We all deal with data on a day-to-day basis. We handle data as knowledge workers, data crunchers, data creators or consumers in our daily routines. And, I am not even talking about your work yet. You pick up your newspaper in the morning (yes, some of us still do!) and scan through the stocks. You are the consumer of the [...]

As we have been preparing our webinar series on Innovation through Integration, I keep coming to the same conclusion that integration isn’t just a nice to have, or a piece of infrastructure to consider. Rather, integration is the name of the game. In fact, integration has become the application. I am sure there are exceptions to the rule, and the [...]

The other day I was thinking about how our customers are accessing data residing in their webMethods OneData platform. Surprisingly, there are so many ways. For example, we have customers embedding OneData portlets in some of their applications. This provides read-only access to data, but it’s just like being there. Actually it IS being there, with anonymous user privileges. We [...]

This week I attended the Gartner BPM Summit in Washington DC and by no surprise  the four forces (cloud, mobile, social, information) and their impact on process improvement continue to be a hot topic of discussion.  Though I found the attendance to be a bit lower than normal, I still found the tracks filled with interesting topics and content I [...]

These are challenging times for online retailers. Customer loyalty is short lived and just one unpleasant experience can lead to losing the customer for life. Customers not only expect a great experience across all touchpoints but also demand the best price and an accurate understanding of their needs. Get this mix right, though, and loyalty pays huge dividends in increasing [...]

Why is integration more important today than ever before? The answer lies in the way technology forces are reshaping IT. In fact, today we are witnessing a perfect storm of technology trends. These trends are collectively becoming known as the “four forces” of mobile, social, cloud and big data, and they are creating an opportunity for companies to leverage the proliferation [...]

I see this a lot, organizations invest tons of time in analysing and modeling business processes. And they end up with a collection of process models but still don’t know which processes should be automated with BPMS technology. And I think this is because many organizations struggle with how to get started with process automation. For example, should they tackle simple [...]

The industry is full of the hype surrounding Big Data and it seems that everywhere you go there is another infographic on Big Data. Big Data has some very impressive numbers with data growing at an amazing rate. At last count we are almost at 4 Zettabytes growing to a projected 35 Zettabytes by 2020 I am sure this projection will [...]