A couple of days ago I had an update call with Mindjet, the company that is best known for its mind mapping client application, Mind Manager. Historically, I’ve always found it slightly awkward to position the company in the broader collaboration software market that I follow, largely because, while Mind Manager is a productivity tool, [...]
Posted on Friday, December 16, 2011 by Angela AshendenOver the past few days a very timely discussion has been sloshing to and fro on ebizQ, based around the question: “Is it a mistake to think a BPMS will improve your processes?” Our experience is that driving success with BPM techniques and technologies requires a holistic approach to capability improvement – you have to [...]
Posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonToday document capture specialist Kofax announced its acquisition of UK-based BPM and case management technology vendor Singularity. This comes on the heels of Lexmark’s acquisition of Dutch BPM technology vendor Pallas Athena – another vendor focused on imaging and document management applications moving ‘sideways’ to capture potential customer interest in broader process improvement projects. In [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonYesterday I was briefed by Salesforce.com on their latest SaaS-based product in the collaboration space, Do.com. A result of their acquisition of Manymoon back in February, Do.com is a social project collaboration tool for small groups of up to 15 people, providing features such as task management, notes and discussions. Do.com is still currently in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 by Angela AshendenProgress Software announced today its acquisition of Corticon, the last remaining pure-play business rules management (BRM) technology provider of any size. Terms were not disclosed, but the company had recently been on a strong growth path – so it’s likely Progress paid a significant premium [we'll probably never know, of course]. Progress is pitching Corticon [...]
Posted on Monday, December 5, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonAs we reach the end of 2011, the time comes for us MWD analysts to look ahead and offer our perspectives on what 2012 will bring for our research areas. To briefly reflect on the year that has passed, it has been – as we anticipated – a big year for collaboration, with “social” being [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Angela AshendenIn last year’s BPM outlook, we predicted that 2011 would be a year when the progress of BPM into mainstream industry adoption would continue apace – and that has certainly come to pass. We also highlighted that we expected a very large proportion of BPM project interest to come from business areas focused on customer [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonIn our 2011 Outlook we predicted that investment in Analytics and Information Management (AIM) technologies would remain strong despite the challenging economic backdrop as companies looked to sweat their enterprise data to help support key operational and strategic business initiatives. Not surprisingly given the continuing economic uncertainty we expect this trend to continue into 2012, [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 1, 2011 by Helena SchwenkThis post was written with additional insights from Angela Ashenden, MWD’s lead Collaboration analyst – thanks Angela! Yesterday I came across this really thorough post on the Enterprise 2.0 blog by Cecil Dijoux, trying to pick apart the current state of play regarding the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 concepts and see what can be learned [...]
Posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonSAP HANA, the company’s in-memory appliance, took top billing and once again dominated the keynote sessions at SAP’s premier business event, SAPPHIRE Now . This year in Madrid the company announced, amongst other enhancements, a version of HANA that runs SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP BW), enabling users to tap into the high speed loading [...]
Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 by Helena Schwenk
