Yesterday a flurry of tweets trumpeted the news: open-source BPM technology provider Bonitasoft had secured $11m of B-series funding in a round led by existing investors Auriga Partners and Ventech, together with Serena Capital. Bonitasoft has already impressed me with its focus and ability to deliver rapidly, including some nice user interface innovations – as [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 by Neil Ward-DuttonWith 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-DuttonA 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-DuttonLast week, Oracle announced the release of two new office productivity suite offerings designed to compete head on with Microsoft Office and Google Docs in the enterprise market. Oracle Open Office 3.3 is the latest update to Oracle’s own version of the open source, on-premise software that it acquired as part of its purchase of [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 23, 2010 by Angela AshendenLast 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 SchwenkA few weeks back I highlighted that we’d just started running the first in a series of short polls in conjunction with CIO UK (part of the international network of CIO magazines) – with a poll focused on how CIOs expect their spending to change in 2009, given the current economic climate. The first poll [...]
Posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 by adminThat’s the title of a short online poll that we’re now running, in conjunction with CIO.co.uk – the online presence of CIO Magazine in the UK (the sister of the “big brother” CIO Magazine in the US). If you’re in a senior IT management role, we’d really like to hear about how the economic situation [...]
Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by adminUncategorized
A few days ago Matt Asay wrote a piece on Linux’s use on Wall Street in his “Open Road” blog. He recounted how one of the MDs from Bank of New York Mellon saw “open source as the foundation of choice for their innovation”. He goes on to say that this runs counter to prevailing [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 by admin
