Bill Gates introduces PNMsoft's SEQUENCE at the Office System Developers Conference 2008

Bill Gates:
The next example I picked is one called PNMsoft. It's a company. They're a partner in Israel, and they have a business process management solution called Sequence. And here they're connecting up to BizTalk Server, and so if you have workflows that relate to transactions, or analysis, that's very straightforward. They connect in so you get rich visualization on the information, and here a lot of their information they're connecting into the Oracle applications, like purchasing, HR, and finance. We have, of course, a huge amount of innovation going on in workflow and business intelligence, and your data that you want to do business intelligence on comes from many sources. It comes from your ERP applications, it comes from external sources, it comes from things that were done bottoms up, maybe in Excel type analysis, and being able to pull that all together into a horizontal platform that's very simple to use, and yet has all this data makes a very big difference. And so we have had a lot of customers take this Sequence and use it to bring their Oracle information into this environment. They've done a great job on fast deployments, so after three months at a global telcom company, they were able to connect up 30 processes inside this company being used by over 15,000 employees. And these processes without the connection to the ERP from this workflow environment, it couldn't have been done. It couldn't have been done in workflow alone, it couldn't have been done in ERP alone. It's by bringing those together that these processes could be made digital and simple for this broad set of employees. So that's another great example.

Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation
Office System Developers Conference 2008
San Jose, USA
Feb. 11, 2008

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