ELS ?

ELS?  Yeah, that’s what I said when I was with a US manufacturer earlier this week.  I’d not come across this particular TLA and needed clarification – Enterprise (of course!) Lean Sigma.
This reminded me of a forthcoming ebizQ webinar being conducted by IBM next week.  This is taking a look at SOA + Lean Sigma [...]

Audit fatigue

McAfee are undertaking ongoing research into compliance audits and their impact on IT functions.  Writing on the OCEG website Evelyn de Souza of McAfee states:
“The most notable finding was the lack of automation tools in organizations with more than 5,000 employees. More than half of the respondents used either unspecified tools or spreadsheets. Timely and [...]

BPM the new frontier for FLOSS

Extract from the Open World Forum Roadmap 2002, p61:
“Recommendation #11
BPM/Management will be the new frontier in FLOSS applications.
Beyond infrastructures and even ERP, the management of the mashup IT and business services of tomorrow will be key to the future. Large communities must develop key initiatives, to build open foundations for these tools, around large multi-vendor [...]

On-demand needing a change in mind-set

I’ve been working over the last few days with a couple of relative newcomers to the on-demand application software space.  One is bpm and the other webforms.  Of course on-demand software isn’t anything new per-se and we all use it everyday.  The Google search engine is, after all, an on-demand service.
However, my use of these [...]

Intalio Developer Edition

Spent yesterday evening at the Institute of Electrical Engineers in London with Arnaud and the guys from Intalio getting the score on their release schedule.  They are doing a whistle-stop tour of briefings in major European cities, so having been over to IntalioCon in June I thought I would make the shorter journey to London [...]

GoOpen-E conference

Copyright © Jason Woodruff.  Visit the original at http://jasonwoodruff.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/goopen-e-conference/
WHAT?  Conference for users of open technologies for BPM, BI, BRM, SOA, ROA, WOA, EAI
WHERE?  Newcastle/Gateshead
WHEN?  The Autumn
Contributors needed.  Particularly keynote speakers and user organisations from the UK and Europe.
Email jason@open-source-network.org
See related page.

Interview with Ismael Ghalimi

http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=652