Theo Priestley
Theo Priestley
Theo Priestley is Vice President and Chief Evangelist at Software AG, responsible for enabling the marketing and voice of the industry's leading Business Process, Big Data/ In-Memory/ Complex Event Processing, Integration and Transaction suite of platforms. Theo writes for several technology and business related sites including his own successful blog IT Redux. When he isn't evangelizing he's playing videogames, collecting comics and takes the odd photo now and then. Theo was previously an independent industry analyst and successful enterprise transformation consultant.
Will the need for speed in analytics cause you to crash and burn ?
There has been a shift taking place in analytics for years now. Where before data was collated, catalogued and mined today it's reacted upon...
TIBCO and SoftwareAG square off in recent CEP acquisitions
The Complex Event Processing and Real-Time space is hot property and now it's gone off the scale. Both TIBCO and SoftwareAG have announced acquisitions...
Don’t waste your time documenting processes, just automate them
The BPM world is a divided one with many camps. We have methodology on one side and software on the other. But even the...
PegaWorld 2013 Day 2: Keynote highlights
It's Day 2 of the PegaWorld conference and it kicked off with KC Wu from Cisco Systems stating that they are moving from being...
Pegaworld 2013: What is Stage Based Case Management in Pega 7 ?
One of the items from the keynote yesterday was the introduction to what Pega is referring to as Stage-Based Case Management. As part of...
Customer loyalty is disappearing as fast as the Fortune 500
There have been numerous quotes about the fate of Fortune 500 companies and their disappearing lifespan. In fact, Peggy Noonan wrote an article on...
PegaWorld 2013: Keynote highlights
PegaWorld has kicked off and if you're following the Twitter hashtag #PegaWorld you'll already have seen a lot of buzz being generated from this...
Big Data and Analytics: Hero or Villain ?
As the NSA PRISM debacle continues to unfold and spreads across continents it's probably good to stop and think about the technology and philosophy...
BonitaBPM: where the open source rubber hits the BPM road
"We are the best funded BPM startup on the market today" ~ a bold statement from Mac McConnell from Bonitasoft today as they unveiled...
SoftwareAG Process Forum: nice legs, shame about the face
SoftwareAG held it's Process Driven Forum today, dubbed as their "biggest annual event in the process management calendar". Apart from the plethora of free...
Big Data: moving from an ocean to stream culture will hurt analytics
So the fabled Mary Meeker powerpoint tome hit the internet at the D11 conference this week and if you have the patience to wade...
The shifting sands of BPM expectations: the business outcome vs. the sales pitch
Over the years a constant theme is that the ROI of a BPMS implementation or BPM approach is one of the trickiest to pin...
How Social Media is rewriting the history books
News of Whitney Houston's death rocked the World, but it wasn't written by an Associated Press journalist. The assassination of Osama Bin Laden hit...
Cloudy with a chance of integration: the great iPaaS goldrush has begun
I was recently with a client who is looking for a new BPM solution and they have a very positive outlook towards Cloud. They...
Ubiquity can kill a brand as quickly as it can make one
I stepped off the train in London this morning and it struck me how many genuine and knock-off Barbour quilted jackets were among the...
BYOD and MAM gets a new one-click deployment strategy boost
One of the main issues with a BYOD policy, including device and application management, is the burden on IT to secure and deploy enterprise...
Don’t think like the customer, get them to think like you
Predictive analytics is big business now. Hand in hand with Big Data they represent one of the only ways to get to know your...
Building a case for Case Management with the right customer process
Your processes are in a mess. You have no idea how much work actually comes into the organization. You want to invest in a...
What goes around comes around part 2: Is standardization still a valid strategy ?
In a recent post on IT Redux, What goes around comes around, I wrote about the swing between the need for process automation and...
Big Data and Integration unlock real-time performance and break down silos
Big Data and real-time, predictive analytics present companies with the unparalleled ability to understand consumer behavior and ever-shifting market trends at a relentless pace...