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Elastic Cloud? Not so Fast…
2009-08-21 15:04:00 Earlier this week, I attended a very interesting CEO roundtable organized by VMware. Around 40 VMware customers and partners (including Intalio) sat down with Paul Maritz (VMware's CEO) for an hour of discussions about virtualization and cloud computing. Listening to customers, I developed a better understanding of the challenges lying ahead for Private Cloud Computing, and the critical role to be played by Open Source software in this radical transformation of the IT landscape. In a nutshell, the hypervisor (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, etc.) is the next operating system, and it brings elasticity to corporate IT from a technical infrastructure standpoint. Thanks to such elasticity, corporate customers can build private clouds on top of the virtualization infrastructure, leveraging hardware virtualization for multi-tenancy. The challenge in doing so is not so much a technical one, but a business one: licensing elasticity ? or the lack of it. Let me further expla... More About: Fast
Looking for Data on Corporate IT
2009-08-13 19:31:00 Intalio recently sold Intalio|Cloud (the Managed On-Premises version) to two major customers in Japan, and we're expecting a first deal in Singapore sometime in Q4 this year. We're now working on our go-to-market strategy for the U.S. and EMEA, and are developing various marketing materials to support it, using this presentation as baseline. As part of this effort, we need some third-party validated data on corporate IT. Some of it might be found in analyst reports, some in white papers published by vendors, and some could be derived from verifiable anecdotal evidence. Wherever it comes from, we're looking for it and have decided to crowd-source its gathering. If you know the answers to the following questions, or have some time available to look for them, please share your insight with us. Each answer backed-up by proper references will get you a $25 Apple Gift Card or our infinite gratitude (you pick one). Please send answers to Michael Morel, our new Vice President of Marketin... More About: Corporate , Data
When Technology Works
2009-06-30 00:33:00 The problem with being an early adopter of new technologies is that leading edge can quickly turn into bleeding edge. In other words, brand new products are often buggy, and early adopters aren't much different form guinea pigs. Technology enthusiasts like to fancy themselves as explorers of new frontiers, not disposable lab animals. So when new technologies actually work, it's hard not to be excited about them. Tonight, I'd like to share some of this excitement. Since I got my first iPhone on the first day of its release two years ago, I have been trying to use it as a universal remote control, either for my home theater (just because I could), or for my corporate presentations (I give a lot of those these days). I tried various applications, but none of them really worked, until now? Yesterday, I managed to make Keynote Remote work between my new MacBook Pro 13? (the best laptop ever for frequent travelers) and my iPhone 3GS. Here is how it works: you get both your MacBook and ... More About: Works
Mashups and Single Points of Failure
2009-06-25 01:05:00 Mashups are great, but the more components are integrated into a single mashup, the more single points of failure are created along the way. I experienced this recently with the piping of my blog feeds to Twitter. Blogs were written using WordPress, syndicated through FeedBurner (now owned by Google), harvested by TwitterFeed, and re-syndicated to Twitter. Somewhere in the process, delays would be created, one day long for posts on IT|Redux, and over a week long for posts on ghalimi.name. Since I control both the source (my WordPress account) and the target (my Twitter account), there wasn't much need for FeedBurner in the middle, so I recently got rid of it. Let's see if this fixes the problem. More About: Failure , Single , Points , Mashups
Adopting Twitter
2009-06-20 19:45:00 Over the past couple of weeks, I have started to use Twitter to push some updates on Intalio, my traveling, and some elements of my personal life. My Twitter feed is available at @ghalimi, and syndicates feeds for both IT|Redux (professional blog) and ghalimi.name (personal blog). This feed is also displayed on IT|Redux's right column. Moving forward, I will use IT|Redux for longer articles, mainly focused on Cloud Computing.
