In a post today called BPMN 2.0: no longer for Business Professionals, Keith Swenson of Fujitsu (lead author of Mastering the Unpredictable) builds on a recent post on BPMN from Gartner’s Jim Sinur (BPMN for Business Professionals: Burn Baby...

Once considered a dirty word, no one today would doubt the importance of security. A decade ago, the world had a shock when the ILOVEYOU worm was unleashed by email, infecting an estimated 10% of computers worldwide. As such exploits became more...

I'm deeply interested in governance, but I've always felt that GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance) is a bit of a dead end. It often seems to focus purely on technology and in enforcing the letter of the regulations rather than on the spirit of good...

It’s been a couple of weeks since IBM announced it wanted to buy marketing automation software provider Unica for $480 million. Coincidentally it just so happens that it’s been a little over two weeks since I joined MWD and so has come...

For a while now, when I’ve had the opportunity, I’ve been asking IT vendors offering IT management-related products if they’ve ever considered using a BPM toolset/engine for the implementation of management and governance...

Avid readers will remember that I have written about EntropySoft a couple of times over the last two years. It is a specialist provider of content connectors, providing normalised access to content repositories. The connectors are optimised for...

The holiday months of June to August is not the time when you would normally expect to hear lots of BPM activity but this year appears to be different. Apriso started the ball rolling by announcing the availability of FlexNet 9.5 in June. This new...

The term “Big Data” has gained popularity over the past 12–24 months as a) amounts of data available to companies continually increase and b) technologies have emerged to more effectively manage this data. Of course, large...

As cloud evolves, there will need to be some fairly fundamental changes in how things are done. If all that cloud manages to do is to shift the platform focus from the corporate data centre to an external one, then cloud will have failed. If...

I am an associate member of the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA) and was sent the following request. I am not involved day to day in the development process so I cannot respond. I have looked at the survey and I believe the...

The other day I was looking at the analytics discussion board that I moderate on the Information Management site. I had posted a topic entitled “the value of advanced analytics.” I noticed that the number of views on this topic was at...

To quote Steve LaValle from an IBM Global Business Services Executive Report, in top-performing organisations, analytics have replaced intuition as the best way to answer questions about what markets to pursue, how to configure and price offerings,...

With the recession stubbornly lingering, many small and medium businesses (SMBs) are still pinching pennies and looking to trim expenses. Dimdim, which provides free Web conferencing for up to 20 users, and charges just $25 per month for Dimdim Pro...

I will leave it to others to comment on the overall impact that Mark Hurd has had on HP since he became CEO, and the only general remark I will make about his departure is that a drop in the share price of something approaching 10% seems pretty much...

W3C recently announced the release of Unicorn, a one-stop tool to help people improve the quality of their Web pages. Unicorn combines a number of popular tools from W3C in a single, easy interface, including the Markup validator, CSS validator,...

BBC News has shown how straightforward it is to create a malicious application for a smartphone. Over a few weeks, the BBC put together a crude game for a smartphone that also spied on the owner of the handset. The application was built using...

News that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia want to block the use of some BlackBerry features rumbles on.I was interviewed for my opinions on Aljazeera TV's Inside Story by presenter Teymoor Nabili, along with Thomas Shambler, the...

Last week, Google announced that it was killing off Google Wave, the communications and collaboration tool which sparked an explosion of both enthusiasm and skepticism when it first previewed in May last year. The tool, which has remained a trial...

(Originally published on July 30, 2010 in Small Business Computing) What is Business Intelligence? Business intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term used to encompass the processes, methods, measurements and systems businesses use to more easily...

It is not just UK plc that needs to balance its books. Many businesses face the same challenge as the country slowly recovers from recession. The upturn should lead to an increase in sales for many businesses, but it also makes sense to cut costs...