This post is being written live from the ProcessForum in Moscow where I just spoke about Enterprise BPM and its impact on the organizational ability to change. Talking about change, last time I was in Moscow was in 1985 and it is unbelievable how the city progressed since then… It is also great to see [...]

On September 15th we will start an EBPM webcast series which will cover the overall concept of Enterprise BPM and the different EBPM entry points: Process Transformation, Process Automation and Process Intelligence. The first webcast will be held by Dr. Wolfram Jost, CTO of Software AG, and Jasmin Brandl from the pharmaceutical company Kneipp. You [...]

BPM can be a beast. It can be: Big – because it involves multiple projects, departments and budgetary commitment Messy – it crosses organizational boundaries, tackles culture  and politics, involves learning and experience Hard – it requires new skills development, staff training, etc. Broad – it covers a wide range of scenarios within and beyond [...]

When I became the owner of the Process Excellence track at ProcessWorld 2011 I was very happy because there is no better way to get first hand information on the current state of BPM in organizations. In this post, I will share three customer presentations held at ProcessWorld Europe in Berlin. German Ministry of Defense [...]

How would you like to save $2 million a year?  What if you could eliminate more than $30 million in potential spend?  Do you think your organization is interested in reducing work by more than 25%? I thought so!  And guess what, our customers have proven you can do this, repeatedly.  Our 2011 Customer and [...]

Being the CEO of  a mobile technology company that has just been acquired by Software AG you won’t be surprised to hear that I am a fan of the mobile sector and the benefits it brings, yet with one obvious exception mobile devices are hugely underused in most corporations, in a way that is at [...]

With the recent launch of Process Intelligence (PI) by Software AG, there have been some rumbling in the reporting world that PI is just a new rehashing of Business Intelligence (BI).  I believe that nothing could be further from the truth so would like to address this question head on.  PI represents a refreshingly new [...]