Liferay Recognized by Gartner
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Liferay Recognized as Social Context Provider for Enterprises
By Bryan Cheung, On 11/19/08 12:02 AM
Tags:
gartner, social software
In a recent blog,
Ross Dawson, CEO of Advanced Human Technologies, notes Liferay is
identified by Gartner as a viable solution for bringing social
computing into the enterprise. Ross also shares several key
observations made by David Cearley at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney:
- Social
context - such as reviews, ratings, and feedback - can deliver high
value. The gestation period has been from the beginning of this decade,
but we are reaching an inflexion point and are moving into a phase of
accelerated development.
- This will impact the enterprise as
customers and stakeholders are involved, meaning there isn't a choice
as to whether you're involved. It also can be applied inside the
enterprise.
- Company websites will increasingly have social
elements. Competitors will engage in social networks, and there is the
potential for first-mover advantage.
- We are at the beginning of
a 5-10 year transition. Any digital immigrant that does not fully
assimilate will experience significant personal and career challenges.
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Intalio plans to speed adoption of its business process management
suite with an open-source-like license, increasing the availability of
process modeling and development skills and moving the software to
mainstream users.
Event
On 12 December 2006, Intalio announced
that Intalio/BPMS Community Edition will be released under the Mozilla
Public License (MPL), amended with an attribution provision. The
amended MPL allows others to use, share and improve the software but
limits the ability of commercial competitors to redistribute modified
versions. Intalio/BPMS Community Edition uses existing open-source
technologies, such as MySQL and JBoss, and includes new capabilities
developed by Intalio. It has fewer features than Intalio's Enterprise
Edition.
Analysis
Increasingly, businesses find open-source
software to be a viable way to encourage the adoption of new
technologies. For a tiny company like Intalio, this channel is more
effective than the company Web site at raising awareness and promoting
use of its software. Intalio's new zero-cost, publicly available
business process management suite (BPMS) is credible, meeting Gartner's
minimum BPMS feature set.
Prior to this announcement, there was not
a credible open-source BPMS. Users wanting support for business process
management (BPM) initiatives would have to rely on commercial BPMS
vendors. As the technology matured — and market acceptance increased —
prices climbed, making it difficult for novices to get hands-on
experience in requisite BPM technology skills. Intalio offered its
BPMS/Community Edition at no cost, but the company lacked a
distribution channel and effective marketing. Its decision to eschew
the more traditional, expensive route of using a direct sales force and
instead adopt a license-based approach to the open-source community
demonstrates an aggressive effort to seed the market and competitively
position the company, with the opportunity to sell upgrades to its full
Enterprise Edition.
This move is Intalio's latest attempt to
create a more profitable business model. However, success hinges on
Intalio's ability to catalyze and sustain an open-source user community
that broadly upgrades to its Enterprise Edition. Other vendors (such as
SugarCRM, Pentaho and Zimbra) use open-source-like licenses in a
similar way. Their licenses encourage use, partnerships and user
improvements. However, a controversial attribution requirement,
submitted for approval to the Open Source Initiative in November 2006,
makes it harder for competitors to redistribute modified versions.
Usage of this product by a large number of
people will increase the availability of individuals skilled in
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) modeling, development and
deployment. This announcement will put some short-term pricing pressure
on commercial vendors and force them to further differentiate,
especially in ease of use for business users as well as IT
professionals. However, users who upgrade to Intalio's Enterprise
Edition may find that it is no less expensive than alternative
commercial offerings.
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The IT vs. Business Strategy
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By Jonathan Crow
We've been here at the Gartner ITXpo
Emerging Trends conference in Las Vegas this week. The show has been
very well attended and exceeded my expectations. But, I wanted to take
a moment out of our time pitching to attendees to talk about some of
the conversations that are being had here.
First off, in one session Andy Kyte talked about why leaders place IT
Strategy before Business Strategy. This is a conversation near and dear
to to our hearts. What we have been preaching is better collaboration
between the business and IT groups. And the fact is that we provide the
tools to facilitate that collaboration - a single tool that can be used
by both to build and deploy processes.
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