Derek Weeks

9 years, 11 months ago

OMG’s European Business Architecture Innovation Summit (Berlin)

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We were honored to attend OMG’s European Business Architecture Innovation Summit this week in Berlin, Germany (June 18 – 19).  We had a great opportunity to catch up with many of our OpenText customers there including JP Morgan, United Airlines, and Network Rail.  If you are interested in finding out more about what’s going on […]

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10 years, 4 days ago

Social BPM and Smart Process Apps Are Improving Productivity for All Process Participants

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OT: OpenText recently contributed a chapter “How Social Technologies Enhance the BPM Experience for all Participants” to the book “Social BPM: Work, Planning and Collaboration Under the Impact of Social Technology”. What prompted OpenText to write about Social BPM?

DW: We are excited about exploring the technology and usage models found in social applications and the results that can be achieved by mapping them to the unique characteristics, diverse participants and emerging opportunities in Business Process Management (BPM).

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10 years, 1 month ago

We’re talking Smart Process Apps — and so is Forrester.

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“Smart Process Apps are a reflection of innovations we have been delivering in our business over the past few years — giving our customers more agile work environments, helping them innovate faster, and solving problems that extend beyond the boundaries of BPM for our customers.”

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10 years, 3 months ago

OpenText Smart Process Applications: At the Intersection of Social Street and Core Systems Ave

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Last week, I helped kick off OpenText’s EIM Days in Washington DC (the first of 22 cities we will visit) with a conversation around OpenText’s Smart Process Applications. Smart Process Applications are near and dear to our heart at OpenText as they encompass not just BPM and DCM technologies, but bring our integrated EIM portfolio (e.g., […]

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11 years, 16 days ago

Must-See Guide to Gartner EA

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As many of you are aware, the Gartner Enterprise Architecture (EA) Summit starts tomorrow in National Harbor, MD!  This year’s agenda looks promising – focusing heavily on how EA can and should deliver business value, growth and transformation. In our second annual Must-See Guide to Gartner EA, we’ve compiled our “Top Ten” list of eye-catching […]

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11 years, 1 month ago

High-Velocity BPM Comes to the Cloud

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For years, we have been known for our ability to rapidly deliver BPM solutions to our clients. It is also known that as a result of our intuitive user experience, many of our customers have quickly become self-sufficient in building a large portfolio of automated processes across their businesses.  Many customers have over hundreds processes […]

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11 years, 3 months ago

A Rising Tide Lifts All Ships

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How BPM Can Increase Your Overall SharePoint Maturity Over 43% of organizations deploying SharePoint are looking to purchase workflow or business process management (BPM) add-on applications for the platform, according to the 2011 “How Are Businesses Using SharePoint” survey. Like many businesses deploying SharePoint, usage within the organization expands dramatically as users find it a useful […]

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11 years, 3 months ago

Gamification is Central to Social

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Years ago when I was in school, I asked my business professor to share a bit of advice that he had found invaluable throughout the years. He offered me a simple quote, “Keeping score, improves the score.” I cannot count the number of times I’ve been reminded of that bit of advice. The idea of knowing what […]

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11 years, 5 months ago

When It Comes to Mobile Apps – Thin is In!

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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 by a combination of native apps, device neutral apps and hybrid apps which […]

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11 years, 6 months ago

The Buzz from our User Summit: Live Demo of Social & Mobile BPM

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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 audience of over 400 attendees through a scenario where people were: • interacting […]

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11 years, 7 months ago

Well on our way to 2019

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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 see these new technologies come to life. I had my process and case […]

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11 years, 7 months ago

The New iWorker Meets Adaptive Case Management

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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 growing use of these technologies has evolved millions into technology and social savvy […]

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