Author: karljeffery

It is so easy to get excited about business processes. Reduce your company to a well oiled machine. But unfortunately we’re starting to see the limits of this now. Feeling part of a machine is not great for people’s sense of self worth. People with a low sense of self worth find it harder to…

Modern society is not very good to people’s character – if you define character as what someone has, besides their ego. Ego is how we work in the real world – our interactions, how we place ourselves, how we respond. Character is what’s left – what we see as our purpose on the world and…

Are you the kind of person who finds it hard to work in a large company? You’re happy to work, but you prefer to be given your list of tasks at the beginning of the week, or just be assigned a long term project, rather than minute by minute or hour by hour? You believe…

The business process management sector is very mature – with billions of pounds spent on developing software and on developing services. It has led to big savings in industry and companies becoming very large. But this project is not about business process management. Business process management is about streamlining processes, making sure the right task…

From a software developer’s point of view, here are the process an expert follows to make a decision: PRE DECISION Have data sources including sensors, cameras, surveys, web data, commercial data, market information, company data Have tools to integrate, search, sort, visualise, analyse, present pertinent information, separate facts from probabilities, specific diagnosis tools, tools which…

Exact Target / Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a range of digital marketing automation and analytics software tools, covering e-mail, mobile, social and online marketing. (The company was founded as Exact Target, offering services based on the Salesforce Cloud, and was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5bn in June 2013). It includes tools to build a ‘single…

OrangeScape Technologies, based in Mountain View, California, with offices in Chennai, India, offers low code tools based on Google Apps, also Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and other cloud systems. It categorises its offering as ‘Platform As as Service’. It says that its platforms have been used for hospitality booking management, materials management, loans management,…

  K2 (www.k2.com) is a low code company based in Bellevue, USA (Washington State) with offices in London, Singapore and South Africa. Customers with case studies on its website include Shell (oil and gas), Kimberley Clark (manufacturing), Denton’s (legal), Island Savings (financial services), Sanofi (healthcare), North Yorkshire Council (government). The company says its products can…

I recently interviewed executives from a Palo Alto (US) company called Maana for our sister publication Digital Energy Journal (the full article is here). Maana doesn’t present itself as ‘low code’ but is certainly a useful platform tool which could be used to make ‘Software for Experts’. The main focus is helping companies to search…

There is a market for ‘Business Process Management’ software suites which sounds like a lot like ‘Software for Experts’. The Wikipedia page for Business Process Management has a section on BPM technology  which says that the following a critical components of a BPM suite:   Process engine — a robust platform for modeling and executing process-based…