I have been looking across the pond for European bloggers that cover BPM and SOA.
As we've said in a couple previous posts, in many ways, European companies seem to be jumping into SOA with both feet, but that is often a result of years of practice in BPM - BPM-driven SOA. Anyway, here are some interesting blogs I found, and let us know if you have some other favorites we should review.
ARIS BPM Blog has a number
of members and a robust European blogger community. The About section reads, “In
line with our motto “We Love BPM”, the official IDS Scheer Weblog regularly
provides the international community with information on BPM and related
topics, such as EA, SOA, Process Intelligence, Six Sigma and Compliance. The
authors are experts from IDS Scheer, non-profit organizations, companies and
universities. We invite the BPM community to actively participate by commenting
on the posts.”
CIO
Magazine UK has several blogs. They include: The Server
Room - that helps keep readers up to date with the latest trends in servers and
virtualization, and the CIO blog written by the CIO of
Newham, a London borough in transition.
Computerworld UK also has a
collection of blogs from practitioners, as well as syndicated analyst commentary. Here are some examples of what you can find there:
Computerworld UK: "The final
front tier of SOA" – is written by Dharmesh Mistry who has supported financial
services organizations with technology and management expertise for over 20
years. Dharmesh is currently the acting CTO of edge IPK, focusing on developing
and launching an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA).
Computerworld UK: "TechSpectic" is described
as “hype busting thoughts from the Editor in Chief of
CIO magazine.
Computerworld UK:
"Test driven" is written by David Evans, the Director
of Methodology at software quality and testing consultancy SQS. The blogs says
that “these are the ruminations of a software quality methodologist, and
friends.”
Computerworld UK: "Forrester
View: Application Development & Programme Management" – “Forrester Research
analysts comment on issues critical to application development and programme
management professionals.”
Computerworld UK: "Burton
Blogs: Executive Advisory" is written to “keep you up to date with the mutually dependent,
relationships that IT and the business have with each other and how to make
changes that utilise each other's progress.”
Enterprising Architecture:
EA Driven BPM is written by Kapil Pant in the IT Toolbox.
Kapil is a Sr. Consultant/Practice Manager of BPM in the UK. The blog is about
“aligning your enterprise roadmap or architecture to execution and montoring
for overall enterprise agility.”
IT
Directions is an eBizQ blog written by Keith
Harrison-Broninski. Keith is the CTO of Role Modellers Ltd, whose “company mission is to
develop understanding and support of collaborative human work processes across
industry, a field that Keith has pioneered with his work on Human Interaction
Management.”
The mwd blog (which we are already quite familiar with and read regularly) covers “IT business alignment and
related things.” Macehiter
Ward-Dutton
is a specialist IT advisory firm which combines industry research and analysis
with tailored consulting services, and is focused exclusively on issues
surrounding IT-business alignment.” UK based. The contributors include Nell
Macehiter, Nell Ward-Dutton, Angela Ashenden, and Bola Rotibi.
Peter
Borner’s Blog – Peter is with the UK division of Microsoft partner Axispoint –
they have 3 other blogs. Peter’s
blog covers BPM.
The Process Performance Blog
is written by Mark McGregor, a UK consultant. It is part of IT-Director.com. It
covers Business Process Management (BPM), Business
Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Blog. Here is a sample post. Are
you really doing BPM?
Singularity blog covers BPM
and brings in relevant pop references to Malcolm Gladwell, James Bond, and Bob
Dylan. Singularity is a provider of
Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow solutions.
Sourcingmag.com –
blogosphere is a UK blog community
with 19 bloggers. You can become a blogger by
going to their site. Sourcingmag.com offers practical advice for IT and business process
outsourcing.