Month: January 2016

All of our discussion here is really about working out how to reduce the costs of providing software for expert / professional users. There are no techologically original ideas here, in that an expert user with unlimited budget can have whatever software they want and always has been able to. There probably are examples of…

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…