Because one of the main themes of our research programs here at MWD this year has been the role of IT in improving customer experiences, I’ve been doing quite a lot of primary research work (including many case studies, some of which are published as reports) looking at how organisations are using BPM technology and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday IBM finally took the wrappers off Cognos 10 during the company’s Information-on- Demand event in Las Vegas. This is an important release for the company as it demonstrates IBM’s on-going commitment to Business Analytics and the Cognos brand. In particular it builds on the success of the company’s existing BI and PM offering whilst [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 by Helena SchwenkLast week I attended SAP TechEd in Berlin, the business application vendor’s premier European developer conference. During an event packed with NetWeaver 7.3 announcements, SAP chose to highlight its on-going commitment to in-memory computing with HANA, its High-performance Analytic Appliance. This version of HANA is designed to enable faster ways to process data from business [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Helena SchwenkEarlier this week, as part of its autumn 2010 launch of updated ‘business agility’ offerings covering BPM, SOA, virtualisation and cloud computing topics, IBM announced the upcoming launch of a new SaaS offering for organisations pursuing business agility initiatives: Blueworks Live. Blueworks Live isn’t IBM’s first foray into the world of SaaS tools for customers [...]
Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday Active Endpoints announced its Q3 results. The really eye-catching piece was that total revenue in the quarter (July-September) was three times as high as revenue in the same quarter of 2009. The company called out government, telecoms and financial services as being areas of particularly strong growth and highlighted European wins in Finland (telecoms) [...]
Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonDon’t forget to check out our FREE MWD Insights collaboration event – How to get your people talking: the secrets of successful collaboration and Enterprise 2.0. The event, which is available on-demand so you can view it as and when it’s convenient, includes a keynote presentation by me, accompanied by two case study interviews with [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 by Angela AshendenLast month Actuate unleashed a slew of products announcements that are wrapped up an umbrella brand ActuateOne – a unified product suite for developing and deploying reporting, analytic and dashboard applications. The suite leverages the open source Eclipse project, BIRT, and utilises the core capabilities of Actuate 11, the company’s commercial BI offering for large [...]
Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 by Helena SchwenkAs the most high-profile example of microblogging for the enterprise, Yammer has built up an impressive userbase in only two years, with over 1 million users, and 80,000 networks on its service. Earlier this week, I met up with Keith McCarty, who is setting up a new operation for Yammer in London, to find out [...]
Posted on Friday, October 8, 2010 by Angela AshendenEarlier this week I spoke at IRM’s BPM Conference Europe 2010 in London (along with many others, including Sandy Kemsley). This is a conference heavy on real-world implementation stories and comparatively lighter on industry trends and vision, and for that reason it’s always really interesting to explore. As usual, Sandy has already written up some [...]
Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week I was lucky enough to be invited to attend and present at a new London-based conference called Intranets at Work, which was hosted by J.Boye. The attendees were mostly intranet managers (whether by name or by activity), and the event included a strong collection of presentations from both practictioners and consultants, as well [...]
Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010 by Angela Ashenden
