I was (very slowly) getting wound up to splurge an in-depth post on Google’s partnership with VMware around the Google App Engine, but then I read William Vambenepe’s blog: From VMWare + SalesForce.com (VMForce) to VMWare + Google: VMWare’s PaaS milestones. I think he’s done a lot of the work for me… What I will [...]
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonAs I mentioned in our 2009 report SAP’s BPM play, “SAP’s BPM play both opens new process improvement territory up for SAP to work on, and also helps SAP protect its position as a supplier in the face of other vendors with BPM technology offerings who threaten to make the value of its applications more [...]
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonGoogle Apps update alerts: Google Wave (Labs) available for Google Apps Interesting to see that Wave has reached sufficient maturity that the preview (i.e. pre-beta stage) is now available through Google Apps Labs – this should provide a new level of testing and refining for the product and also test out its suitability in an [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by Angela AshendenAt TIBCO’s TUCON user conference a couple of weeks back, CEO Vivek Ranadivé unveiled the themes that his company plans to use to anchor its marketing over the next year at least: Enterprise 3.0 and the “two-second advantage”. Unsurprisingly given his predilection for publishing books that provide the backstories for his company’s direction (see The [...]
Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonAt its TUCON customer event this week TIBCO announced a new BPM technology platform, ActiveMatrix BPM. As usual Sandy Kemsley has a detailed blow-by-blow account of the event – I won’t attempt to replicate it! ActiveMatrix BPM is the fruit of a couple of years’ hectic behind-the-scenes engineering work by TIBCO. It builds on TIBCO’s [...]
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week I flew to Vegas to attend IBM’s IMPACT customer conference. As James points out IMPACT used to be the conference for WebSphere customers; however a couple of years ago Sandy Carter (then head of marketing for WebSphere) put paid to that by shifting the focus to IBM’s big unifying story of the day [...]
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonSharePoint 2010 Licensing Explained « Murray Gordon As we approach the launch of SharePoint 2010 (later this week), this is a useful post outlining the different licensing alternatives for the new version. Note that for FAST you have to buy the Enterprise Client Access License (CAL). (tags: Microsoft SharePoint collaboration licensing)
Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by Angela AshendenSAP Community Network Blogs Explanation of why SAP offers different tools for Business Process Monitoring & Business Process Optimization, via Sandy Kemsley… it's as clear as mud… (tags: sap bpm optimisation monitoring)
Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by adminToday IBM announced it’s just completed the acquisition of Cast Iron Systems – a 75-person US-based specialist provider of integration technology for Cloud platforms and SaaS applications. The company started in 2001 focused on providing integration technology for business-to-business deployments of web services; latterly it’s taken its core technology and tweaked its proposition to focus [...]
Posted on Monday, May 3, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week VMware and salesforce.com announced a partnership to deliver a joint Cloud computing service, vmforce. Any enterprise IT architect or strategist with a serious interest in Cloud computing should take time to dig into it. Why is vmforce significant? Well, the obvious reason is that the partnership represents an alignment of two of the [...]
Posted on Monday, May 3, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
