In this new report, Principal Analyst Angela Ashenden presents an On the Radar profile of bEcosystems, a small start-up vendor with operations in Europe and the US. The bEcosystems’ bCommunities service supports B2B project-based collaboration using software-as-a-service. This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple “ten questions” format, which we designed to provide a [...]
Posted on Monday, April 30, 2012 by adminIn recent years many BPM technology vendors have introduced cloud-based tools and platforms, eager to ensure that they don’t miss out on any opportunities generated by the broader wave of interest in cloud-based computing. This report is an analysis of an online survey conducted during March 2012 to explore organisations’ perceptions and experiences of using [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2012 by adminAs one of the newest entrants to the enterprise social software market, TIBCO tibbr leverages TIBCO’s credentials in enterprise integration and security to deliver an IT-friendly solution which brings together updates and notifications from people, processes and applications into a configurable, Twitter-like activity stream. This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by adminEarlier 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-DuttonDue to the success of its on-premise, client/server email solution, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft has come to dominate the enterprise email market in recent years. With the launch of Office 365 in 2011, the company is also now targeting the cloud email market, while offering customers the flexibility of a “hybrid” approach to [...]
Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 by adminBirst 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 adminAre you thinking of moving your email to the cloud? Or perhaps you have already made the switch? Whatever your position on cloud email – positive, negative or just interested – we’d like to invite you to take part in our Email in the Cloud web survey. The survey aims to find out organisations’ priorities [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2011 by Angela AshendenYesterday saw the long-anticipated launch of Microsoft Office 365, the company’s first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, and the replacement for its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). The product, which has been in public beta since April (and in private beta since November), includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online and Office Web Apps, as well [...]
Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 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-Dutton
