BPM and Operational Intelligence

I am intrigued by a new development in computing that seems to be getting more traction. Operational Intelligence (OI). What is it? Well, we have all heard of Business Intelligence (BI); collect & analyze your data for an epiphany into market behavior. OI seeks to do the same thing but with Events instead of Data. The key concept in OI is the concept of Complex Event Processing or CEP.

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Looking for the Silver Lining in the Financial Turmoil

With the unemployment rate rising, the financial bailout program getting worked out and the stimulus bill still in debate with the US Senate we have to wonder where the silver lining is. However there is hope and one global industry that can benefit from this crisis is the IT (Information Technology) sector.

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SOA and what it means to Business

Technology is changing at a rapid pace in the current business environment and businesses have to make sure that their technology implementations support the latest IT trends but only those which are absolutely needed to boost their business and provide greater return on investments. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a latest trend which promises to solve various problems and ease of monitoring and achieve higher degree of success in different aspects in the business line.

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BPM Implementation – an Enterprise-wide perspective

In my previous post, I wrote about the Business Process Life-Cycle, which looks at a process and its growth to maturity. In this post, I discuss a BPM implementation from an enterprise-wide perspective at a high-level. A BPM implementation is unlike the traditional software development. For one thing, the end-users need to get involved way too ahead in the game and need to stay in the loop much more than in traditional software development.

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BPM – Bridging the Business-IT gap

“There is nothing permanent except change” – Heraclitus 6th Century BC. To lead in the business environment is to embrace change. In most of organizations, senior executives to developers struggle with one common factor – the “UNKNOWNS” and primarily suffer because of the following underlying reasons:

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