A couple of days ago I listened into Pegasystems’ annual earnings analyst call to find out what the company – the largest specialist “pure play” BPM technology provider by revenue, by my reckoning – managed to make of 2009. Off the back of 50% license revenue growth in 2008-9, the company achieved another year of [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonOne of the themes we delve into in our free online framing a Cloud Computing strategy event is the emerging role of the Service Integrator. This is something I’ve been talking about for a while in discussions with clients but I thought I’d share it a bit more widely… So what is a Service Integrator? [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday I had a briefing from Paul McNamara* and John Carione of Adobe regarding the recently-announced LiveCycle Managed Services offering. LiveCycle Managed Services is powered by Adobe’s LiveCycle ES2 BPM suite, hosted on Amazon’s EC2 platform. The company had previously introduced LiveCycle Developer Express, also hosted on Amazon’s EC2 platform.This offering provided an online subscription [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonIt’s easy to dismiss Cloud Computing as just another IT industry hype bubble that will one day burst, showering everyone in a slightly stale-smelling mist. Certainly, as with all waves of technology advancement, there’s been an *awful* lot of hype about the potential and – just like any other technology advancement – Cloud Computing offers [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonAppian’s bumper 2009 « BPM service news A look at how BPM specialist Appian has grown during the economic downturn and its prospects for 2010 (tags: bpm appian) What process simulation shares with CEP « BPM service news A look at whether simulation is actually used in practice in BPM initiatives, even though it's a [...]
Posted on Saturday, February 6, 2010 by adminToday Salesforce.com formally announced the availability of a new element of the Force.com platform – Visual Process Manager.Visual Process Manager is a toolset and platform for modelling and executing workflows that’s integrated into the Force.com platform. It’s based on technology acquired from call-centre automation specialist Informavores in 2009. Prior to this, Salesforce.com only had a [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
