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Inferences for ‘07
Last year’s inferences lead to an unexpectedly high 83% success rate. This will be hard to beat, especially because my new batch of nine inferences will be stated in more measurable ways, leaving little room for history rewriting. Let’s give it a shot anyway, and meet again on December 31st, 2007 for our yearly performance review. In the meantime, happy new year to all! [Continue…]
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Scorecard
364 days ago, I published my inferences for ‘06. A year has passed, and time has come to take a look back and see how good (or bad) I did back then. Tomorrow, I will publish a new batch, and review them a year from now. [Continue…]
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Acquisitions Create Opportunities
Yesterday, Red Hat acquired JBoss for $420 Million. A week before, TA Associates announced a $200 Million buyout of Global 360. Both acquisitions are interesting in the sense that they create wonderful opportunities for others to develop their businesses in creative ways. [Continue…]
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First Office 2.0 Acquisition
Today, Google announced the acquisition of Upstartle, the company that developed Writely, an Office 2.0 alternative to Microsoft Word. This marks the first significant Office 2.0 acquisition by one of the major Web 2.0 players, and I would expect many more to follow this year, mainly from Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. It also means that […]
The World is Flat
I just finished reading The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree. In his last book, Friedman identifies ten events and trends that are flattening the world we live in today. I agreed with most of the thesis, and tried to relate to it my own experience working at Intalio.
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BPM Inferences for ‘06
This is my first monthly BPM column for Business Process Trends. In order to set the stage for a new year of BPM, here is a set of inferences for ‘06 based on my personal experiences, insights and desires. Some are fairly straightforward, others highly speculative, but most should matter to all BPM practitioners. Interestingly enough, the first inference—BPM will go mainstream—got a step closer to being fulfilled this morning: IBM just announced the release of the new System i5, also known as iSeries, also known as AS/400. As part of this announcement they are featuring a front & center quote from yours truly. Intalio|BPMS becomes the first BPM solution to be available for System i5, and if that does not make BPM mainstream, I do not know what will.
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For a New Software Distribution Model
As Martin LaMonica from CNET wrote recently, enterprise software companies are starting to feel the pinch when selling to corporate IT buyers. Commoditization through Open Source on one end, consolidation of the industry around a handful of behemoth players on the other, make it increasingly difficult for enterprise software vendors to compete in an effective manner. This article makes a case for a new software distribution model that will change the rules of the game.
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Mercury acquires Systinet
Mercury today announced the acquisition of Systinet. Similarly to HP’s acquisition of Talking Blocks two years ago, this move outlines the convergence of SOA and IT services management. What I find interesting in this acquisition is that it follows Mercury’s earlier acquisition of Kintana, a BPM company specialized in the management of ITIL processes. When […]
Inferences for ‘06
Happy New Year to all!
Everybody does it, so here are my inferences for ‘06:
BPMS will go mainstream
With BPEL gaining support for distributed transactions and human workflow while BPMN is receiving the blessing of the OMG, industry standards are making the BPMS ready for mainstream adoption. Just in time for Gartner to release the first BPMS magic quadrant […]
IBM acquires Bowstreet
IBM today announced the acquisition of Bowstreet. The portal-based tool company had been working with IBM for about three years and derived most of its revenue from this relationship, making the acquisition a very natural one.
Bowstreet’s product is interesting because it’s a perfect illustration of how challenging it can be to deal with complex systems. At […]
Is iSeries cool?
Like most people who never wrote a single line of RPG, I used to think that the IBM eServer iSeries platform (formerly known as AS/400) was legacy, proprietary, irrelevant. After spending two days with the iSeries folks in snowy Rochester, MN, I realize that my perception was simply wrong, period.
Today, iSeries should not be considered as […]
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 […]
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 […]
