Today MWD launched a new free online event targeted at senior business and IT decision makers within enterprises with roles to play in driving collaboration and knowledge management improvements. The event – How to get your people talking: the secrets of successful collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 – includes a keynote presentation by MWD’s collaboration expert [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 by Beth Barling
Last week, infrastructure generalist vendors TIBCO and Progress Software, both of which sell BPM technology alongside complementary technology (event processing, ESB, data integration, analytics, and so on) announced their Q3 financial results. TIBCO announced that it had achieved 23% growth year-on-year in both license revenue and overall; Progress announced that it had achieved 8% growth [...]
Posted on Monday, September 27, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Everybody knows that when organisations refer obliquely to “cutting costs through use of IT”, they’ve got at least one eye on the possibility of being able to cut some labour cost out. Of course, no-one likes talking about this directly, so we prefer to talk about “allowing people to concentrate on delivering more value to [...]
Posted on Friday, September 24, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Chatter 2 is Here. Already. — SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ – Salesforce.com announces the next version of Chatter, the collaboration platform which it has embedded in its business applications, as well as offering as a standalone service. With enhancements such as filters, analytics, recommendations and a dekstop app, this is a meaty upgrade coming [...]
Posted on Friday, September 24, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
This week IBM announced its agreement to acquire Netezza, a leading provider of data warehousing appliances, for $1.7 billion. The deal equates to $27 per share paid for in cash and represents a 9.8% premium over its closing price on Friday. The acquisition is a good move by IBM: by buying one of the pioneers [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by Helena Schwenk
A few days ago we further expanded our library of BPM vendor capability assessments with a new report on Global 360′s offering – looking principally at analystView, Process360 and managerView. If you want our really quick take (extracted from the report), here it is: Global 360 is a vendor with a long heritage in the [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
12 Top Social Media Policies from the Knowledge Network | ITBusinessEdge.com IT Business Edge have published a great collections of guidelines for everything from Twitter and Facebook to personal blogs; a valuable resource for any organisation considering how to handle social media governance. (tags: social_media governance policy)
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
Oracle recently announced two new products as part of its Data Integration Suite: Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition (ODI) 11g and Oracle GoldenGate 11g. The announcement not only aligns the company’s data integration tools under the 11g banner but demonstrates it is continuing to deliver on its strategy of building a heterogeneous data integration platform [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Helena Schwenk
Via Sandy Kemsley I’d heard of this week’s BPM 2010 conference in Hoboken NJ, and it sounded like a great one – unfortunately I couldn’t attend. Having read a lot of Phil Gilbert‘s writing and heard him speak a few times, I was particularly interested to hear his keynote from the conference. Although I couldn’t [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
Yesterday Salesforce.com’s customer, partner and media event, Cloudforce 2010, took place in London, drawing an impressive 3,000 or so attendees – all the more impressive given that the company changed the date only a week in advance in order to avoid clashing with Tuesday’s London Tube strike. The event itself was the first since the [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 9, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
