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Oracle formally enters the productivity suite market, targeting Microsoft and Google

Last week, Oracle announced the release of two new office productivity suite offerings designed to compete head on with Microsoft Office and Google Docs in the enterprise market. Oracle Open Office 3.3 is the latest update to Oracle’s own version of the open source, on-premise software that it acquired as part of its purchase of [...]

Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2010 by

TIBCO’s 2010: maintaining momentum, branching out

Back in September I reported briefly on TIBCO’s third quarter results: in that quarter, it saw a strong year-on-year revenue rise of 23%. Today TIBCO announced that its fourth quarter matched its third in terms of year-on-year revenue growth with another 23% rise; overall for its 2010 financial year revenue was up 21%. Earlier in [...]

Posted on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 by

To predict or not to predict? Beyond fortune cookie blah

You’ve seen them; I’ve seen them. Seven ways mobile devices will transform your work in 2011! Top 10 trends in server hardware you have to understand! 99 sharp implements that lists of surface-level platitudes will make you want to poke into your eyes! When it comes to November each year (it gets earlier each year, [...]

Posted on Friday, December 17, 2010 by

Creating an open source body of knowledge on process management

Have you heard of the Process Knowledge Initiative? If not, and you’re actively involved in BPM work, perhaps it’s time to find out! The goal of the Process Knowledge Initiative is to “create an open source body of knowledge on process management” (currently referred to as the PKBoK). The initiative was started in September following [...]

Posted on Thursday, December 9, 2010 by

links for 2010-11-30

Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Grabs $25 Million In New Funding Yammer reinforces its position in the market with another substantial round of funding, highlighting the strength of optimism and opportunity behind the enterprise collaboration market. We look forward to seeing the impact that this new investment has as we enter 2011. (tags: collaboration yammer [...]

Posted on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 by