Bringing your Business Process to your Business Applications
will we see you at Camunda Local in San Francisco?
Many of the applications we use today were fundamentally designed around people maintaining data in a system of record. If we’re lucky, we’ll also have some good reporting capabilities against that data. If we’re lucky. Or if we put in the hard work to make it so.
There’s rarely any notion of process in these business applications. When there is, it is usually only in the form of chevrons or stages, or isn’t configurable nor something that can evolve with your business. I can’t help but ask why?
Let me tell you, if your business matters, your process matters. You shouldn’t have to work with systems that don’t treat process orchestration as a first class capability. And yet, most of our software today doesn’t do this. We can show you how to incorporate process into the systems that run your business - and we do that by partnering with Camunda.
I’m heading to San Francisco for a Camunda Local event at the Ferry Building on Thursday April 11th (this week!), in part, to give a talk on how to better incorporate process into your business applications. Camunda, for those who aren’t familiar, is a leading process orchestration company and offering - and they host community events like this in major cities all over the world.
If this sounds interesting so far, you can register for the event here, and you can check out the write-up that Sandy Kemsley did of the Toronto event (which was great). One of the best things about these events is the chance to re-unite with colleagues in this business, and I really enjoyed catching up with Daniel and Sandy in Toronto.
If you’re coming to the event in San Francisco, you’re in luck: Daniel Meyer (CTO) and Jakob Freund (CEO) are joining the San Francisco event as well as speaking - making for a high-powered morning!
If you’d like to talk to us about how we could take a process lens approach to your business, just reach out to me directly, we’d be happy to help you.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention a couple of additional opportunities to connect with our team, and with Camunda - at CamundaCon in Berlin, Germany in May, and again in October in New York City. We’ll be participating and sponsoring those events alongside what has become a great partnership for our two firms (Camunda and BP3).
One more thing… if you haven’t listened to this panel discussion - “Austin: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” from last year’s Austin Technology Council C-Suite Summit, do it now. It was such a good discussion and captured beautifully in podcast form.
I can’t tell you how much I would have enjoyed being part of that discussion. One of the things you do when you fall in love with a subject or a place or a company is you learn its history. The oral history - the things that aren’t in the official narrative. And I loved that about this discussion. This isn’t the version of Austin prepped for an article in Texas Monthly, this is just real talk from entrepreneurs in all phases of what has made Austin, Austin.
If you’re in Austin, and you’re in tech, please consider supporting and joining the community of Austin Technology Council! Your support helps us put on great programming like the C-suite summit and the Gateway event… and soon, the upcoming Austin Tech Hall of Fame. Looking forward to hearing from you.