Since the launch of Google Apps Premium Edition (now called Google Apps for Business) in 2007, Google has been blazing a trail in the SaaS-based enterprise collaboration market focusing on making small, regular software updates, in place of the more traditional 12 month+ release cycles which we are used to with on-premise software. However, for many large organisations, this approach is simply too “realtime”, and doesn’t give them the opportunity they need to manage and prepare for the introduction of such new features, particularly when they are released on a weekly basis…
Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Angela AshendenIGLOO Software Achieves Record Growth in 2010 – IGLOO Software – Social Software for Business Some encouraging news from Igloo which escaped my attention last month, highlighting 120% revenue growth over the last year. While it is one of the many small vendors targeting the online communities market, Igloo is clearly starting to build some [...]
Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Angela AshendenLast year, I was doing some research on the current state of support for BPM initiatives within the consulting / systems integration (CSI) community – looking particularly at the larger players (Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini and so on). I’d come across a number of cases where BPM projects had turned out to be tougher than they [...]
Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonLast week Teradata announced its intention to acquire Aster Data for $263 million. This equates to 89% ownership of Aster Data; Teradata acquired an earlier 11% ownership interest back in September last year. The deal, which is expected to close some time in the second quarter, is designed to give Teradata a firmer foothold in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Helena SchwenkA few weeks ago I was talking to an experienced journalist about BPM – and he was pretty ticked off with the topic. He was complaining that he felt he’d been tricked by vendors and analysts into writing pieces about how the “year of BPM” was upon us a number of times, and he just [...]
Posted on Thursday, March 3, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
