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7 Trends for Industrial Digital Twins in 2022

7 Trends for Industrial Digital Twins in 2022

2021 has been an excellent year for increased awareness of the application and benefits of industrial digital twins. Organizations such … Read more

The Value of a Composable Digital Twin

The Value of a Composable Digital Twin

What is a Composable Digital Twin 2020 will go down in history as one of the most disruptive, uncertain, and ... Read more

Lean Digital Twin: Part 3

Lean Digital Twin: Part 3

This is the final article in a 3-part series on Lean Digital Twins. Get started with part 1 and part 2 or ... Read more

Lean Digital Twin: Part 2

Lean Digital Twin: Part 2

In part 1 of this series, we described the fundamentals of the Lean Startup approach and how it can be ... Read more

Lean Digital Twin: Part 1

Lean Digital Twin: Part 1

The recent rise in interest in digital twins for industrial applications reminds of medieval seafarers navigating unchartered waters in search ... Read more

From the Control Room to the Bedroom

From the Control Room to the Bedroom

How we went from “going to work” to “being at work” overnight As part of their daily operations, executives, managers ... Read more

Digital Twin: Your Most Productive Remote Worker

Digital Twin: Your Most Productive Remote Worker

Remote work is becoming the new normal for many businesses, and it requires a new way of monitoring and managing ... Read more

Digital Twins: The Ultimate Guide

Digital Twins: The Ultimate Guide

This guide will help you understand exactly what a digital twin is and how you can use it to manage ... Read more

My Digital Twin

My Digital Twin: Digital Twin Applications for Real-time Operations (Like Me)

Everyone is talking about digital twins. But I find so many different definitions that I thought I'd use myself as ... Read more

3 Patterns of Industrial IoT Use Cases

3 Patterns of Industrial IoT Use Cases

One of the biggest challenges that industrial companies have when evaluating industrial IoT is finding “use cases” or scenarios where ... Read more

XMPro Mind The Gap

The CXO’s Guide to Digital Transformation – May The Five Forces Be With You

C-Level executives are under pressure to have their organizations remain competitive, profitable, retain customers and grow. Never before have we ... Read more

XMPro Digital Business Platform

What is a Digital Business Platform and Why Should I Care?

XMPro was recently named a Hot Vendor for Digital Business Platforms by Aragon Research and also included as an Innovator … Read more

RPA for Predictive Maintenance

[Robotic] Process Automation for IoT

While Process Automation for asset-intensive industries is not new, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is. Traditional Process Automation is used to ... Read more

XMPro at bpmNEXT

XMPro at bpmNEXT 2018: Watch The Presentation

Learn how to Turn IoT Technology into Operational Capability in this presentation by XMPro's CEO, Pieter van Schalkwyk. In this presentation ... Read more

Industrial IoT Survey Results

XMPro IoT Operational Capability Survey Results 2018

In a recent survey, we asked users in Industrial IoT to rank their current IoT capability challenges. The results correlated well ... Read more

Security Trustworthiness

Is Security More Important Than Trustworthiness for Industrial IoT?

Security is mentioned in almost every meeting that I have with CIOs, Enterprise Architects, Operational Technology (OT) specialists and the ... Read more

IoT Business Solutions Start with Big Data & Create Business Outcomes

IoT Business Solutions Start with Big Data & Create Business Outcomes

While many IoT solutions focus on collecting, analyzing and visualizing machine data, the organizations using IoT technologies are mainly interested … Read more

Industrial IoT Application Development Platform

The Top 5 Reasons to Invest in an IIoT Development Platform

Working in Business Development for a provider of an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) development platform is the most interesting ... Read more

How AI Bots Bring Digital Twins to Life

How AI Bots Bring Digital Twins to Life

Industry 3.0 was characterized by factory automation where manufacturing robots replaced humans to do repetitive, manual tasks at a much ... Read more

7 Types IIoT Data Sources

7 Types of Industrial IoT Data Sources (And How To Use Them)

Where does industrial IoT data come from? Most people would say it comes from assets like pumps, turbine engines and ... Read more

IoT Platform vs Business App Suite

What is an IoT Platform vs. an IoT Business Application Suite?

With the number of connected IoT devices growing exponentially (common estimates are 20-50 billion by 2020, and 500 billion by ... Read more

Industrial IoT Adoption

How To Overcome The Top 5 Challenges To Industrial IoT Adoption

Free Download: Click here to get a PDF of this blog post for your next IoT strategy meeting. The key to successful ... Read more

Get Started with Industrial IoT

Industrial IoT: How To Get Started with Predictive Maintenance

Free Download: Click here to get your spreadsheet to rank potential candidates for IoT-based predictive maintenance. Predictive maintenance is one of the ... Read more

IoT Application Suite

How an IoT Application Suite Can Transform Your Business

Follow Emma The Exterminator as she creates the Uber of Restaurant Health & Safety. Click here for Part 2 of … Read more

