In the last few weeks we’ve published a series of short profile reports that explore the current offerings and strategy regarding delivering BPM capabilities through cloud-based services from a selection of BPM vendors. The reports form a series focused on offerings from the vendor community actively offering cloud-based BPM capabilities, and are designed to act [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Beth BarlingEarlier today Amazon announced the launch of its Simple Workflow service (SWF) in beta. The announcement (and the attendant – and detailed – blog) explain that Amazon Simple Workflow coordinates the flow of synchronous or asynchronous tasks (logical application steps) so that you can focus on your business and your application instead of having to [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 by Neil Ward-Dutton‘BPM in the cloud’ is one of the key themes of our 2012 BPM industry research programme, and as a part of that we’ve just published a short online survey that’s designed to help us quickly take the pulse of what’s going on in this area. From my conversations with some of the principal providers [...]
Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonBirst is a multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), and analytics for both public and private cloud deployments. Today we published this On the Radar briefing note that follows a simple “ten questions” format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and [...]
Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 by adminYesterday, my colleague Helena Schwenk and I attended Cloudforce London 2011, Salesforce.com’s regional customer and partner event. While a much smaller affair than the company’s main San Francisco conference, the London event has become increasingly popular – with demand for attendance meaning that it had to extend to a second day (today) this year, as [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Angela AshendenYou may remember back in July we carried out an online survey into the experiences and perceptions of organisations into cloud email. I’m pleased to announce that we have just published the results from the survey, in our new Market Insight report Perceptions and reality: the truths of cloud email. 56 organisations took part, almost [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 by Angela AshendenLast 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-DuttonLast month Actuate unleashed a slew of products announcements that are wrapped up an umbrella brand ActuateOne – a unified product suite for developing and deploying reporting, analytic and dashboard applications. The suite leverages the open source Eclipse project, BIRT, and utilises the core capabilities of Actuate 11, the company’s commercial BI offering for large [...]
Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 by Helena SchwenkI was (very slowly) getting wound up to splurge an in-depth post on Google’s partnership with VMware around the Google App Engine, but then I read William Vambenepe’s blog: From VMWare + SalesForce.com (VMForce) to VMWare + Google: VMWare’s PaaS milestones. I think he’s done a lot of the work for me… What I will [...]
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
