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The JargonSpy goes in a bit of a different direction this week, by looking at the idea of perspectives, "categories of personas with different viewpoints and concerns, which seem to be useful in explaining some of the past and present struggles in the software biz."

The perspectives the JargonSpy looks at are as follows:

• The individual perspective
• The team perspective
• The department perspective
• The organization perspective More »

This week in his JargonSpy column, Dan Woods looks at what he calls "the merry-go-round that is Business Process Management (BPM)." Once again, you are invited to read the column for another fascinating look at what the JargonSpy has to offer.

In yet another illuminating JargonSpy column, Dan Woods "looks at the choices facing software companies as they seek to deliver one product in many different ways."

The column underscores the battle between SaaS and the traditional on-premises model "in which software is installed on computers owned by the companies that use the software."

To learn more about this struggle, go to the column here.

This week's JargonSpy column has generated some reactions across the blogosphere, most notably from InformationWeek, ZDNet and Ostatic, which is a GigaOm blog. Just more confirmation that the JargonSpy column is having an impact.

This week, Dan Woods (aka the JargonSpy) examines what he calls the collaboration gap that exists between open source contributors and institutions. According to Woods' research, open source contributors tend to act from a place of "enlightened self-interest" that causes them to act as good community citizens, and that this kind of collaboration is harder to find in institutions. More »

In his JargonSpy column this week Dan Woods asks the question: "What sort of processes should be automated using BPM?" The column describes business process modeling and tells how both businesspeople and technologists become infatuated with the technique when they first learn how to use it. More »

Barton George, Sr. Director, Business Development at Lombardi Software, has mentioned this week's JargonSpy column on both the Lombardi Process People blog and his own personal blog. More »

In this week's JargonSpy column, Dan Woods writes about how business processes are seen as being "handed down from on high," and argues that instead "business processes are like wild animals," and that they should be stalked, crept up on, and then captured. More »

Following up on his two recent JargonSpy columns about different aspects of mulit-tenacy, this week, Dan Woods focuses on "three-way software." In this week's column, Woods says that "several large and small software vendors are now offering software products that can be used in three different ways based on a multi-tenant architecture." More »

In his Forbes JargonSpy column, Dan Woods talks about how the current global financial crisis "will lead to a change in IT" and how companies like Google and Dataupia will start working toward a new open-mindedness in which the unthinkable will become thinkable. More »