by David McCoy | April 13, 2011 | Submit a Comment
John Dixon and I are writing research on Business Rules functionality delivered as a service in a “Platform as a Service” model. It’s a rare bird today. Demand for pure BRM-aaS? Not sure. BR functionality is often bundled with other functionality (e.g., BPM) and if you’re going to the cloud, why wouldn’t you go with [...]
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by David McCoy | October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
Check out our new web page on Pattern-Based Strategy. For those of you who follow our research on business process management suites (BPMS), business rule management (BRM), simulation, business activity monitoring (BAM) and Complex Event Processing (CEP), you can see it all coming together in a really big way!
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by David McCoy | July 16, 2009 | 7 Comments
This is interesting. We all know the “process” for opening a banana, yes? Sure. Well, that process is not optimal. Check out this video and ask, “Who was the original process owner for ‘opening a banana’?” I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t us. Next time, find the original process owner and see how he [...]
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by David McCoy | June 24, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Scenario 1: Attended a kid birthday party at one of those game-pizza-noise places. Everyone who comes in gets stamped with a UV readable number. Upon leaving, you take only the kids that match your number. Fair deal. Well, I watched families leaving and no one was checking them out. In fact, there was no one [...]
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by David McCoy | April 28, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Gartner defines agility as, “the ability of an organization to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively.” Sounds simple doesn’t it? And who doesn’t want to be agile? Daryl Plummer and I have led Gartner’s agility research for years and you know… “being agile” is a lot harder than it sounds. Besides all the [...]
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by David McCoy | April 17, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Scenario 1: Truck marked “Law Enforcement” towing a trailer with no working brake lights. Stops in front of me and I almost rear-end him. Scenario 2: Van marked “Police” races past me and runs a full red light while I stop. This was a “work detail” van – roadside trash collection with prison labor. No [...]
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by David McCoy | April 16, 2009 | Submit a Comment
I’m doing some basic data gathering from several sources – typical work of an analyst. In this blog posting, I’m looking for some current anecdotal evidence around BPM investment analysis mechanics – nothing fancy. From our BPM survey, we know that cost savings are critical BPM measures of success. I’m interested in the mechanics of [...]
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by David McCoy | March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’m a card-carrying fan of The Three Stooges. Yes, I’m male… so we know that my admiration is genetically-wired, but it’s still admiration. Late last night, when I couldn’t sleep, I watched some pristine new releases of classic Columbia Stooges shorts and couldn’t help but wonder: “What if The Three Stooges had been cast in [...]
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by David McCoy | March 10, 2009 | 4 Comments
I have just put the last comma in a new piece of research that will be out this quarter, entitled: Taking the Mystery Out of Business Rule Representation. As a hint at what we researched, I am including one of the main graphics: a chart that shows the various rule representation approaches plotted against two [...]
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by David McCoy | February 2, 2009 | 7 Comments
Should all processes be visible to all process participants? Nope. While it may sound like BPM heresy, some processes should remain behind closed doors for certain participants who will be involved in the process. The facts follow… I lunched with an architect a while back at one of our BPM conferences. She made it clear [...]
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