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.
Making predictions beyond real-time analytics
Recently it was announced that a collaboration between Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology created software that predicts future events using a combination...
You are what you Tweet: Why recruitment now peers into your social media history
Once again, the pitfalls of using social media rears it's head and someone pays the price. This time it's not an internal department falling asleep...
What LinkedIn’s acquisition of Pulse means for content marketing and enterprise networks
LinkedIn confirmed it's acquisition of the news reader app Pulse this week, a deal valued at approximately $90 million, 90% in the form of...
How will you measure up to a Quantified Enterprise ?
In September I wrote an article about The Social Business Equation. In it I explained how trust and transparency will likely be the new...
Big Data begs you to ask bigger questions of it
Organizations are collecting more and more data every single minute of every day. It's no secret that Facebook, for example, processes 2.5 billion pieces...
Who really owns the LinkedIn Group you belong to ?
LinkedIn Groups was once a haven for valued discussion and a healthy way for people to have an opinion and post their own voice...
Business rule complexity will constrain your process agility
Rules are everywhere. Literally. You can observe them in everyday life all around you whether you're in the office or not. I see people standing...
Why do companies find it so hard to get social media right ?
In May 2003 LinkedIn was launched. In March of 2006, Jack Dorsey famously sent the first Twitter message into the electronic ether. 2 years...
BPM Maturity Models – you’ll grow old trying to get ahead of the curve
Do you remember when you were young ? Did someone give you an Adulthood Maturity Model and told you to slavishly work your way...
BPMS Selection – A fool with a tool is still a fool
How do you evaluate a BPM product ? There's lots of various critera to choose from in an attempt to assess just how good...
Enterprise Apps vs. Enterprise Platforms – Which will win ?
The IT world is a dichotomy. On one hand we have our peers and educators telling us that to learn to code creates a foundation...
Stone tablet reveals ancient first attempt at a Magic Quadrant report
Was Moses the Godfather of Gartner ? Archaeologists have uncovered evidence pointing to a lesser known community of analysts dating as far back as 150BC.…
Why try to innovate when you can buy to innovate ?
There's a bit of a trend going on with the legacy vendors right now. Before, they burned through R&D budgets on a very risk...
If you don’t embrace mobile your business will remain forever stuck
Here are some interesting numbers from a variety of sources. 70% of all mobile searches result in action within 1 hour. 70% of online searches...
Why playing SimCity 5 teaches us about managing Big Data
Electronic Arts have just released their latest incarnation to the beloved SimCity franchise; SimCity5. "What exactly has this got to do with Big Data ?"...
Are we that afraid of the customer to create a paperless society ?
What happened when Google decided to kill off Google Reader without asking us ? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The networked world made a sort of...
Surf’s up: Forrester’s BPMS Wave for 2013 is out
Forrester have just released their latest Wave report for BPM Suites today. It's another staple diet of much the same from Pegasystems, IBM and Appian...
Why is the poor employee an afterthought in the process ?
Living in a world where customer experience is the ultimate goal I sometimes wonder whether organizations lose a bit of internal focus and forget...
Bonitasoft’s Mac McConnell reveals his thoughts on BPM for 2013 and beyond
In 2010 I interviewed Bonitasoft CEO Miguel Valdes Faura and with all the activity in the industry right now I think it's time to...
How Mobile App Management can help avoid a BYOD headache
In a recent study by Apperian Inc. over 50% of employees have access to two or more mobile devices, such as a smartphone and...