With its recent focus on Business Process Excellence following its acquisition of IDS Scheer, it’s perhaps easy to forget that Software AG still has a healthy business as an integration middleware provider. The purchase of Terracotta, announced May 23, doesn’t immediately stand out as a great fit for a company that pitches itself as helping [...]
Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday, Palo Alto, CA-based online communities vendor Jive Software announced its acquisition of OffiSync, a vendor of Microsoft Office extension plug-ins, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition comes hot on the heels of another acquisition by Jive of Proximal Labs in April, and the company also made a third acquisition in January last year, of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by Angela AshendenLast week Sybase held its annual analyst event in the heart of New York’s financial district at the New York Stock Exchange. The event provided a useful forum in which to assess the company’s progress since being acquired by SAP in July last year but also gave an opportunity to catch-up on developments with Sybase [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 by Helena SchwenkLast week I made my annual 24-hour flying visit to the US east coast and the Progress Software analyst day. Last year CEO Rick Reidy laid out plans to create a $1billion company by bringing together a number of its brands (particularly Savvion, Actional, Apama) together under the concept of ‘Operational Responsiveness’ through ‘Responsive Process [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonA few weeks ago I was given a hush-hush pre-briefing on a new product offering from Active Endpoints called Cloud Extend for Salesforce.com. It takes the BPM and SOA technology provider into new territory, but I think it’s a sensible move – and one that prefigures a broader trend I think we’ll be seeing a [...]
Posted on Monday, May 9, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonMicrosoft tries well worn 'tax' argument vs. Google Apps: Here's the real deal | ZDNet Nice article from ZDNet which points out that for many large organisations it's never going to be an either/or decision when it comes to cloud vs. on-premise, and that there is a risk of lock-in whichever route you take. I [...]
Posted on Saturday, May 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenFor most organisations, email remains the primary tool for enabling online collaboration, to the extent where we use it not just for messaging, but also for group discussions, document collaboration and managing tasks, among other things. However, despite our dependence on email, there is a growing sense that we are spending too much on managing [...]
Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 by Angela AshendenA few weeks ago I got an update briefing from Brian Reale, CEO of Colosa – the company behind the open source ProcessMaker BPMS tool. Colosa has recently entered into a partnership with open source BI provider Pentaho, with the aim of providing commercial customers with pre-integrated BI tooling for process reporting and analytics functionality. [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