Tips for the Modern Traveler in Japan
2009-06-15 07:43:00 It's 8pm local time, I just came back from a delicious teppanyaki dinner in Ebisu, and I am sitting on my hotel room's balcony, on the 11th floor of the Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo. From my MacBook Pro's speakers, Gábor Szabó is playing The Sorcerer, and I am enjoying the cool breeze of an early rainy season. It's my 16th trip to Japan , and over the years, I have learned a few things that might be useful to people traveling there for the first time, especially when traveling for business purposes. Best affordable hotel in Tokyo One of the best places to stay in Tokyo is the Sheraton Miyako Hotel Tokyo. At $150 a night, it offers amenities that places twice as expensive cannot match. The hotel greets visitors with a stunning view on an exquisite zen garden, and features one of the best Chinese restaurants in town. It's also very conveniently located for easy access to most of Tokyo's business distrists, and just ¥980 away from Shinagawa station, which is served by the Narita Ex... More About: Tips , Modern
Who Is This Cloud For?
2009-06-09 09:10:00 Following Intalio's presentation in London yesterday, Aditya Tuli wrote a critical yet constructive post commenting on the announcements we made recently. I have to agree with most of Aditya's points, and would like to take advantage of this opportunity to clarify a couple of items. First, Intalio|Cloud is indeed targetted at larger organizations, especially the Managed On-Premises option, mainly because this product was designed in partnership with our larger customers. That being said, Intalio|Cloud is also available to much smaller teams, with the On Demand option. Second, we said very little about Intalio|BPM Community Edition indeed, and I will make sure to cover it in more details today in Helsinki, tomorrow in Brussels, and later this week in Paris and Frankfurt. Furthermore, we remain fully committed to our community, and have just put the final touches on Intalio|BPM Developer Edition, which will be formally released on June 16. Aditya, many thanks for your feedback and s...
First Cloud Customers
2009-06-08 23:41:00 We just signed our first two Intalio|Cloud Managed On-Premises customers. More soon? More About: Customers
Process Table
2009-06-01 02:30:00 We just released a screencast showing how to model and execute a process from a spreadsheet! This is what we call a Process Table , and it's part of the new release of Intalio|CRM to be available on June 2nd. Congratulations to Antoine and his team for this amazing piece of work, direct result of our Dogfood Project, and first creation of what will soon be called Intalio Labs.
Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1 Mark I
2009-05-28 10:07:00 As many of my readers know, I love computers. At any given point in time I use a couple of desktops and three or four laptops. But I have a real fascination for larger systems, which is why I studied parallel computing in graduate school. Today, I fulfilled one my dreams: building a really large machine. We just published some more details about the Intalio|Cloud Appliance Model C1 Mark I, including a full list of components, and detailed specifications. This is a superlative computer in every possible way, with the most cutting edge hardware and software money can buy. Serial Number 00000001 is standing proud in our new data-center (the same as Facebook's), waiting for us to put some serious load onto it (our on-demand offering is currently hosted on Amazon EC2). Here is what the Mark I gives you: Standard 19? Rack 16 Compute Blades 16 Storage Blades 32 Quad Core Intel Xeon X5570 2.93GHz CPUs 128 CPU Cores 2.3TB 1333MHz PC3-10600 DDR3 Memory 24.5TB Solid Stage Drive Database Sto...
You Got It!
2009-05-27 23:53:00 When announcing a new product or a new strategy, some things usually get lost in translation, either because you did not get a chance to personally brief the journalist or analyst who wrote a piece on your announcement, or because the story just wasn't solid enough. To my surprise, none of that happened with the launch of Intalio|BPM, Intalio|CRM, and Intalio|Cloud last week. While we released four new products (including a hardware appliance) and laid out a fairly complex story, everybody got it, down to the most subtle details of our business model (managed on-premises). Some of the best articles came from Brenon Daly, James Taylor, and Phil Wainewright. It looks like we hit a chord?
Frequently Asked Questions
2009-05-26 20:17:00 Everything you've ever wanted to know about Intalio and never dared to ask. More About: Questions
Intalio|Cloud Press Conference Webcast
2009-05-23 10:44:00 The webcast of last Tuesday's event is now online. More About: Press , Press Conference , Cloud , Conference , Webcast
Intalio Foundation
2009-05-21 09:40:00 Over the years, Intalio has made numerous contributions to the developers community, through the creation of many Open Source projects, and the donation of code bases worth millions of dollars. After ten years, we feel that time has come for us to support other communities as well, and we are creating the Intalio Foundation to support this effort. As a first project, the Intalio Foundation will make our business applications available to communities of non-profit organizers, artists, and solo entrepreneurs. The Foundation's initial endowment will be one free user account for every ten accounts of Intalio|BPM and Intalio|CRM On-Demand sold between June 1st 2009 and May 30th 2010, with an initial grant of 100 seats worth over $100,000. If your organization qualifies for such a grant, or you know an organization that does, please send your application to foundation@intalio.com.
