Today was the opening day for the main TechEd conference. From what I heard most people found the opening speech from Anne Kirah interesting but not technical enough. This ‘division’ between the technology community and the general public is always of interest to me. We saw it recently with the Telstra FTTN debate, the mainstream press could not comprehend how FTTN was any different from copper. I find the lack of depth in the articles bizarre because I am sure these people are researching, writing and submitting their stories over the internet. Anyway I was confronted again by this gap in a Biztalk session at TechEd this afternoon (see picture to the right). |
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It was an interesting session, however it was quite poorly attended. Upon watching the session I think I realise why! It was revealed to me when they talked about the Business Scorecard Manager. There is a problem with the software/management interface (sure, like I am the first to say it). It is all well and good to provide nice clear graphs to management, but there are some obvious problems:
Now of course there are some companies where these statements may not hold true, but So what is the solution then? Software that ‘learns’ how the business works by itself? |