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BPM—Changing how you do business – ETM Podcast Roundtable

Malcolm Ross — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:35:27 +0000

I had another chance to speak with Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) in a roundtable podcast hosted by Dana Gardner from Interarbor Solutions and a couple other BPM vendors. Topics in this roundtable discussion included different perspectives on current and future trends in Business Process Management, the evolving role of IT over the next decade, and modern day SOA best practices.

As usual, ETM does a great job selecting topics that are meaningful to today’s IT professionals and gathering insights from experts across the industry. You can click on the podcast link and register to download and listen to this informative roundtable discussion.

Malcolm Ross

Director Product Management

IT/Business – Shared Purpose – Podcast with ETM

Malcolm Ross — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:20:30 +0000

I recently had the opportunity to sit down in a podcast with Ali Klaver, Managing Editor of Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) to discuss the growth of BPM inside corporations, common benefits customers are realizing with BPM and how BPM is increasing the collaboration between IT and business.

We certainly live in exciting times in the BPM industry. We have seen dramatic consolidation in the industry as well as dramatic growth in adoption of BPM platforms. If you are an IT professional, and not up-to-speed yet on BPM, I encourage you to listen to the podcast and start your research in how your role will be changing over the next several years. The future is all about alignment of IT/Business for a common “Shared Purpose”, agile development, SaaS and Cloud offerings, and using a common tool to jointly model and manage your enterprise processes and applications.

To listen to this podcast, follow the link to the ETM website and register. ETM additionally offers a variety of other great resources to learn about trends in the IT and BPM industry.

Malcolm Ross, Director Product Management, Appian

CFO King in 2009..

Malcolm Ross — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:44:33 +0000

We’ve all seen the recent changes in the market and the mad rush by many companies to increase cash levels to prepare to weather the impending financial storm. At the helm of many companies as they enter this storm is the CFO. Often having the keenest eye for managing cash, the CFO is being relied upon to make important strategic business decisions and prove financial viability to shareholders. The clearest place to start though for CFO’s is their own backyard, improving financial operations around invoicing, cash collections, dispute management, and financial exceptions.

Appian will be promoting the many successes we have had in helping financial departments improve process performance and increase cash collections. I recently participated in a podcast with Peter Schooff of ebizQ discussing some of the reasons CFO’s need to pay attention to BPM technologies and some of the successes Appian has had in helping organizations improve financial processes.

Additionally, We’ll be hosting a 1 hour event on February 19th discussing the benefits of BPM for financial operations along with a customer testomonial on their implementation of Appian BPM for a key financial process.

Hope to see you there,

Malcolm Ross

Director Product Management