Who Cannot Write J2EE Code
Back in April, I explained what is wrong with J2EE. Today, I will try to identify who cannot write J2EE code with an interesting customer example, as part of our second BPM 2.0 weekly series. [Continue…]
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Imagine
Imagine a computer that never crashes, or gets infected by a virus. Imagine a computer which hard drive never fails. Imagine a computer that follows you wherever you go, be it at school, at work, abroad, or back home. Imagine a computer onto which you never have to install any application, nor perform any upgrade. Imagine a computer that your grand mother could finally use, without ever calling you for help. This computer does not exist today, but it might in the future, and this future might be closer than you think. [Continue…]
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New Sponsors
Thanks to the help of Julia and Nial, we have secured some additional sponsors for the Office 2.0 Conference — Apple Computer, Lewis PR, Lohika — and several more are in the pipe. [Continue…]
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First D3 Project
Back in February, Intalio unveiled its Demand Driven Development (D3) program, as a way to essentially outsource major parts of our product management process. Since then, we have scoped over 60 projects, but we found it quite difficult to actually secure sponsors for them, irrespectively of the financial incentives we could offer. Today, I am pleased to announce that we signed our first customer for it. Here is what we learned along the way. [Continue…]
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Oracle Embraces BPM 2.0 Model
Yesterday, Oracle announced a partnership with IDS Scheer, adding the ARIS platform to Oracle’s BPM offering. From an industry standards prospective, this deals means that Oracle now supports both BPMN and BPEL, which are the cornerstones for the BPM 2.0 model. [Continue…]
