This week we launched the latest in our series of MWD Insights events. This time we’re looking at Process Intelligence (PI). PI is something that’s been around as a concept for a while now, but we’ve found a lot of confusion out there still as to what its focus and scope actually is. Is it [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 27, 2011 by Beth BarlingRegular readers of this blog will know that generally I’m not a fan of “X things” type posts – and so I’m aware I’m setting myself up for a fall here. However I’m in a big rush between lots of client work, and so I wanted to get this post out quickly. Hence the abbreviated [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonTeradata finished 2010 with an acquisition by snapping up privately owned Aprimo, a provider of marketing management software, for $525 million in cash. The acquisition demonstrates Teradata’s desire to broaden its analytic application capabilities, whilst also being able to complement and enhance its market leading (and mature) enterprise data warehousing (EDW) platform. Teradata snags a [...]
Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011 by Helena SchwenkYesterday, Salesforce.com announced that it had completed its acquisition of web conferencing vendor DimDim for $31 million in cash (net of cash acquired). The company intends to build DimDim’s feature set into its Chatter product (prioritising presence, instant messaging/chat and screensharing, it would seem), helping to build out its collaboration software credentials and, in Salesforce.com [...]
Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenSocialtext Announces New Yammer Migration Service Socialtext gets the knives out in the battle for enterprise microblogging, just as Yammer starts to broaden its platform into more of a Facebook-for-the-enterprise than a Twitter-for-the-enterprise. From a purely marketing perspective though, I question how long Socialtext can continue playing the "first company in the enterprise social software [...]
Posted on Friday, January 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenSo, another year lies before us and opportunity flirts with us as we consider the decisions and choices that we’ll be making. Our philosophy is that an informed decision is a good one, so in that spirit we’d like to share with you three free Outlook reports for Analytics and Information Management, BPM and Collaboration. [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 by Beth Barling
