Author: karljeffery

India has a very interesting initiative to develop ‘smart cities’ with $15bn funding released.   The core elements are Adequate water supply; Assured electricity supply; Sanitation, including solid waste management; Efficient urban mobility and public transport; Affordable housing (especially for the poor); Robust IT connectivity and digitization; Good governance (especially e-governance and citizen participation); Sustainable…

For many people, ‘Enterprise Resource Planning’ software is the perfect ‘software for domain experts’ – since it can be used to plan and manage a wide variety of activities. The limitation is activities which are not process based and require expert judgement. Ie, activities which need more than “collecting, storing, managing and interpreting data”. An…

Here are some ideas from an IBM 2014 White Paper “Employing integrated operations for water resources management“. Water management is a vast policy area, including managing (drinking) water quality, avoiding floods, managing underlying water infrastructure, managing overall water supply and demand, and managing the workforce which does all of the work. There may be emergency…

Forrester has published a report “BPM Platforms for Digital Business” which covers many of our ‘Software for Domain Experts’ themes – you can download it here (registration required).   Forrester thinks Pegasystems, Appian and IBM are best, followed by Software AG, Oracle, Newgen Software, OpenText, Bizagi, K2 and DST Systems, followed by Red Hat and…

One of the challenges of setting up a new business for expert users is finding a market which is the right size and the right level of specialism, said Aristos Doxiadis of OpenFund When setting up a start-up in the ‘software for domain experts’ space, one challenge is targeting the right size market, said Aristos…

There are much better ways to build software which can make a useful contribution to experts’ lives, said Roger Schank, CEO of Socratic Arts. One way is to start with story telling There are much better ways to build software which can make a useful contribution to experts’ lives, said Roger Schank, CEO of Socratic…

The advent of ‘low code’ technology could be an ‘inflexion point’ – a point of major change – in the whole universe of software, said George Karaplis, senior associate with IG Icon Investments Perhaps we are under-estimating the impact which ‘low code’ technology could have on the software industry, said George Karaplis, senior associate with…

The introduction of low code tools could massively change the financial proposition of building and maintaining software, said Dimitris Lyras, director of shipping company Lyras Shipping and software company Ulysses Systems The introduction of low code tools could make a massive change in the way software is built, said Dimitris Lyras, director of shipping company…

  Our first Software for Domain Experts conference in Athens, Greece, on October 29 explored a better way to develop software for domain experts, and how the business models could work Download the full report here Could it be possible to build much better software for domain experts – and could there be many business…

“Business process management” is a mature subject – and I’ve been reading perhaps the best book on it, “Business Process Management” by John Jeston and Johan Nelis, A few observations – BPM has been continually evolving over decades, since the 1900s or earlier. One underlying philosophy does seem to be to take expert decison making…