Responses elsewhere suggest I wasn't specific enough originally. These questions apply to the enterprise social networking system that your organisation has or is intending to create. Has anybody asked what the problem is? Have you asked? Has anyone...

Although it’s not a formal part of the BPM research programme I set out in advance at the end of last year, in the past few weeks I’ve been drawn into looking in some detail at the emerging process mining space. Process mining has been...

Has anybody asked? Have you asked? Has anyone asked you? What do you think the problem is? Do you think there is one? Why are you / they doing it, then?

If Service Management is important to you then the ITIL 2011 update is something at the top of your agenda. If it isn't, then I'm sorry, you're missing a trick. How can delivering a business outcome to the business not be important to anyone who...

‘BPM in the cloud’ is one of the key themes of our 2012 BPM industry research programme, and as a part of that we’ve just published a short online survey that’s designed to help us quickly take the pulse of what’s going...

Some time ago, I expressed concern about whether current IT approaches could cope with the need of the emerging universe of things - machines and sensors in machines, all generating vast amounts of data all of the time. Now, RTI, one of the...

This week marks the one year anniversary of the IBM Watson computer system succeeding at Jeopardy!. Since then, IBM has gotten a lot of interest in Watson.  Companies want one of those. But what exactly is Watson and what makes it unique?  What does...

RSA has recently published their 2012 cybercrime trends report. They calculate that every minute, 232 computers are infected by malware, despite on going education and awareness campaigns. Unfortunately the incompetent and non-malicious user will...

I will be attending Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of this month (February 2012). In particular I will be speaking at the security forum on a subject close to my heart... An increasing number of companies are opening corporate...

Last Novemeber I wrote a blog about the inaccessibility of mobile apps. In it I used Apple iOS as an example of a accessible platform and then bemoaned the fact that many apps running under iOS were not accessible. I used iOS because it had, with...

It's that time of the year again, when I remind people of the annual Conference of the Configuration Management Specialist Group of the BCS - I'm on its committee. I'm on the Committee, not because it pays me any money but because I think that...

Over the years I’ve been part of many conversations that revolve around how ‘BPM’ is not the same as ‘BPMN’ (in the context of process automation). The point consistently made is that even when you’re tackling...

Next in my discussion of big data providers is IBM.  Big data plays right into IBM’s portfolio of solutions in the information management space. It also dove tails very nicely with the company’s Smarter Planet strategy. Smarter Planet...

Cloud-based computing is growing faster than the IT sector as a whole. There are plenty of analysts throwing numbers about regarding cloud spending. Here are some from Forrester Research: in 2011, US$40.7 billion was spent on public, private and...

I am continuing to investigate Hadoop storage options as I get briefed by more vendors and as new products get released. In this article I want to focus on Cassandra. DataStax is the leading commercial provider for distributions of Cassandra, which...

Newspapers and blogs have been full of the news that Eastman Kodak and its US subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 protection from their creditors. You can get a copy of the filing here. Kodak has created a special Web site about the matter,...

Of all the conversations and discussions held at Salesforce’s customer day in Egham this week, one in particular struck a chord with me. Cloudapps, an ISV and partner of Salesforce, spoke briefly about the challenges of capturing, storing and...

This week, I attended IBM’s Lotusphere 2012, IBM’s annual customer and partner event which showcases the latest products and strategy in the area of collaboration. Like last year, “social business” was squarely at the centre...

I have written about RainStor previously. Hitherto it has had a single product, what is now known as RainStor Data Retention but it has now announced a second: RainStor Data Analytics for Hadoop. First, a re-iteration of what the basic product does....

Sorry if this isn't hot news, but sometimes the business really doesn't like the IT group very much. The IT group is seen as the people who say NO when the business comes up with a neat new idea. And that is one reason why things like end user...