Posts Tagged ‘Cloud’

Are you stuck in a work rut? Perhaps you are tired of dealing with another pile of paperwork, sifting through tens or hundreds of emails to find that one you need, waiting to hear back from your colleague with that customer information, or not knowing what when your purchase request will be approved. No wonder nearly 20% of time spent online is on social media sites. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterests, and other popular sites became the modern escapes from work that people do from their desk and from their smartphones. worksocial circle The Transformative Power of Worksocial for Business

 
What if work gets social? You will be able to check status updates, upload and share content, approve or reject requests like you would with friends and followers. Except these would be a multi-million dollar sales opportunity you’re monitoring, a global supply chain contract that’s going through rounds of client and legal reviews, or a new data center service request. Furthermore, imagine having the ability to execute and work from your phone while you are at a client meeting, at the supplier’s factory in a foreign country, or at a facility thousands of miles away from your office. More »

Ah, the cloud.  How abused of a term you have become over the past 10 years.  Originally the term “Cloud” evolved from IT network diagrams where engineers would just draw a big cloud shaped bubble to represent a network, whether internal, external, etc.  Now it represents more than just a network diagram, but a new philosophy for the development, management, upgrading, and distribution of software.  Unfortunately “Cloud”  has also become one of the most abused buzz words in enterprise IT, ushering in a stampede of cloud-washing smoke screens by every old legacy software company.

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Clouds can come in many forms, but behind the scenes they embody properties that are unique to modern software delivery techniques, such as:

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If you were to list three modern technologies that you cannot live without, what would they be? For many people, it’s their mobile phone, the Internet, and increasingly, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. If you answered one or all three, you’re not alone.

According to IDC Research, almost half a billion smartphones shipped globally in 2011, a 61.3% growth from the year before. There are over 2 billion Internet users worldwide while over 90% of the US population are wired (Source: Internet World States) to search and access content in the cloud. Lastly, there are over 900 million Facebook users as of last month.

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Computing Professionals in the 1920s

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What are the new technology imperatives in a workplace for process improvement? If you missed the Modern BPM for Process Innovation Webinar, the recording is available on demand. You may also download the slides on slideshare and read a quick recap of the webinar on a blog. Here are the questions and answers from the webinar:

 

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Perhaps the election year has something to do with it. Nevertheless, the US Government and the CIO Office have announced a number of initiatives to usher Federal agencies into the 21st century information age. From starting the National Dialogue on the Federal Mobility Strategy on IdeaScale and announcing the IT Shared Services Strategy, to the US Department of the Interior choosing Google Apps for Government as part of its IT Transformation initiative, Uncle Sam is ready to embrace modern technologies like mobile, social, and cloud.

Modernizing IT infrastructures, systems, and services provides the foundation for other IT transformation projects. Reducing the number of data centers, unifying on a single email system, using cloud-based electronic forms, records, documents, and content management solutions are part of that journey. So is continuous process improvement and automation through business process management (BPM) methodologies and technologies.

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Clay Richardson from Forrester Research is a proponent of tackling and structuring big data with big process. In a recent blog post and in his riveting keynote presentation at Appian World 2012, Richardson discussed the four cornerstones to successfully tackle and implement big process across the enterprise by:

  • Transforming the customer experience with mobile and operational processes
  • Embracing and anticipating chaos with dynamic case management
  • Combining and applying the process context to big data to drive transformation
  • Leveraging cloud to accelerate application delivery and minimize risks
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Clay Richardson from Forrester at Appian World 2012

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A common practice among software developers is “eating their own dog food”; which means using their own software in an effort to understand areas where the biggest improvements are needed. Multiple organizations have taken this notion one step further and make the entire company “drink their own champagne”. These organizations try to become a laboratory where employees are asked to use their software internally, not only to test it before it reaches the hands of the customer, but also to get them involved in the definition of the product road-map.

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