Sponsor: Progress Software
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner
Speakers: W. Roy Schulte, Jim Sinur, Dr. John Bates
Type: Video (28 minutes)
If there’s one business absolute, it’s that our information will exponentially continue to grow, get faster and be more complex. And transactions, processes, and events aren’t just coming at us faster and less predictably, they’re impacting one another and converging to create a completely new conditions. This forces business decision makers to be far more creative in far less time. Thus, more and more companies are turning to responsive process management to become operationally responsive.
But what benefits do they gain and what challenges will they face? In this program, three leading experts, Research Vice Presidents Jim Sinur and Roy Schulte, both from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Dr. John Bates, CTO of Progress Software, reveal how you can gain actionable insight into your business to become more efficient, avoid risk, and capitalize on opportunities, all without disrupting your existing infrastructure.
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About Dr. John Bates, SVP, CTO, Progress Software
Dr. John Bates is senior vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and head of Corporate Development for Progress Software. He is a recognized visionary and entrepreneur in the software industry and has a strong track record of innovation in areas such as event-driven architectures, smart environments, and business activity monitoring.
In particular, Bates is recognized as one of the foremost driving forces behind the emergence of complex event processing (CEP) and has pioneered the commercial use of event processing applications in business solutions that empower operational responsiveness, including capital markets trading, risk and compliance, telecommunications, fraud prevention, smart logistics and many more.
About Roy Schulte , VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
Roy Schulte is a vice president and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner Research on the Application Strategy and Governance team. His specialties include event processing and ESBs.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Schulte was a product manager in financial systems engineering with Digital Equipment. His previous positions include system programmer, database administrator, application programmer, software product manager and manager of competitive analysis.
About Jim Sinur, Research VP, Gartner
Jim Sinur is a vice president in Gartner Research after a short stint with a BPM vendor. Prior to that, Mr. Sinur was with Gartner 15 years and helped establish the BPI/BPM areas at Gartner and is considered a thought leader.
His research and areas of personal experience focus on business process improvement (BPI), business modeling, business process management technology (BPMT), processes for knowledge workers, process optimization business rules management (BRMS), and leveraging business applications in processes and goal-driven unstructured processes. Mr. Sinur was critical in creating the first Hype Cycle at Gartner, which has become a hallmark of Gartner analysis, along with the Magic Quadrant. He has been active in the rules, data and computing communities, helping shape direction based on practical experience.
