If you’re a BPM professional, here’s something you won’t want to miss. This morning we launched a brand new MWD Insights event on the topic of Adaptive Case Management, heralded by some as a new, more dynamic and flexible approach to business process management. Much of the current commentary on the topic pitches ACM and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 by Beth BarlingYesterday, Box.net announced the completion of a Series D funding round which raised an impressive $81 million from investors including Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth. This figure is added to the $48 million funding announced by Box earlier in the year, and highlights the buoyant position [...]
Posted on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 by Angela AshendenEarlier this week I had an interesting call with VMware’s CTO of SaaS and Application Services, Javier Soltero, to find out the thinking behind its acquisition of microblogging vendor, Socialcast, in May this year. As a collaboration analyst, I have not had any real contact with VMware up until now – at least, apart from [...]
Posted on Friday, October 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenOracle started the Openworld conference this week by announcing the launch of Oracle Exalytics BI machine, an in-memory analytics appliance. Exalytics marks the next permutation in a line of appliances that includes Exadata for data warehousing and Exalogic for cloud computing. But it also marks Oracle’ s biggest foray into in-memory analytics designed to significantly [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Helena SchwenkIn the quest for ever more ‘business meaningful messaging’, I’ve noticed that the concept of ‘business agility’ has become ever more commonly deployed by software and hardware vendors. There’s nothing at all wrong with business agility as an aspirational goal, of course: no business wants to be seen to be clumsy. What I have a [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonThe week after Progress’ Revolution customer event in Boston, I spent a few days in Vegas courtesy of TIBCO at its annual TUCON customer shindig. At one level, there are some interesting parallels to draw between Progress and TIBCO*: both vendors are ‘independent’ infrastructure software providers; both are currently pitching visions of responsiveness to their [...]
Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Neil Ward-Dutton
