VOSibilities

Every Wednesday at noon ET, 17:00 UTC, we present a live webinar followed by a Q&A with our product manager, Mike Moniz, that takes a look at the features of ActiveVOS BPMS. You can always register for the upcoming webinar here.

However, we realize that this is a very inconvenient time for people in Asia-Pacific and some other time zones. So, we occasionally record the most recent webinar and post it to the blog. Attached to this post are three versions of the same recording. One, a .m4v file, is intended for iPod touch/iPhone users and is also available in our podcast feed. Second is a Flash .flv file (which can also be played directly on the blog). Finally, there’s an Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv. These files are large, because the webinar lasted over an hour. But the content is worth the download time.

 VOSibilities podcast #40: ActiveVOS 7 demonstration [77:31m]: Download (257)

 

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In the latest episode of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight series, Dana covers the concept of business commerce clouds. Panelists commenting on this topic include: Tony Baer of Ovum, Brad Shimmin of Current Analysis, Jason Bloomberg of ZapThink and independent IT analysts Sandy Kemsley and JP Morgenthal. Have a listen to this podcast for these experts’ perspectives on SaaS, SOA, BPM, reliability, security and community as related to business commerce clouds.

In addition to the audio file, we have also posted a PDF transcript of the podcast, for your convenience.

 

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We are pleased to present the latest episode of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight. This time Dana talks with noted industry analyst Dave Linthicum about his new book on SOA and cloud computing.

We hope you enjoy this fascinating interview. Also, in case you’re interested, you can also access a white paper Dave recently wrote on SOA development tools here.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #45: Dave Linthicum's new book on SOA and cloud computing [45:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2078)
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A panel of industry experts discuss the impact of Software AG’s acquisition of IDS Sheer and what it might mean for BPM vendors, especially SAP.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights podcast episode 44 [49:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1668)
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In this fascinating podcast, Luc Clément, senior director of products, and Michael Rowley, director of technology and strategy, discuss two very important topics in business process management systems (BPMS): workflow and rich internet applications (RIA). First, Michael overviews the progress that’s been made in the BPEL4People technical committee towards finalizing both the BPEL4People and WS-Human Task standards, hopefully by the end of this year. Then, he elaborates on how these standards change workflow forever and offer BPM development teams apabilities that make it easy to integrate human tasks into automated processes.

Then, Luc describes a a new SDK for ActiveVOS that permits Java developers to take advantage of the WS-Human Task worklist management capabilities. Luc and Michael point out that this Java SDK is just the beginning of what they are planning in ActiveVOS 7.0.

In a more detailed preview of ActiveVOS 7.0 than they have provided in previously, Michael and Luc discuss the architectural value of “eliminating” the presentation tier while coupling an AJAX-based, drag-and-drop UI generation capability directly to the ActiveVOS BPMS.

If you are interested in BPM, workflow, integrating human task and delivery of advanced processes to end users via portals and/or Web 2.0 and RIA technologies, you will find this podcast very informative.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #34: BPMS, workflow and rich internet applications (RIA) [20:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1599)

We are pleased to post this episode of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight Edition episode 42. This time, Dana and his industry analyst panel discuss the impact of cloud computing and the need for governance in the cloud. It’s a very interesting topic and one you will want to hear these experts’ perspectives on.

In addition to the audio file, we have also posted a PDF transcript of the podcast, for your convenience.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #42: Governance in cloud computing [44:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2094)
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I am very excited to post a replay of an exceptionally well-received webinar we first presented on June 3, 2009. In this webinar, noted analyst, blogger and consultant Sandy Kemsley joins us to present IT-Business Collaboration on BPM.

Sandy’s riveting presentation gets to the very core of a heated, on-going debate about business process management (BPM): Can business end users actually develop and deploy complex, integrated business processes using today’s business process management systems (BPMSs)? Will they? Even, should they?

You will hear Sandy discuss the “four myths of BPM,” namely:

• Myth #1: Users will use a BPMS to create executable process models
• Myth #2: Business users and analysts can create executable process models
• Myth #3 (My favorite!): Business users want to create executable business process models
• Myth #4: IT wants business end users to use a BPMS to create executable process models

I think you will find Sandy’s detailed discussion of these issues fascinating. And, after Sandy’s talk you can see how the ActiveVOS BPMS fits how things should be: a world in which development teams composed of IT and business analysts collaborate to create integrated, end-to-end, deployable process models.