Industrial IoT

How To Get Started With Industrial IoT

Is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) a solution looking for a problem? There is currently a lot written about ... Read more

Internet of Things Field Service

3 Ways The Internet of Things is Transforming Field Service

The mobile app economy made us become accustomed to being ‘always on’, having the right information when we need it ... Read more

Benefits Predictive Analytics

How To Reduce Operational Costs by 36% with Predictive Analytics

Tony Cosentino of Ventana Research, a leading research and benchmarking firm, recently published these comments on the results of study ... Read more

Machine Learning Myths

6 Myths About Machine Learning

As the concepts of big data and operational automation have seen their profiles rise over the last years, so to ... Read more

Predictive Analytics Use Case

10 Predictive Analytics Use Cases By Industry

One of the truly great uses for any business operations tool set is the ability to generate predictive analytics, which ... Read more

Complex Event Processing

From Many, One – The Nature of Complex Event Processing

Initially, systems management software was used to detect singular events within a given system, by detecting log entries or event … Read more

Operational Intelligence vs Business Intelligence

Does Operational Intelligence Make Business Intelligence Obsolete?

It doesn’t require a massive leap of faith to believe that business intelligence has become a mainstream tool for many, … Read more

BPM Enterprise Architecture

Herding Cats: What Enterprise Architects need to know about Business Process Management

A Business Process, put simply, is a collection of activities toward a common business goal, usually with the end result … Read more

Real Time KPI Dashboard

Understanding the Value of Real Time KPI Management as Your Next Strategic Project

It’s easy to get caught up in a given project. An executive sponsor, in response to a given business or … Read more

What is a “Business Moment” in your business?

(This article was first published on LinkedIn Posts) Leading research firm Gartner is talking about “Business Moments” as a key … Read more

Sense > Decide > Act

How Important Are Processes To The Internet Of Things?

In my view the question should be focused on the business outcome: How important is it to sense key business … Read more

Operational Intelligence Platform

Making Business Operations More Intelligent

Gartner’s Roy Schulte and Michele Cantara published a great research article on “Practical Ways to Make Business Operations More Intelligent” … Read more

Best Next Action Is The Next Big Thing For Intelligent Operations

Best Next Action Is The Next Big Thing For Intelligent Operations

What if every person in your organization knew what the Best Next Action is every time they need to make … Read more

Why Workflow Doesn’t Work

Why Workflow Doesn’t Work

Most industries are now knowledge-based industries, from agriculture to manufacturing, construction to mining. These industries have , to a large … Read more

How big of a problem are ‘dark processes’?

How big of a problem are ‘dark processes’?

Peter Schoof posted this question on ebizQ and here was my reply: Let’s look at Jim’s definition “A dark process is an … Read more

Why Intelligent Business Operations is Mobile, Social and Smart

Why Intelligent Business Operations is Mobile, Social and Smart

I introduced the Unpredictable Process graph in a previous blog post. It is actually more of an “Unpredictable Operational Risk” … Read more

Operational Risk: When You Stick Your Head In The Sand

Operational Risk: When You Stick Your Head In The Sand

Your problem is that you are not addressing 80% of your problem. What do I mean by that? Your problem … Read more

The Difference Between Event-based And Workflow-based Processes

The Difference Between Event-based And Workflow-based Processes

There is a long running misconception that business processes are workflow-based. It stems from Business Process Analysis (BPA) efforts to … Read more

Why Do You Want Intelligent Business Operations?

There are a number of views on what Intelligent Business Operations (IBO) is, whether it is new and whether it … Read more

Is mobile BPM now essential to the business?

This is the topic of a question posted on ebizQ forum. I posted a comment there, but thought I will also re-post … Read more

Social Listening – Get Control Of The Conversation

Social Listening – Get Control Of The Conversation

Gartner’s Jim Sinur posted an interesting blog post titled “The Big Oops: Forget About Social Networking” where he describes 3 … Read more

Operations Management - The Keys To KPIs

Operations Management – The Keys To KPIs

The APQC PCF (Process Classification Framework) gives a bird’s eye view on the anatomy of work activities that keep the organisational gears … Read more

Stretch Socially Dynamic Processes To Fit Your Business

I just read Gartner’s Jim Sinur’s blog post and he has started writing more and more on the social aspect of business … Read more

How to Prioritise Processes

How to Prioritise Processes

There are a number of approaches based on the culture and maturity of the organisation and we are currently working … Read more

Benefits of BPM v 1.0

BPM Benefits v 2.0 will be addressed in a follow up post and revolves around the additional benefits gained from … Read more

Mobile BPM

Mobile BPM introduces a new set of design, use and security considerations and XMPro will publish some design guidelines in … Read more

Preserving Capability and Agility

he responsibility of IT managers to provide solutions that will preserve capability with fewer employees serving the same number of … Read more

The Business Drivers

The Business Drivers

There are 6 business value drivers identified by Jack Alexander in his book Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation that are … Read more

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