Author: colin

Looking at AWS Health DataLake

I have been looking at AWS Health DataLake which just went GA for parts of the world, there is potential but more is needed, it is based on HL7 FIHR (a great standard almost no-one uses) with no translation tools from HL7 V2.x ( a terrible ‘loose’ standard that almost everyone uses). No good searching/analysing data pipeline solution and low message number capabilities – 10 messages a second. This is only really useful for reviewing an existing data set, not any sort of real time feed from a major pathology LIS or hospital PAS.

At least today, Google’s Cloud product, HealthCare, is far more complete. Amazon tends to improve things pretty quickly though so it is definitely worth watching.

How to add custom javascript to images when using MarsEdit for WordPress on a Mac

I have been trying to have images run some javascript when clicked on my blog, normally simple enough but difficult when using the otherwise great editor, MarsEdit, as your blog tool.

After a log of playing I finally worked out to make this work…

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Sap mobile strategy

SAP is really moving in the mobility space – in many directions; as usual confusing their customers.

They have recently acquired Ariba along with partnerships with Sencha and Phone Gap. 

It looks like they are making a serious push into cloud offerings – perhaps changing their target markets to smaller as their rhetoric has been saying for years ? There’s an obvious push for end user applications but does that fit SAPs market?

Where does this leave other realms; Syclo, Sybase and strategic partnerships with Click….

Where’s CRM it seems to have been left out of the equation?

 

BPMN 2.0 no arguments about events…

BPMN 2.0 is to be voted on in June with release around August/September and from all signs is likely to be passed as is. According to Bruce De Silver one of the big changes from an analyst point of view is event handling.

I, like I’m sure others, have been told by BPMN modelling vendors that events are a ‘system thing’ and shouldn’t be used to model a business flow. In any large scale process work I have done half the issue is differentiating the correct path through a process, to the exceptions. Whether the goal is removing exceptions for efficiency or showing

Of course BPMN 2.0 has many other advantages for those who wishes to execute process flows directly by a BPMS required attributes have been defined rather than the previous practice where each vendor had different names. In my opinion this can never be achieved, the process complexity needed for IT systems is far greater than business people need to know, or have to think about. This is particularly the case for the executives who we need the buy in from to get meaningful business change! Orchestration is an exception but the line between orchestration and workflow is forever hazy…

From rumours it seems OMG is trying to tie UML closer to BPMN, a move sure to push BPMN forever into the IT department domain and away from business users. But  at least this will hopefully mean the  end of BPEL!

First use of Blueprint in anger

I have been using the product on and off on trial it for a couple months but this article came about after a colleague needed to convert some Visio BPMN diagrams to something better in a hurry. There is nothing like a fast deadline to really put a product to the test.

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First impressions of Lombardi Blueprint

While ARIS is a fantastic product for large organisations, smaller groups or projects may not need it’s full capabilities. It is with this in mind, and the significantly reduced associated price tag, that I investigated the Blueprint product from Lombardi Software.

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