Because of the very positive feedback we received from the attendees who attended the live webinar, I am posting multiple versions of the recording to ensure that you have the opportunity to watch it. In addition to the usual iPod-formatted .m4v file (140MB), this post also contains a 437MB DivX-encoded .avi file and a 94MB Windows Media 9-encoded .wmv file. Finally, for our bandwidth-challenged readers, I have also posted a PDF of Sandy’s PowerPoint slides. I strongly recommend that you download one of the recordings so you can fully appreciate the wisdom of Sandy’s presentation.

We welcome your feedback. If you’d like to discuss this topic on Twitter, please use the “#activevos” search term…we’ll join you in the discussion there. You can also follow us on Twitter here.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #33: BPMS, IT, business users and the real state of collaboration [77:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (904)
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In a wide-ranging discussion, Dana Gardner and panelists Jim Kobielus, Brad Shimmin, Joe McKendrick, Ron Schmelzer and Tony Baer ponder a cosmic issue: is IT entering a new world by virtual of cloud computing or on its deathbed? With references to smartphones at the opera and to German existential philosphers, this is a discussion of IT you’re not likely to hear anywhere else.

Seriously, this podcast is not one to miss. When we at Active Endpoints decided to become a charter sponsor of this podcast series, the kind of discussion you will hear in this podcast is exactly what we had in mind.

We hope you enjoy it.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #41: IT Renaissance? [57:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2104)
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We are very pleased to include a podcast produced by Peter Schooff of eBizQ in our podcast feed. In this short 6:30 minute podcast, Peter interviews our own Michael Rowley on why a good BPMS (business process management system) needs to include both services and human tasks. When a standards-based way to include people activities in a BPM application is available, developing end-to-end, integrated applications is easier and faster. We believe that every BPMS must deliver both human tasks and machine (or services) integration to be a real solution to the challenge of creating BPM applications.

 

 BPM That Includes Both Services and People: A Talk with Active Endpoints [6:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2207)

Every Wednesday, we have a live webinar in which we introduce the ActiveVOS BPMS (business process management suite) using a fictional company called Classic Cars. You can always sign up for a live webinar, held every Wednesday at noon Eastern time, by clicking on the blue box on the right-hand side of every page on the ActiveVOS website.

By popular request, we recorded a recent webinar and are putting it into the podcast feed for subscribers and other visitors. There are two versions of the file: a smaller .m4v file, perfect for viewing on an iPod and a larger DivX-encoded .avi file in slightly higher resolution.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #31: An Introduction to BPM with the ActiveVOS 6.2 BPMS [76:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1351)
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We are once again pleased to include episode # 40 of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition podcast in our podcast feed. In this episode, Dana and a panel of industry analysts (and one vendor representative from TIBCO) discuss PaaS — or platform as a service.

 

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We are pleased to present the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights podcast with Dana Gardner and a distinguished panel of industry analysts who offer their suggestions to help IT reduce costs during the economic downturn we are experiencing today.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #38: Cutting IT Costs [49:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (442)
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In this podcast episode, I talk with Active Endpoints’ UK partner and T-Impact CEO Keith Stagner about T-Impact’s approach to helping clients achieve rapid ROI via improved applications with SOA-based BPM applications.

I hope you enjoy hearing about how SOA is being used in the UK, what UK customers are looking for in their BPM applications and why T-Impact is succeeding even in these tough economic times.

(And, oh yes, there’s a commercial for ActiveVOS in the podcast. But a) I can be forgiven for doing one since that’s my job and b) it’s in the context of Keith’s discussion of how T-Impact uses ActiveVOS to meet his organization’s strict objectives for client ROI in their SOA projects.)

As always, we’d love to know what you think. Comments here or email to me are more than welcome.

 

 VOSibilities podcast #23: An Interview with T-Impact CEO Keith Stagner [21:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (419)

We are pleased to distribute in our podcast feed the BriefingsDirect Analysts Insight podcast audio and transcript for episode #3, produced and moderated by Dana Gardner.

In this very interesting discussion, Dana, David Linthicum, Tony Baer and Jim Kobielus discuss the impact of the financial meltdown on IT spending in general and on SOA and BI in particular.

I think you will find their discussion to be both relevant and very revealing.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #31 [49:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2613)
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As we announced earlier this week, we are excited to be sponsoring Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights podcast.

As a convenience to our subscribers, Dana has allowed us to post the podcast in our feed. We are also going to post the transcript of each podcast for those who might want to print the transcript and take it along with them when they travel.

We hope you enjoy these podcasts as much as we do.

 

 BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Podcast #30 [30:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (468)
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