Personal highlights Cordial 2010

Event: Cordial 2010 event

Date: 14 and 15 September 2010

Location: Cordys, Putten, Netherlands

This year I had the luck to attend Cordial 2010.

This is a quick impression and listing of personal highlights of the event:

A massive crowd of both customers and partners of Cordys attended the events from all over the world, showing that Cordys is very much alive.
Being introduced to the new CEO and Jan Baan’s successor Per Johnsson
A very dynamic and inspiring presentation by Manfred Kets de Vries about Leadership
The opportunity to meet the product development team face-2-face to get an insight in the expected enhancements in both BOP-4 and Cordys Process Process Factory, that will be shipped in fp1. (FP1 ships “when ready”, expected before the end of 2010)

I.m.o. the most interesting:

The insights provided by Forrester in the trends in Cloud and BPM, where the most imlessons are:

There is a bright future for combined on-premises / cloud solutions, mostly depending on the level of confidentiality and commodity
Data remains the biggest asset
New business and payment models will arise based on the options that the cloud offers.
Collaboration using the social networks

2 thrilling demonstrations by Matt Davies and Chris Hyde to realize a Cloud and a hybrid BOP-4 / Cloud solution in 9 minutes
The statement that Cordys shifts from a product demonstration towards a marketing organization, where the product “the most important marketing tool”
Meeting a lot of old “acquaintances” and many new interesting cordys related professionals.