Yesterday we launched Lombardi’s first on-demand training course, Process Mapping 101. Appropriately, it features our on-demand product, Blueprint. Rather than putting together a how-to-use-Blueprint course, we wanted to go broader and create a how-to-get-started with Process Mapping. What we’ve been hearing from a lot of our customers is that, while the Blueprint product is fairly…
Yesterday a little before noon I jumped in my car and headed to UT to attend the Rackspace Cloud Event. It was held on campus in the same building that “hosts” (bad pun intended) the local NPR station as well as the studio that Austin City Limits is filmed in. It was this studio that…
On Saturday we took the kids to the Sweet Berry Farm pumpkin patch in Marble Falls, about an hour outside of Austin. When we checked out the petting zoo we were quite surprised to find the goats hanging out in the trees. I thought I’d share this rare glimpse of the species goatis-tree-dwellis. This guy…
Just because your product is serious, it doesn’t mean your internal release names have to be dull. In the case of Blueprint, given the frequent release cycle that its hosted nature allows for, the team looked for a naming schema that would allow for a large set of possibilities. The answer? An alphabetical list of…
The great thing about cloud-based applications is that it doesn’t matter what they’re written in or how they’re constructed, all that matters is that they do what you need them to. What’s the back-end of your phone system written in? Odds are you don’t know and don’t care. That being said, there are group of…
If a pictures is worth a 1,000 words, how many words is a 1 minute and 39 second-you tube video worth? See for yourself. Below is a clip that introduces the viewer to Lombardi Blueprint, the cloud-based process modeling solution (everything you see is taking place within a browser) that I’m working on. Initial Project…
Yesterday, Nat Torkington had an interesting post on O’Reilly Radar (not to be confused with Radar O’Reilly) entitled “The effect of the Depression on Technology.” Whether I would classify what we’re in as a “Depression” or not, is beside the point. The economy is definitely not doing well and folks are spooked. Seeing the glass…
18 months ago I did a post about one of my classmates from Punahou School. At the time he was one of the many possible democratic candidates for Presidency of the United States. We are now less than a month away from the election and Barry is not only the democratic nominee but is currently…
From the same event where Jeff Keltner of Google talked about Cloud Computing, below is a video of Adam Selipsky, Amazon’s VP of product marketing and developer relations for Amazon Web Services. Adam uses his slot to talk about what Amazon’s been doing in the last couple of years in the area of Web services….
My wife and I headed down to San Antonio yesterday to celebrate our anniversary. We stayed at the Emily Morgan Hotel right across the street from the Alamo. I don’t know about you but the mental picture I’ve always had in my mind of San Antonio was dry and dusty. I was blown away by…
I came across the following short video featuring Jeff Keltner a Business Development Manager for Google Apps. The video is from TechWeb from mid August and it looks like it was taken at an event featuring various “Cloud Players” (I noticed Amazon’s VP of Amazon Web Services, Adam Selipsky is sitting on the couch while…
Last year when I took my daughter trick-or-treating I came across the amazing pumpkin below. I have no idea how they carved this. If you don’t recognize the creature, he’s from the film Pan’s Labyrinth. I can’t wait to see what they carve this year! Pau for now…
Like all “new” things, if its hot and catches on everyone and his brother will jump on the band wagon and want to spread some of its magic pixie dust on their offerings — witness the overuse of the term “Web 2.0.” Such is the current case with “Cloud Computing” a re-branding of an evolution…
A couple of weeks ago, my second day on the job, I was on a flight to our Nation’s capital to take in the Gartner BPM Summit. It was a great way to dive into the wild and wacky world of Business Process Management. It also enabled me to meet a lot of the members…
Who doesn’t love a David and Goliath story? Looks like General Electric has chosen India-based Zoho over Google to supply its cloud-based desktop suite on 400,000 desktops. Zoho is a 600 person company that has never taken venture funding and currently generates $40 million a year. According to Daya Baran’s blog “A GE spokesperson who…
I’ll have to admit that I was a bit surprised to learn that there was an exotic zoo/safari park just outside of Austin. To be more precise, its just outside of Johnson City (the boyhood home of LBJ) which is probably why its named the Johnson City Exotic Resort Zoo. The park has over 500…
My last day at Sun was two weeks ago and, trite as it may sound, it seems like another lifetime. I started at Lombardi last week but spent the majority of that week attending the Gartner BPM Summit in DC (pictures to be found in an upcoming post). During my 13 year career at Sun…
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