bpmredux.com on ActiveVOS: “..tremendous buzz…that shines through…”
April 2nd, 2010 by Alex Neihausbpmredux.com, the voice of BPM analyst and blogger Theo Priestley, has just published a mini-review of ActiveVOS 7.
We are very gratified to have attracted Theo’s attention and for his perceptive analysis of what makes ActiveVOS unique.
Theo’s overview of ActiveVOS is different from many others because he took note of our enthusiasm for BPM in general and ActiveVOS in particular. He talks about our (somewhat lame) attempts at humor and I thought readers of this blog might be interested in the full story.
With the change in the US to daylight-saving time in mid March followed a week or so later by the change in Scotland to British Summer Time, our meeting time got confused. While we were waiting for Theo, we made up new titles for ourselves. It was the kind of the idle, gallows humor a group sometimes indulges in before a big meeting. The “tm” symbols are a bit of a take-off on business cards we’d recently been given by a marketing firm that was trade marking ordinary terms.
Unlike some BPMS vendors – who would have put on their overly-serious faces when the analyst showed up – we went with the silly titles because we thought they were hilarious – and because BPM should not be a humorless discussion of dry technology. BPM is an exciting, vibrant product space as capable of generating passionate discussion as the next gizmo from a consumer electronics company associated with fruit grown on trees.
Here’s an image from the slide deck showing the titles we used to introduce ourselves to Theo:

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