Last week I sat with ½ dozen attendees of our Gartner Business Process Management Summit here in San Diego at one of our so-called “Analyst / User Roundtable” discussions. With just a little facilitation this lively group of folks from diverse industry backgrounds came up with a simple set of guidelines for determining “When to [...]
Entries from March 2009
When to Use a BPM Suite
March 25th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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About Me
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments
Benoit Lheureux is Research Vice President of Gartner Research and Agenda Manager for the Application Platforms (Middleware) Research Area. His research focuses on application and process integration in multi-enterprise (business-to-business) scenarios. Benoit has 30 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to Gartner he was a senior architect for BeXcom, helping to design multienterprise [...]
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SaaS APIs are Retro – You Know, Just Like EDI
March 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments
The CEO of a respectable mid-sized supply chain integration company has a clever schtick to convince prospective customers that they don’t *want* to do B2B integration themselves – he keeps a pile of thick plastic binders stuffed with various retailer EDI implementation guides in his executive conference room.
EDI specifications are generally heavyweight – often 25 [...]
Tags: SaaS Integration