This week Software AG announced its cloud-based platform-as-a-service suite Software AG Live. The suite consists of AgileApps Live, Process Live and Integration Live. Stefan Ried, Principal Analyst at Forrester wrote a great summary about Software AG Live in his blog. I am especially excited about Process Live because as some of you might already know, I have been around in [...]

  Today at Gartner’s AADI conference in London, Software AG articulates its long awaited approach to the cloud paradigm. Under the wrapper Software AG Live, we will mix up the PaaS space with an array of services launched throughout 2013. Here are the key aspects of the announcement and factors of differentiation in the market place. Industry Context CIOs of [...]

Many of you have been waiting for this: ARIS 9 is available as of today. The newest ARIS release combines 20 years of process improvement experience with the latest technology trends of cloud, mobile, social collaboration and big data/information. ARIS 9 takes a quantum leap forward in process design, publishing, analysis and collaborative improvement. Here’s a summary of the highlights: [...]

As I mentioned in my post last week, I was inspired to write about the Electrolux presentation given by Jean Lastowka at the recent Gartner BPM Summit. The presentation was about how process improvement and real-time supply chain visibility are game changers for Electrolux. But what makes this story unique is Jean attended the BPM summit last year where she [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How many IT projects have you seen where the business requirements weren’t  implemented or only partly implemented? In my experience, the business blames IT for not following their requirements and IT blames the business for not giving clear enough requirements. But it doesn’t matter where the blame lies the better question is, what can be done to avoid such an [...]

My favorite part of my job is working with customers. I admire their vision, strategy and approach to solving complex problems. Each customer challenge is unique and different. I work with some of the largest European companies and government agencies, who’s application landscape contain intricate business processes designed to solve various challenges. With the release of ARIS 9.0 only weeks [...]