Last week ECM specialist OpenText completed its purchase of BPM and Enterprise Architecture tools vendor Metastorm for $182m. The deal was originally announced on Feb 2 and was expected to close by the end of March; OpenText has obviously received approval from Metastorm shareholders much more quickly than expected, likely because of the purchase price. [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonBarely a few weeks after declaring it would stop actively selling Neoview, its data warehousing platform, HP has announced plans to acquire Vertica– an analytic database vendor – for an undisclosed sum. The deal firmly places HP back within the analytic data management market and marks the first acquisition for Leo Apotheker since he took [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Helena SchwenkTomorrow (Feb 16) I’m going to be presenting a webinar on the above topic, courtesy of Active Endpoints. Having spent a fair amount of time talking to telecoms service providers over the past few years, the role of BPM has always been something I’ve been keen to promote to this community. Looking at the storm [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonOn Jan 25 we launched the fourth in our series of online, on-demand MWD Insights events: this one focused on the topic of Process Intelligence. The topic of Process Intelligence has received quite a lot of attention over the past couple of years, but we find that despite this, there’s still a lot of confusion [...]
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonThe very eagle-eyed among you might have noticed that a few days ago, this blog’s name changed. For five years or so, it’s been called ‘On IT-business alignment, and related things: now it’s simply called ‘MWD’s Insights blog’. So I guess two questions are: (1) why change it? and (2) why bother to write a [...]
Posted on Monday, February 7, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week I visited the rather warmer climes of Orlando, Florida, for IBM Lotus’ annual customer and partner event, Lotusphere. After two and a half days of sessions and 1-to-1′s, when pulling together my thoughts about the key messages from the event (both those actively presented and those implicitly received), my overriding impression was that [...]
Posted on Monday, February 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenMicrosoft and HP recently firmed up their commitment to the data warehouse and BI space by announcing a portfolio of appliances that pull together the infrastructure of HP with the information management and BI tools of Microsoft. At first glance this announcement might seem like Microsoft and HP are playing catch-up with others in the [...]
Posted on Friday, February 4, 2011 by Helena SchwenkOn Monday, with the official launch of Tibbr, enterprise integration specialist TIBCO joined the crowded market for enterprise social software tools. Although at first sight the launch of a social software platform by a vendor previously seen primarily as an IT infrastructure technology company might seem like an odd move: but as was pointed out [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by Angela Ashenden
