Session Date and Time: Day 2, March 24 15:15 EST (45 min.)
Keywords: BPM, enterprise cloud computing, IT, SaaS, adoption landscape.
Authors: Rick Carnal and Todd Lane, Appregatta Technologies.
Abstract: The movement from traditional on-premises software to cloud-based applications represents a fundamental shift at the enterprise level. The overall adoption of SaaS/cloud technologies has been gaining significant traction over the past few years. This trend, which has been fueled by early wins in key business functions including CRM, ERP, manufacturing/supply chain, and marketing, is helping to form a new business process management (BPM) paradigm that is changing pure-play solutions for the better. The market for BPM is growing rapidly, and IDC forecasts that the BPM market will reach $3 billion in 2013. Pure-play SaaS BPM companies are few and far between, and the broader landscape is changing rapidly as the power vendors maneuver to take advantage of the shift. Amidst the evolving market, customers have legitimate questions about BPM adoption and advances in service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions. What are the main BPM cloud computing benefits? When will (or should) cloud replace, co-exist with, or operate independently from the secure IT infrastructure? While nobody has definitive answers to the many questions surrounding BPM and the shift to the cloud, an understanding of its evolution and observations about the current state of the market can help customers begin to navigate the BPM frontier.
What the audience will learn -
Every enterprise is different, but each faces challenges when it comes to BPM. While a variety of solutions have evolved to address specific BPM needs, Microsoft Excel and Visio remain the most prevalently used BPM applications. This is a direct result of customer frustration with complex on-premise product offerings and their high cost (total cost of ownership and speed to deploy). The pioneers with the most prevalent business visual modeling and BI tools in the world appear to be playing safe: Microsoft has stated that they have no current plans to offer these from the Windows Azure cloud.
Participants will better understand the current BPM and SOA landscape and how the CRM cloud maturity model has validated the cloud computing model. Participants will discover many industry updates beyond current Gartner/Forrester analyses culminating from hundreds of man-hours of research and tenured industry experience from the speaker.
Every organization and corporation will make defining, critical business decisions involving the cloud within the next 18 months. All have BPM-related governance, compliance, infrastructure, and regulatory considerations that will be discussed in this presentation. The speaker will involve the audience in several online polls during the presentation and will allow time for questions during and after the presentation to effectively engage with the audience.
About the author -
Rick Carnal is a principal executive at Appregatta Technologies at its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Appregatta is the leading provider of cloudbased technology solutions and services to enterprise and mid-market companies. Rick is a business process subject matter expert and a certified supply chain analyst. He is a tenured consulting practice leader for ERP, collaboration, rich Internet apps, BPM/A, EA, SOA, ETL/data modeling, network monitoring, and .NET/J2EE/LAMP development markets.
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