Utility Based Pricing for Private Cloud Computing
2009-05-20 21:49:00 We just published our utility-based pricing for private cloud computing. More About: Computing , Private , Utility , Cloud , Cloud Computing
Rocking and Rolling
2009-05-19 22:07:00 We did it! Today, Intalio successfully released Intalio|BPM Business Edition, Intalio|CRM, Intalio|Cloud, and the Intalio|Cloud Appliance, plus a working version of the ultra-cool Process Table built for the Dogfood Project, powered by a preview release of the brand-new Intalio|BPM Developer Edition and fully integrated with Intalio|CRM. Registrations for Intalio|BPM and Intalio|CRM On-Demand are now open, and everything seems to be working flawlessly. Of course, we're still in Beta for both products, so bugs are to be expected, but at least we're live. We also announced two acquisitions: ProcessSquare in Germany (we never formally announced it until now) and CodeGlide in Argentina. A short version of our big story is available on this press release, and the full story is on the updated Intalio website. Rock on! More About: Rolling
Mad Rush
2009-05-18 13:39:00 Tomorrow, Intalio will release four new products, two of which are available on-demand, and one is made of atoms rather than bits. We will also announce the closing of another acquisition that is taking the company to a whole new level. As a result, we had to make significant changes to our website, move to a much larger data-center, implement native multi-tenancy in many parts of our product stack, integrate our online applications with our marketing automation, salesforce automation, billing, and accounting systems, all while putting the final touch on Intalio|BPM 6.0. In other words, we've been pretty busy. If you want to know more about what's going on at Intalio, check our website tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10am PDT, or join us for the launch party. More About: Rush
Datacenter
2009-05-06 20:31:00 While Facebook is moving out of Palo Alto downtown, Intalio|Cloud is moving into the same datacenter used by Facebook. We just received our first blade servers from HP this morning, and are working around the clock for the May 19 launch. If you want to know what this is all about, join us for the launch party.
MacBook Pro 17″
2009-04-12 01:07:00 The new MacBook Pro 17? is awesome! More About: Macbook , Macbook Pro
Weather Forecast
2009-04-12 01:04:00 On May 19, 2009, Intalio will change the forecast on cloud computing. Meet us at the Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley at 10AM PST. Please RSVP. More About: Weather , Weather forecast , Forecast
New Additions to the Families
2009-04-01 15:30:00 Intalio is days away from closing an acquisition that will be quite a game changer. While we were working on this deal, the quarter shaped up pretty well from a bookings standpoint, and we decided to raise our target by 15% two months into it. Today, I am pleased to report that we not only made our original target, but we also exceeded our revised target by another 3%. Not bad in such challenging economic times? In the meantime, another family got a new addition yesterday: Tao Aidan Chang Ghalimi made his way out to the world, just in time to close this quarter in style. Exciting times? More About: Families
March Haiku
2009-03-10 10:44:00 Funds are being raised Acquisitions are being closed Bright, chilly morning More About: Haiku , March
Stoicism Redux
2009-02-18 23:24:00 Warning: what follows contains materials of philosophical nature that might offend religious readers. Such is not my intention, but reader care is advised. Also, the reason why such an article was published on a blog usually covering enterprise software and personal productivity is that it relates to a book that might be of interest to some readers of David Allen?s Getting Things Done, which itself was covered repeatedly on these pages. Subsequent writings on the subject will take place at ghalimi.name, which is a more appropriate venue for such topics. Once in a while, one comes across an idea so profound that it has the power to change one?s life. So was the case for me yesterday on my way to Columbus, OH. Feeling like Christopher Columbus (re)discovering the Americas, I re-discovered the ancient Stoic philosophy through the reading of William B Irvine?s A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, thanks to a program I recently listened to on KPFA. I had never read th...
