Earlier in July EA, BPA and BPM tools provider Metastorm released two new products, M3 and Smart Business Workspace, that launch it into the middle of a group of vendors now supporting customers transition to a more open, collaborative approach to business improvement. In line with the current trend to provide collaborative discovery & requirements [...]
Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Today, Adobe announced its intention to acquire Swiss Day Software in a deal valued at approximately $240 million. The acquisition, which is expected to close in Q4 2010, is designed to help flesh out Adobe’s enterprise software portfolio, plugging the gaps between the company’s document-centric solutions (Acrobat and Acrobat Reader), BPM platform (LiveCycle), web conferencing [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
It’s like buses isn’t it – no collaboration posts from me for weeks and then two come along at once! In a piece of news I missed last week, online communities vendor Telligent has strengthened its board with the addition of David Mitchell, who is currently CEO at BPM vendor Global 360. Mitchell has become [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
Yesterday Active Endpoints announced its Q2 2010 financial results – in the teasing way that private companies tend to do, typically avoiding absolute numbers and sticking to percentages. Still, the numbers that are there are impressive. I’m making a guess that the company’s annual revenue is currently under $10m, and of course this does represent [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
On Monday, Mindjet announced the next version of its mind mapping software, called Mind Manager 9, which will be released this summer. While electronic mind mapping arguably has a fairly limited appeal, Mind Manager has had significant success over the last 13 years, with 1.5 million customers of the desktop tool. The challenge for Mindjet [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
A couple of days ago the June 2010 release of IBM BPM Blueprint went live, and it’s interesting to see this Social BPM trailblazer take inspiration from another corner of the SaaS/social software world – Salesforce.com’s Chatter. (You can read Angela’s take on Chatter here). Specifically there’s now a capability that allows any user to [...]
Posted on Friday, July 9, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Our own worst enemy: BPM pros tell horror stories about working with EA – Inside Architecture – Site Home – MSDN Blogs Great piece from Nick Malik. Some great anecdotal research in there, and real food for thought. (tags: bpm ea collaboration failure)
Posted on Friday, July 9, 2010 by admin
Process Simplicity | ActionBase Blog – Thoughts on Collaboration Process Management Unstructured Compliance and Audit Via BP3's Scott Francis – thought-provoking stuff. (tags: bpm collaboration simplicity socialsoftware) Got Social Processes? Nice to see Gartner's Jim Sinur has picked up on our analysis of Social Processes ;-) (tags: bpm collaboration socialsoftware)
Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Following a significant amount of effort ove rmany months, Angela Ashenden (our Principal Analyst focused on Collaboration) and I have finally finished what I think is a landmark report looking at the phenomena of Social BPM and Social Processes. In the new MWD Strategic Insights report (which you can find here) we explain in detail [...]
Posted on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
If you follow MWD in the blogosphere on a fairly regular basis, you might have noticed a few oddities in our feeds and our blogs over the past couple of days – apologies if it’s inconvenienced you. We’ve made a couple of changes to make it easier to follow what we’re doing from one place. [...]
Posted on Monday, July 5, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
