Today I’m continuing my Q&A series on frequent questions asked about enterprise architecture and business process analysis tools. Over the past few months there has been a lot of chatter around the future of EA and BPA. Here’s another installment on the…
Have you seen the movie Real Steel? In the storyline of this flick, automation has replaced human fighters with 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robot boxers. The moral is “humans out, automation in” — end of story, right? Not exactly. As it turns out,…
One of the big topics of discussion regarding mobile is whether the mobile app market is moving towards native apps that are OS/device specific, or whether it is moving towards device neutral platforms such as HTML5. Today the mobile market is marked…
In my blog post last month I covered a few of the lessons learned by early BPM adopters on how to begin a business process management (BPM) initiative. Based on many early BPM successes, we have seen the focus of BPM projects…
Gartner predicts that by 2013, mobile devices will outpace the laptop as the most popular way to access the internet. As a mobile user, I want to access and interact with processes in my business just as easily as I access other…
At our annual User Summit (Nov 7 – 9) in Reston, VA, one of the most talked about presentations was the demonstration of OpenText’s new mobile and social BPM capabilities. Steve Russell, SVP and CTO of our business process solutions group, walked the…
I just viewed a new video from Microsoft about their future vision of our lives in 2019. Which is a great video offering a glimpse of things to come. Although, I was thinking that we probably won’t have to wait until 2019 to…
Business process management (BPM) initiatives are growing in popularity because thousands of organizations have proven the measurable value BPM can deliver at a lower cost and in a dramatically shorter time than with traditional solution development approaches. Early BPM adopters have achieved…
IT organizations are faced with a growing set of user expectations from the lines of businesses they support. The mismatch of expectations is being accelerated by the now ubiquitous access to Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, personalized portals like iGoogle, and iPhone or iPad. The…
In an increasingly more mobile society, work is not completed only in the office – it is often done on-the-go using a mobile device. Unsurprising to most, a study conducted by Morgan Stanley indicated that 91% of all U.S. citizens have their…
Let the countdown begin! There are only thirty-one more days until the OpenText BPM User Summit and we couldn’t be more thrilled. This year we are combining two powerhouse organizations – Global 360 and Metastorm – to give our customers the best…
The results of our How are Businesses using Microsoft® SharePoint® in the Enterprise? Fall 2011 Market Survey are out and there are several interesting trends regarding how businesses are leveraging SharePoint. This survey is conducted every six months to help businesses better…