Hi. Sorry I haven’t been blogging recently – the rowing season is upon us so that’s taken up a lot of evenings training and it has been one of those times where I’ve been ear-deep in creating new material. One of the things that kept me busy has been the recently published “Cordys for ISVs” white paper and Cordys Content On Demand page focused on our ISV customers and value proposition. As I’ve been working on these materials – it … Read more
Category Archives: BPM
Cordys ranked as a Strong Performer in BPM Suites report
I am just coming out of an executive workshop with a prospective customer discussing the challenges of business transformation in an organization with an international footprint, complex stakeholder structure and heterogeneous IT landscape. For me Forrester’s timing of releasing the BPM Suite Wave report was impeccable. This customer is looking for an agile platform leveraging existing ERP back-ends, end-to-end process management across business functions and locations in the organization, across the extended enterprise. They are seeking for ways to enhance … Read more
Smooth BPM the Silver Lining Of Cloud Computing
Hi. I was interviewed recently by Cloudtweaks and I wanted to share the article that was written on the Cordys blog. Since the interview, you may have seen the Cordys/Forrester PaaS webinar. The webinar discussed how PaaS could enable cloud based business transformation. Stefan Ried discussed the different flavors of PaaS, one of which is Process PaaS. BPM has long promised the ability to change or transform how a business operates and this added further weight to the article below. … Read more
When PaaS and middleware fall in love and make babies – the next step in cloud platform evolution
Firstly, a belated happy new year from a snowy UK. Secondly, there will be no references to cloud computing getting amorous with middleware and spawning PaaS children (other than this one). Imagine the situation, Mr Middleware is sat in a nightclub looking for love and he catches the glance of Miss PaaS who is looking to settle down and form a meaningful relationship. There is some dancing and getting to know each other and before you know it they are … Read more
We Are All Cloud Brokers Now
One of the most fascinating developments in our industry is the morphing of technology providers into service providers over the past decade. Whether it’s an IT VP at McKesson (he did a great podcast last year that you can hear here) describing how he uses the cloud to essentially get out of the systems business so he can be closer to his companies business operations and their needs, or the emergence of brilliantly innovative companies like Smartronix, who’s Cloud Assured … Read more
How Santa Claus uses BPM
Last weekend, I spent a most excellent two hours watching the animated film, Arthur Christmas with my children. For those of you that haven’t seen it, the story involves three generations of the Santa Claus “family” and what goes wrong when one child’s present isn’t delivered on Christmas Eve. My personal highlight is Bill Nighy as the voice of “Grandsanta” who has retired and appears to spend lots of time drinking very strong Eggnog. Grandsanta is an advocate of the … Read more
Fixing the small problems
Hi, my name is Kris Mills and I’m a Senior Solutions Engineer at Cordys. A couple of months ago I went out to finally purchase, well lease, a new vehicle. Although I looked at many makes and models, I decided on the Mercedes Benz C350, it seemed to offer the most options and quality for the buck and with the high residual it actually leased out much cheaper than less expensive makes. After a test drive and some negotiations we … Read more
Cordial 2012 – The Big Shift – Action Replay- Part 2
Day 2 of Cordial started with everyone comparing who had the best sunset photo from the helicopter flights the evening before – my personal favourite was from Daniel Spithout. As soon as the queue for the coffee machine had subsided, we started the day with Hans de Visser (Cordys CMO) talking about how the Dutch had mastered the cloud very early in 17th century art. He was followed by Jan Baan explaining how an organization’s processes should be driven by … Read more
Leveraging Cloud-Based Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS) to Improve Your Business Processes
For decades, organizations have been trying to improve their business processes to keep pace with escalating customer demands, rising competitive pressures and changing end-user requirements with limited success. The promise of business process reen generic viagra soft gineering (BPR) in the 1980s gave way to business process outsourcing (BPO) in the 1990s with only limited success. And, over the past decade, the economic downturn has made it even more critical that organizations change the way they operate. THINKstrategies believes that … Read more
Welcome to the Enterprise Cloud Platform
Over the last twelve months Cordys have been helping our customers benefit from cloud computing and we’ve been building a number of strong customer successes. We’ve been putting the finishing touches to what we feel and the analysts have commented is the most complete PaaS offering focused on enterprises, service providers and business users. Welcome to The Enterprise Cloud Platform! Read more