Innovation

April 7, 2011

The new role of IT – from Cost Center to Business Platform Provider

IT can, driven by APaaS, become a Business Platform Provider and facilitate Business Value, and move beyond being Cost Center. While IT may, for some time to come, control the buying and maintenance of such platforms, the key to their success lies in understanding that they need to focus on the role of platform Engineering… Continue reading

Architecture, BPM, Business, Cloud Computing, Innovation, Management, Platform-as-a-Service, Technology

APaaS, Application Development, Best practices, BPM, BPM COE, Business Process Management, Cloud, COE, Enterprise Architecture, linkedin, Management, PaaS, Platform-as-a-Service, Technology
April 1, 2011

Google leapfrogs into BPM with Noodle!

Google has finally arrived into the Enterprise space with their Enterprise BPM offering called Noodle (named after process spaghetti!). They have silently put together their technology and shaped them beautifully into what we have been missing “in one single platform” for a long time. Here’s a sneak-peek at what they have unleashed out of the blue… Continue reading

BPM, Business, Innovation, Marketing, Technology

ACM, Adaptive BPM, April Fool’s Day, BPM, Business Process Management, Case Management, Cloud, Collaboration, Enterprise BPM, linkedin, Social BPM, Technology
February 27, 2011

The Long tail of Apps wags, powered by PaaS

Platform as a Service enables the application management of all those Long tail Applications that have until now remained a painful ghost set for all practical purposes. And if you notice the visual, business domain focused, rapid development characteristics of the underlying technologies of these Long tail Apps, there’s no doubt that new age PaaS… Continue reading

Architecture, Cloud Computing, Innovation, Management, Platform-as-a-Service, Technology

Application Development, Application Management, Capex, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, KTLO, linkedin, Long tail, Longtail, Opex, PaaS, Technology
September 24, 2010

White Collar Developer, You Can Smile Now!

While IT continued to flourish and expand, the core technical strengths still ruled in technology world. The dream of business value driven development continued to remain distant. But, there are at least two real trends that change all that – BPM and Cloud Computing (PaaS & SaaS). The two key reasons they live up to… Continue reading

Architecture, BPM, Cloud Computing, Innovation, Technology

Abstraction, Application Development, BPM, Business Modeling, Cloud, Enterprise Apps, Enterprise Architecture, linkedin, Modeling driven development, OrangeScape, PaaS, SaaS, Solution Architecture, Technology, White Collar Developer
August 28, 2010

Vendor Lock-In & Proprietary Technology: Ask the Right Questions!

Vendor Lock-in. Proprietary Technology. Switching Costs. These phrases are thrown out there more often than they need to be, without real thought to what the concerns actually are. Asking the right questions is important. If you want some real functionality and technological strength for a price, prioritize that and do not confuse a proprietary &… Continue reading

Architecture, Business, Design, Management, Technology

Best practices, Closed Systems, Cloud, Decision Making, Enterprise Architecture, linkedin, Management, Open Architecture, Proprietary Technology, Standards, Switching Costs, Technology, Vendor Lock-in
May 20, 2010

Don Your Green and Blue Hats, BPM-the-Social-Way is much more!

Any-whichever way we look at it, technologically or as a way to make businesses better, BPM-the-social-way is much more than what “Social BPM” seems right now… time to don the Green and Blue Hats! Continue reading

Architecture, BPM, Business, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Technology

BPM, Business Process Management, Collaboration, Collaborative Process Design, linkedin, Management, Process Discovery, Social BPM, Social Networking, Technology
May 13, 2010

Case v/s Process – Not about Architecture & Tools, It’s Culture

There are tools that have capability to do Process Management in structured manner, and there are tools with capability to perform dynamic case management. What you need depends on how you want to treat the situations and incidents. You want Case Management culture or Process Management culture – that’s the key. Everything could be treated… Continue reading

Architecture, BPM, Business, Design, Leadership, Management, Technology

BPM, Business, Business Process Management, Case Management, Enterprise BPM, linkedin, Management, Process Culture, Technology
May 13, 2010

Quicklectic: Popular Posts and Redux Update

[tweetmeme source=”ashish_bhagwat” only_single=false] A quick update on what’s up at Eclectic Zone… Last week, I have started blogging at Redux Online as guest blogger. I feel excited about being able to share my thoughts through more channels. I already have few posts there, check them out! There’s one on BPM-SOA confusion titled “And We Thought Continue reading

Architecture, BPM, Business, Design, Management, Technology

Best practices, BPM, Business, Business Process Management, Cloud, Enterprise BPM, Management, Redux Online, Technology, Update
May 1, 2010

Is this Data for BPM?

IBM have published a new research topic and standard called BEDL (Business Entity Definition Lanuage), the theme is Data4BPM. But, this is Data modeling redux. And please do not call this as Data4BPM – right concepts that always existed but not applicable to current state of BPM! Read to know why… Continue reading

Architecture, BPM, Business, Design, Innovation, Management, Technology

BEDL, Best practices, BPM, BPMS, Business, Data4BPM, Enterprise BPM, IBM, linkedin, Technology
April 19, 2010

Will Social Networking Wave Wash Away Centers of Excellence?

Theo Priestly brought up a stirring point and claimed that social wave while removing silos will also bring the extinction of the COEs. Well, I disagree. In this post I cover the premise of BPM COE, and the the reasons I do not believe that BPM COEs could get washed away with the social wave. Continue reading

BPM, Business, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Technology

Best practices, BPM, BPM COE, Business, Business Process Management, COE, Collaboration, Enterprise BPM, Human Behavior, linkedin, Management, Social BPM, Social Networking, Technology, ZQEARKWAVWQK