Wayne Snell, Senior Director of Marketing | February 22nd, 2010
Next week at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit in London, three Lombardi customers will be on hand to share their BPM success stories. The two-day conference is being held at the Lancaster Hotel from March 1-2, 2010.
Time: Monday, March 1, 14:30 – 15:00 in Westbourne 3
Time: Monday, March 1, 15:25 – 16:05 in Westbourne 1
Time: Tuesday, March 2, 11:50 – 12:30 in Westbourne 1
Additionally, Jim Rudden, our global VP of marketing, will be participating in a Premier Sponsor panel discussion on the main stage. That panel, entitled “Speed Predicting,” is being moderated by Daryl Plummer, Managing VP and Gartner Fellow & Jim Sinur, Research VP, Gartner. The panel format is guaranteed to be unlike any you’ve seen in the past, so you won’t want to miss it.
Time: Monday March 1, 11:30 – 12:00 in Wesbourne 3.
While you are at the conference, come by to meet the Lombardi team as well as our new IBM brethren in the Solution Showcase located in the Nine Kings Suite on the ground floor of the hotel. As an added treat, we will be serving a sampling of Champagne, Chocolate and Strawberries on Monday night.
We hope to see you there!
Wayne Snell, Senior Director of Marketing | April 2nd, 2009
Yesterday, ebizQ.net posted a podcast interview that they recorded with our very own Jim Rudden during the Gartner BPM Summit in San Diego last week.
The five minute podcast, hosted by Peter Schooff, ebizQ’s editor, is entitled “BPM Now More Than Ever: Live Podcast With Lombardi,” and summarizes Jim’s presentation from the conference.
We especially enjoyed seeing the comment Peter made that he “always enjoys the opportunity to record a live podcast with one of the big speakers at the event.”
Jim’s session was definitely one of the top draws during the conference, with nearly 200 people attending.
Peter’s interview with Jim (5:23) Listen (Mp3)
Jim Rudden, Vice President of Global Marketing | February 25th, 2009
Last week, Gartner released the latest update to their BPMS Magic Quadrant. I am happy to tell you that Lombardi has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in the report titled: ”2009 Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites.”
Gartner positions vendors in the magic quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Delivering on both of these axes is the big challenge. Good quote from Rod Favaron – our CEO – on exactly this point: “From my perspective, leaders in this analysis must not only have a vision for BPM – they need to demonstrate success in executing that vision.”
2008 was the best year in Lombardi’s history. In 2009, execution is going to be more important than ever – not just for us. Our customers and partners need BPM now more than ever. We are looking forward to the challenge.
Jim Rudden, Vice President of Global Marketing | August 26th, 2008
For their recent InformationWeek Analytics 2008 Tomorrow’s CIO Survey, the well-known trade publication quizzed 720 corporate managers, including CEOs, CFOs, and COOs, as well as CIOs and VPs of IT-level executives, about the attributes most desirable for future business technology leaders.
IW’s John Soat then posted an excellent write-up of the survey’s findings, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. John writes:
“Whether they know it or not–and most do–companies need an executive leader well versed in both technology and business processes. The CIO position is tailor made to take that role. . .the question is, which CIOs will step up to it?”
This chart (also below) based on the survey’s findings isn’t surprising if you’ve been looking at things from a process point of view as long as we have, but it’s not trivial that respondents noted “Need to manage or optimize business process” as the #1 priority as the CIO continues to strive to become more of a business leader.
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Jim Rudden, Vice President of Global Marketing | May 16th, 2008
Its been a week since SAP’s big BPM announcement. Not exactly an earth-shattering announcement. My summary – at some point in the future (2 years?), SAP-only shops will be able to more easily configure internal SAP application workflows. This is a SAP application workflow band-aid, not a viable BPM offering. I am not alone in this assessment – the reviews have ranged from unimpressed to downright negative.
Honestly, this is no surprise. The big software vendors – I call them Stackers – have been and continue to pursue the promise of BPM half-heartedly. Actually, they have done everything in their power to bury BPM deep in what they view as their real markets. You can’t blame them – BPM ain’t in their DNA. And it is really hard to change your DNA.
SAP wants you to buy applications from them. BPM to them is just some integration and workflow between their applications. Always has and always will be – no matter what the Netweaver BPM roadmap says. Not to get too cheeky, but SAP does not have the best reputation in this sense – see their public spat with Waste Management about non-delivery of promised functionality.
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