Salesforce.com just added a powerful new tool to its Force.com development platform, a Visual Process Manager:
“The Visual Process Manager brings the power of Cloud Computing to Business Process Apps. Now you can visually draw any business process and instantly deploy it in the cloud with no code, no software and no infrastructure. The Visual Process Manager helps companies easily automate specific business process like call center scripting, sales quotes, and new employee on boarding.”
According to a post on TechCrunch:
“The technology powering the Visual Process Manager is based on technology acquired from Informavores, call scripting startup Salesforce bought last year.
The Manager has several different components. The Process Designer essentially helps businesses more >>
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Posted by brenda michelson at 2:56 pm in Blog, PaaS, SaaS, business capability offering, business process management, business process services, enterprise architecture, enterprise integration, services architecture | Permalink
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As I mentioned on Tuesday, I’m dedicating 100-days worth of research sessions to explore “enterprise cloud computing considerations”. My first topic is adoption trends:
- What are organizations doing, or planning to do, with cloud computing?
- What types of cloud computing environments are being used, considered and/or ignored?
- What industries are leading and lagging adoption?
- What use cases are being fulfilled, in part or in full, by cloud computing offerings?
- What are the major drivers and expectations?
To get started, I’m surveying the cloud computing surveys. Certainly, I expect to see security noted as a big concern, and operating expense versus capital outlay as a driver. In fact, I’ll cover each of those points in later days, as business risk and economic considerations, respectively. What I’m looking for in my survey of the surveys are observations, trends and even predictions, beyond the headlines.
[Written hours later] Admittedly, one thing I didn’t factor in was the time consuming survey weeding process. I’ve narrowed the body of work by date, source and depth of available information. As a result, I’ll be reviewing the following surveys/papers:
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To date, I have applied a wide lens to my cloud watching to get a good feel for the entire space. As a result, I published my "cloud-o-gram" and numerous posts on developments, perspectives and conversations that caught my attention.
For the start of 2010, specifically the next 100 days, I’m going to narrow my cloud watching lens to enterprise cloud computing considerations. My plan is to apply 2 – 5 research sessions to each enterprise consideration and publish my findings along the way, via elemental cloud computing cloud watch entries and blog posts.
At the end of my list, or 100-days, whichever comes first, I’ll summarize my findings in a research report.
Reviewing my current calendar, the 100th research day is May 21. Like all good (former) developers, I’ve buffered with Saturday mornings.
In additional to my standard categories and tagging schemes, I’ll use the “100-days” category and “enterprise considerations” tag.
My starting list of enterprise cloud computing considerations follows. more >>
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Forgoing the hyperbole of cloud computing predictions – sensational outages to a cloud-in-every-pocket – I want to start 2010 discussing the enduring aspects of cloud computing on enterprise business-technology. Regardless of the final manifestation of cloud computing, and the tally of deployments, successes and failures, I believe cloud computing will influence the expectations and practice of enterprise business-technology throughout the decade.
I have identified five enduring aspects from a practitioner perspective. Certainly, there are enduring aspects on the provider side as well, such as advances from Infrastructure 2.0 and disruptions created by new economic and pricing models. However, I will leave that list for provider-side specialists.
The first three enduring aspects focus on the expectations from business-technology organizations.
1. Resource Optimization – Cloud computing has raised Executive awareness to the disproportion of installed versus utilized computing capacity, along with the requisite expenses of space, power, software licenses and support personnel.
If they have not already, Executives will mandate infrastructure ecology initiatives, starting with the consolidation and pooling of compute and data resources, and progressing to software execution efficiency.
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Cross posted from elemental links. Commentary on Event Processing and Cloud Computing about midway through the post. Personally, I see a big tie (opportunity) at the intersection. I’ll share more on that another time. Original post follows.
Session Abstract: Roy Schulte and Dr. Chandy released a new book on Event Processing in October 2009, aimed at business and system analysts, architects, application managers, CIOs, and technically-oriented business managers. This session will highlight the key points of the book and explain why and how mainstream IT departments will ramp their use of event processing up during the next ten years.
Dr. Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He has received numerous awards including the CMG Michelson Award, the IEEE Kobayashi award, and the Babbage Award.
W. Roy Schulte is Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. He was the lead author of the 1996 Gartner report that introduced the term SOA to the industry. Mr. Schulte originated the research in the field of message brokers, coined the term business activity monitoring (BAM), and wrote the first analyst reports on the zero-latency enterprise and the enterprise service bus (ESB).
Yesterday, Roy did a rapid-fire session on Event Processing. more >>
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Session Abstract: Customers, prospects, and partners use the Web to connect to enterprise applications at an increasing rate, underscoring the need for high developer productivity that achieves superior time-to-market relative to rivals. Cloud computing provides a powerful combination of value and cost drivers, and a growing number of Web-facing enterprise applications will find a home there, heralding a new era in enterprise Web development and execution.
Key Issues:
- What’s driving the convergence of Web and cloud AD, and what does the market offer today?
- How will future enterprise-developed solutions be architected, and how will the software development life cycle evolve?
- How should this be factored into near-term AD decisions on development environments, tools, methodologies and staff/skill planning?
Eric opens: By 2014, about a 1/3 of new web applications will be developed on platforms in the cloud. Platform that is horizontally scalable, designed for multi-tenancy.
Drivers of this enterprise shift: developer productivity, time to market, cost of ownership. more >>
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