Introducing the Business Operating Platform
2009-02-16 21:09:00 When I started Intalio ten years ago, I wanted to build a Transactional Workflow System. Intalio's CTO Assaf Arkin did not like the term ?workflow,? which he felt carried too much legacy, hence we re-branded our product a Business Process Management System (BPMS). That was back in June 2000. Since then, the term BPM has been largely over-exposed, and failed to describe the completeness of our vision. Later on, Gartner came up with the concept of a Business Process Platform , and we adopted it, although quite reluctantly. More recently, Cordys started talking about a Business Operations Platform, and this terminology really resonated with me. To a large extent, what we're building is akin to a Business Operating System, but this term has been used to describe many different things (Cf. Wikipedia), and the word ?System? fails to describe a platform that could be used across organizations' boundaries (for what used to be called B2B). Therefore, we shall call our product a Business Op...
Data Meet Process
2009-02-13 18:00:00 Intalio is currently experiencing very rapid growth in emerging markets, especially in Latin America. Yesterday, our Spanish-speaking webinar attracted 79 participants, the highest turnout to date. In this particular market, we're facing an interesting competitor: Aura Portal. We come across them more and more often in competitive situations, and I've been trying to understand why so many companies in Latin America were attracted to their proprietary product, which is a blend of BPM, ECM, Portal, and? CRM. After some more noodling, I think I finally came up with the answer: by integrating CRM into the mix, Aura Portal is blending Process and Data , which is the secret for a perfect recipe. It's not the first time I write about this, but I'm now ready to act upon it. Whether analyst firms like it or not, BPM is not a business application, it's a business platform, and as such, it must support the development of enterprise applications in a process oriented way. For most new appli... More About: Meet
Apache ODE is Reaching Critical Mass
2009-02-13 15:01:00 The Apache ODE project lead by Intalio is reaching critical mass, more recently with its integration by WSO2. While many more vendors are considering using Apache ODE for adding BPEL support to their products, others do not seem too happy about this momentum, among them Alex Neihaus from Active Endpoints, who is claiming that WSO2's Carbon BPM isn't a product. I'm not a big fan of vendor bashing, and I certainly do not want to take any part in this silly fight, but I'm happy to answer Alex's list of 10 reasons that make Apache ODE (or WSO2 Business Process Server, same codebase) not a BPM product. If you want BPM based on the best BPEL engine around (ODE), Intalio has it in store, and we're open for business? 10. No worklist support Intalio's Tempo project does that, and it's available under the Eclipse Public License. It's also part of Intalio|Server, and it now includes Apache Jackrabitt (using Apache Sling) for document management. And if you want something more lightwei... More About: Mass , Critical
Intalio Developer Edition Coming Soon
2009-02-13 13:27:00 Sometime this quarter, Intalio will release two brand new editions for our open source Business Process Platform, the Business Edition and the Developer Edition. The former is the result of our acquisition of Process Square (Germany), while the later originated from an idea proposed by Matthieu Riou, one of the lead developers for Apache ODE, a project lead by Intalio. Here are more details about it. Intalio|BPP Developer Edition turns the BPM picture upside down. Instead of adopting a process-centric view of the world, it promotes a code-centric approach, and uses the BPEL engine as a mere utility for executing long-running transactions, which can be invoked from any piece of code, written in virtually any language. Much like a relational database can be used from any programming language through a database driver to store and retrieve information, the process engine can be used from any programming language through a process driver to orchestrate services and assign workflow tasks...
More on the Task Delegation Process
More articles from this author:2009-02-12 21:05:00 Yesterday, I introduced the task delegation process as one of the process patterns I found particularly interesting. It turns out that I am not the only one, and a Dogfood team has been formed around it, with Robert (Vice President of Business Development) and Madhav (Sales Engineer). For them to be successful, they'll need some more detailed requirements, which I am happy to provide today. The scenario is pretty simple: a task is assigned by one user (Task Owner) to one or more users (Task Delegates). When the task is assigned by the Owner, each Delegate receives notification about it, and is presented with two options, Completed or Deny. The task is considered completed once all Delegates have either completed or denied it. When more than one Delegates are presented with the task, the participation of every Delegates is expected, which means that the work supposed to be performed by a Delegate who would deny the task will have to be performed by someone else. Should a task be den... More About: Process 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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