Resources
Guides for the work, and reading from the field.
Three short guides live on this site. The Bloomspire posts below are live writing from Bloomspire, where Jon is Managing Partner — linked out, not republished here.
Guides
Written for this site. Practical checklists and short prose. No newsletter, and no claim that a guide replaces a look at your repository.
Guide · September 25, 2026 · 8 min
Siebel upgrade checklist
A practical sequence for a Siebel upgrade: one Monday path, the repository and the jobs around it, and a rollback someone has actually tried.
Guide · September 25, 2026 · 7 min
When Open UI performance goes wrong
How to isolate a slow Open UI view: browser, network, the applet query, and the presentation-model method, before anyone adds hardware.
Guide · September 25, 2026 · 8 min
.NET modernization paths
Four different meanings of “modernize this .NET application,” and the questions that decide which one you are actually in.
External reading
From the field.Bloomspire is Jon’s firm — he is Managing Partner. Each link leaves higgssoftware.com for a live post on bloomspire.com. Titles and dates only. Full articles are not copied onto this site.
Recent Bloomspire
- External · Bloomspire · Sep 24, 2026Sep 24, 2026 — Upcoming Siebel CRM webinars (next 2 weeks)External
- External · Bloomspire · Sep 13, 2026Sep 13, 2026 — Siebel: September 2026 CSPU pre-release (63 patches)External
- External · Bloomspire · 2025Revolutionizing Siebel CRM: Bloomspire's Modern UI for a Simpler, Smarter FutureExternal
Older Siebel pieces
IP2014-era notes on buttons, presentation models, and what an upgrade actually turned up. Still the right pile when an Open UI screen does not match the old screenshot.
- External · Bloomspire · 2015Siebel IP2014: Where Did My Buttons Go?External
- External · Bloomspire · 2015How to Override the Applet Method Invoked in IP2014's Presentation ModelExternal
- External · Bloomspire · 2015A Summary of Our Siebel IP 2014 Upgrade Findings - Part 1External
- External · Bloomspire · 2015A Summary of Our Siebel IP 2014 Upgrade Findings - Part 2External
Curio
If the system matters and the team is small, start with a conversation.
A paragraph on the system, the constraint, and the timing is enough. Jon reads these. There is no intake desk.