Information technology has come under attack from many quarters since the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Yet another blow was struck recently in Harvard Business Review’s sensationally titled article, “IT Doesn’t Matter”†. The IT community, still smarting from a two year slump in business volume and an unprecedented slide in stock prices, was quick to rebut the article’s contention that IT may no longer be the basis for competitive advantage. The wave of rebuttals included comments by industry luminaries such as Bill Gates of Microsoft and Intel’s Craig Barrett, and even gave impulse to a book by Smith and Fingar, IT Doesn’t Matter – Business Processes Do.†â€
Integrating SAP Through BPM Technology
An Interview with Mark Evans, CIO of Tesoro Petroleum
Integration Trends and Forecasts
Featuring: Ken Vollmer, Conference Co-Chairman and Research Director, Integration Strategies, Giga Information Group
Preparing For Next-Generation BPM
Featuring: Sharyn Leaver, a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research
Where Application Development Meets BPM
Featuring: Steve Dunaway, Director of Systems Development for DSI Technology Escrow Services
Business Process Management: A Key Component of e-Business Strategy
Featuring: Ken Vollmer, Research Director of Integration Strategies, Giga Information Group
Emerging Businesses, Integration Issues and their Risks
An interview with Jon Carrow, Director of Global IT Sourcing, Wyeth
Legacy Software – Junkyard Wars for Web Services
FEATURING: Matthew Hotle, Group Vice President and Research
Group Director at Gartner
Web Services Come of Age
An interview with Ted Schadler, Principal Analyst, Software, Forrester Research
Technical Brief: Current Projects of the Workflow Management Coalition and the Business Process Management Initiative
The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) have been working together on common standards that will facilitate the broader use of workflow tools and technologies and the use of XML business process languages. The last meeting of the joint working group of the WfMC and BPMI.org was held on February 12th, 2003 in San Diego, CA. During that meeting the two groups established areas of common activity, and ways that the work of each group could be focused towards a common goal.