by Daryl Plummer | February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments
The Gartner Cool Vendors process happens at the beginning of each year and terminates in the April timeframe with the publication of our annual list of relatively un-known but interesting IT vendors. In early January, we launched the internal nominations process for identifying Cool Vendors candidates. After a month of interaction, we finally reviewed and [...]
Category: Applications Broker Business Process Management Cloud Cool Vendors Tags: Billing, Business, Cloud, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | November 8, 2010 | 8 Comments
I’m about to introduce a term to describe a solid trend in cloud computing integration – Cloudstreams. It will come as no surprise to those of you who have spoken to me that this trend lays in the domain of cloud services brokerage. I have said, and will continue to say, that cloud services brokerage [...]
Category: Cloud EA ERP Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google IAM IT Governance SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts Virtualization Windows 7 Tags: Billing, Business, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Commoditization, Communities, Elasticity, hype, IBM, Inrastructure, IT, private cloud, Smarter Planet, SOA, Social, Telecommunications, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | November 25, 2009 | Comments Off
The days of thanks begin at birth. For the few things we adults see as thankful-giving are echoed in the heart of the giving that came when we were put together as children. So conceive again the child… Conceive every day the living breath… Conceive again the joy of light seen through eyes not blinded [...]
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Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Thanksgiving Tags: Business, Cloud, Cloud computing, Jokes, Obama, Opportunity, private cloud
by Daryl Plummer | September 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
Recently, my colleague, Elise Olding asked me to draw a cartoon depicting the tension between the emotional side and the analytical side of BPM. She recently published a note about it where we intended to use the cartoons but circumstances prevented them being published together. The note, called “Don’t Let Your Emotions blow Up Your [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Tags: BPM, BPMS, Business, Business Process Management, Composition, Culture, Lean, Organization, Process, Six Sigma, SOA, Tools
by Daryl Plummer | January 14, 2009 | Comments Off
There is a change on the horizon and it is about voyeurism. No, no, no – get your mind out of the gutter, the kind of voyeurism I’m referring to here is “Voyeuristic Business”. That means businesses that are based almost entirely on observing and capitalizing on what other people – not part of the [...]
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Category: Cloud Emerging Phenomena Tags: Business, Communities, Content, Social Networking, Voyeurism
