Thursday, January 26, 2006

Five Reasons to Invest in Process Management

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Analysis: Five Reasons to Invest in Process Management: "BPM is both a management philosophy and a software tool. As a management philosophy, it calls for organizations to document, analyze and measure their business activities not in terms of discrete functions such as marketing, sales, manufacturing and customer service but in terms of end-to-end business processes that cross functional boundaries."

Very precise article by Bruce Silver - he does a great job of capturing the essence of BPM solutions and articulating the benefits in simple, yet powerful terms.

CIOs strive to improve business processes | InfoWorld | News | 2006-01-23 | By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service

While the top business priority is improving business processes, top technology priority is business intelligence applications.

Although I can appreciate how business intelligence applications may help in improving business processes, I am kind of surprised that BPM suites do not get a mention in this survey - or maybe I am missing something here. Would appreciate any comments from readers who have access to the full survey.

Survey: CIOs strive to improve business processes | InfoWorld | News | 2006-01-23 | By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service: "A recent survey of global chief information officers (CIOs) found that using IT to make improvements to a company's business processes is the top priority for them in 2006, according to Gartner Inc."

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Business Standard - Serious Developer - Profile of Mr. Diwakar Nigam

Business Standard is profiling some of the luminaries of the Indian IT industry. This one features Mr. Diwakar Nigam - often regarded as the original software product leader in India. While most other Indian IT companies focused on delivering IT services, Diwakar carried the torch in terms of building his own intellectual property and delivering products and solutions that were truly "Made in India".

ICE World

Monday, January 09, 2006

Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki: The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs

Let the Good Times Roll by Guy Kawasaki: The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs: "Blogger. n. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do."

Newgen Software helps SEC, Philippines improve access to company information

Newgen Software - India's leading provider of Business Process Management and Document Management solutions recently assisted Philippines' Securities and Exchange Commission launch an Internet-based service that aims to ease and hasten access to information on companies.

This is just one in a long string of successes that New Delhi based Newgen Software Technologies has achieved in the last few years after it started leveraging its leadership position in BPM and EDMS in the Indian market. Today Newgen is perhaps the leading provider of such solutions in much of Asia, Middle East, even Africa.

Companies like Newgen have a lot to offer to Enterprise and Government customers in Asia - their focus on end-to-end solution delivery, leverage of their own IPR (intellectual property rights), offshore resource base and pricing, understanding of application requirements attained over almost 15 years of experience in these markets give them an edge over US based majors in these areas.

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