Last week I attended SAP TechEd in Berlin, the business application vendor’s premier European developer conference. During an event packed with NetWeaver 7.3 announcements, SAP chose to highlight its on-going commitment to in-memory computing with HANA, its High-performance Analytic Appliance. This version of HANA is designed to enable faster ways to process data from business [...]
Posted on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 by Helena SchwenkLast 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 SchwenkThis week IBM announced its agreement to acquire Netezza, a leading provider of data warehousing appliances, for $1.7 billion. The deal equates to $27 per share paid for in cash and represents a 9.8% premium over its closing price on Friday. The acquisition is a good move by IBM: by buying one of the pioneers [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by Helena SchwenkOracle recently announced two new products as part of its Data Integration Suite: Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition (ODI) 11g and Oracle GoldenGate 11g. The announcement not only aligns the company’s data integration tools under the 11g banner but demonstrates it is continuing to deliver on its strategy of building a heterogeneous data integration platform [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Helena SchwenkIt’s been a couple of weeks since IBM announced it wanted to buy marketing automation software provider Unica for $480 million. Coincidentally it just so happens that it’s been a little over two weeks since I joined MWD and so has come the perfect opportunity to put some of my thoughts down on paper and [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Helena SchwenkDespite Novell’s long history in the collaboration software market through its trusty email platform GroupWise, the company has been largely forgotten as an enterprise collaboration software player over the last few years. Those closer to the company may have been aware of the launch of two new collaboration products back in 2007 – a team [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 by Angela AshendenI read a smart piece by Nimbus’ Ian Gotts the other day (“Putting the M back into BPM” [PDF at BPtrends.com]) and it made me think. You see, the argument about whether “BPM means automation” often seems to be framed as a binary choice: either processes are automated, or they aren’t. I don’t think this [...]
Posted on Friday, June 4, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonAs I mentioned in our 2009 report SAP’s BPM play, “SAP’s BPM play both opens new process improvement territory up for SAP to work on, and also helps SAP protect its position as a supplier in the face of other vendors with BPM technology offerings who threaten to make the value of its applications more [...]
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonAt its TUCON customer event this week TIBCO announced a new BPM technology platform, ActiveMatrix BPM. As usual Sandy Kemsley has a detailed blow-by-blow account of the event – I won’t attempt to replicate it! ActiveMatrix BPM is the fruit of a couple of years’ hectic behind-the-scenes engineering work by TIBCO. It builds on TIBCO’s [...]
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonWithin a day of each other, specialist BPM technology vendors Appian and Active Endpoints earlier this week both announced continuing strong market momentum. Appian highlighted the growth of customer orders by 58% from Q4 2009 to Q1 2010 (and this isn’t a seasonal thing with Appian; in 2008 its Q4 was its largest quarter). Active [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 8, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
