Just before Christmas, TIBCO released its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results for 2011 (the intervening holiday is why I haven’t blogged about it until now). While companies like Oracle struggle to deliver performance, TIBCO continues to march relentlessly on. And although it’s perhaps tempting (certainly in comparison to behemoths like Oracle) to paint TIBCO as [...]
Posted on Friday, January 6, 2012 by Neil Ward-DuttonIn October at Openworld, Oracle announced the release of its new social collaboration platform, Oracle Social Network (OSN), with a (rather awkward) demo of the product by Larry Ellison. Yesterday, I finally got the chance to look a little bit closer at the product, and I have to say that I was rather impressed by [...]
Posted on Friday, December 16, 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 SchwenkI’ve had some research into the role that systems integrators and consultants play in BPM initiatives as a priority for quite a while now, but most of my interactions until now have been with small specialist firms (the kind of firms that also, until recently, have really made most of the running as value delivery [...]
Posted on Thursday, September 22, 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 AshendenOracle 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 introduce [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Helena SchwenkUncategorized
Earlier this year IBM (and reportedly) HP both took Sun Microsystems out for first dates but neither decided to take things any further (though IBM arguably got to second base). Now it seems Oracle is prepared to go the whole way with the iconic dot.com technology brand. Are we looking at a beautiful wedding on [...]
Posted on Monday, April 20, 2009 by adminUncategorized
Yesterday EMC, IBM, and Microsoft jointly announced Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) – a new specification designed to enable interoperability between content management repositories. The proposed standard, which was also being submitted to the open standards consortium OASIS yesterday, will create a common interface for accessing content stored in compliant repositories, simplifying the process of [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 by adminUncategorized
As part of yesterday’s release of the latest iteration of its webMethods Insight product Software AG announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software. This announcement adds the Actional runtime SOA management and monitoring technology (which Progress acquired back in January 2006) to Software AG’s existing Centrasite design-time governance capabilities (which were bolstered by the acquisition [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 by admin
