May 9, 2012
Time is a critical element of the planning, oversight, and improvement of business processes. However, business process management (BPM) solutions have traditionally focused on other aspects of the BPM challenge, such as quality and governance. Time represents a vital third dimension, enabling business users to gain additional control over their processes and creating the opportunity to predict how later stages in the process will be affected by changes introduced in the earlier stages.
May 9, 2012
The state of Nevada has granted Google an official license to test out its fleet of self-driving cars on the state’s public roadways. The autonomous autos are able to drive and steer themselves, but humans are still required for now. In fact, two people must be riding in the car’s front seats whenever the vehicle hits the road.
May 8, 2012
Aryaka, the world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization and application acceleration solution, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) LLC, an Amazon.com company and the leader in cloud computing /quotes/zigman/63011/quotes/nls/amzn AMZN -1.13% , today announced they have brought to market a solution that delivers a unified infrastructure for accessing global cloud and enterprise resources. Aryaka provides an optimized network that ensures IT application instances running on AWS behave as if they were on the local network with any-to-any connectivity, regardless of where end-users are located around the world.
May 7, 2012
Progress Software announced that Jyske Bank, one of Denmark’s largest independent banks, has deployed the Progress® Apama® FX Aggregation Solution Accelerator product to support its foreign exchange trading desk
May 2, 2012
Facebook may genuinely want to help facilitate organ donation through its new status update feature. However, the gesture is also likely to add more polish to the company’s image, which is always a good thing just prior to an IPO. The initiative “presents a friendly face to investors — retail investors, especially,” said David Johnson of Strategic Vision. “It can only help drive up the price of Facebook’s stock.”
April 30, 2012
After a great introductory session from Walter Isaacson (biographer of Einstein, Franklin and Jobs), we kicked off the main session at IBM’s largest IMPACT conference with over 8,500 attendees with a focus on re-thinking IT.
April 27, 2012
The Next Web Conference 2012 has kicked off with differing views on the Internet. Thursday morning’s speakers featured Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of Reddit; author Andrew Keen, whose upcoming book, Digital Vertigo, rails against the “cult of the social”; and Dagan Cohen, founder of Upload Cinema.
April 26, 2012
Facebook is making friends with a wide variety of top computer security companies in an effort to eradicate the malware that flows through the social network. It’s compiling the companies’ databases of malicious URLs in order to stop those links from spreading via its pages. It’s also offering free AV software to users.
April 24, 2012
After being fined a paltry amount for activities that involved snooping on people’s open WiFi networks, Google likely wants to put the episode behind it. But privacy advocates think justice has yet to be done, and some say Google’s wardriving activities may have given it an advantage over its competitors in the fields of search and advertising.
April 24, 2012
The Cloud brings all manner of challenges and opportunities to information managers. One the one hand, there’s great cost, broad functionality and ease of use; on the other hand, isn’t the Cloud just another giant SILO? At the very center of all the action is process. How can your organization effectively improve its business processes via Cloud integration? Register for this episode of DM Radio to find out! Hosts Eric Kavanagh and Jim Ericson will interview Clay Richardson of Forrester Research, plus Scott Menter of BP Logix, Matt Durham of Software AG, and Tom Cesere of NetIQ.
April 23, 2012
BP Logix, a developer of BPM software that accelerates time-to-value, today announced its growing success in providing banking institutions with a solution to optimize their processes. Stillwater National Bank and Trust Company (SNB) selected BP Logix Process Director to automate its loan credit and Accounting processes and automate more than 120 forms in use by employees across 28 locations. SNB turned to BPM to improve customer service, address compliance requirements and ensure a more efficient, cost-effective operation.
April 23, 2012
Despite rumours of its demise, or at the very least it’s description as a doddery old man who’s gotten lost after accidentally wandering out of the old folks home, there might be life in the old BPM dog yet.
April 23, 2012
Appian – one of the leading independent BPM technology specialist providers – used its annual customer conference earlier this week to significant effect: highlighting recent growth, giving customers and prospects opportunities to learn from each other, and unveiling its next major product release.
April 19, 2012
Tweet SOURCE: Oracle Redwood Shores, Calif. – April 19, 2012 News Facts ARC Advisory Group has named Oracle the leading supplier of supply chain planning (SCP) solutions in its report, “Supply Chain Planning Worldwide Outlook; Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2016.” (1) ARC Advisory Group adds that Oracle is “not only a market share leader, […]
April 18, 2012
Kofax plc (LSE: KFX), a leading provider of capture enabled business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced online research findings demonstrating that 35 percent of UK adults stopped using a business within the last year due to poor levels of customer service.
April 18, 2012
The long-rumored Google Drive, or GDrive, service has once again popped up on radar, this time courtesy of a report claiming the online storage service will be launched as soon as next week. Google’s cloud storage network will reportedly give users 5 GB of free storage. It would enter a crowded market, but Google’s many resources could help Drive be a contender.
April 17, 2012
Tweet SOURCE: Software AG This acquisition supports Software AG’s product strategy and complements existing integration technology Uniquely, Software AG customers will have a single, universal messaging middleware platform across the Enterprise, across the Cloud and to Mobile Apps This will provide the real-time streaming of critical data across the customers’ organization, their data centers and […]
April 17, 2012
Google cofounder Sergey Brin spoke out about his biggest concerns regarding the freedom and openness of the Internet during a recent interview. He named government censorship, overreach from entertainment companies anxious to eradicate piracy, and walled-off platforms as some of the Net’s biggest problems of the day.
April 16, 2012
In this webinar, you’ll learn how IBM® SPSS® Data Collection survey software can collect all these types of data – including unstructured data from open-ended survey questions and information from social media.
April 13, 2012
IBM says Gartner’s latest middleware market share report validates its development and acquisitions strategy in the space, while it also claims that it is taking market share from Oracle/Sun.
April 12, 2012
IBM (NYSE: IBM) recently introduced new software that helps companies build their own cloud computing platforms to deliver business benefits in a wide range of industries such as banking, insurance, retail and communications.
April 11, 2012
Google has once again revamped Chrome OS, the company’s computer operating system. Some users have categorized the changes as very minor, though others say they represent a complete turnaround for the operating system that makes the OS appear to more closely follow examples set by OS X and Windows.
April 5, 2012
BP Logix, developer of BPM software that accelerates time-to-value, today announced that it has been named to KMWorld’s 2012 list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management for the second consecutive year. Evaluated by a panel of experts including editors, analysts, system integrators and end-users, the acknowledgment is a result of the company’s contribution to knowledge management, specifically the functionality of its workflow software and flagship product, Process Director.
April 5, 2012
In the scheme of things, business process management (BPM) is still a newcomer. Sure, document processing, electronic forms, and other proto-BPM solutions have been around for a while. More recently, however, the synergistic coupling of these solutions, combining them with flexible workflow management and other useful features has produced today’s sophisticated BPM products. Even as BPM moves beyond early adopters into the mainstream market, however, many customers have just begun to scratch the surface of what is possible with today’s BPM solutions.
April 4, 2012
Bluespring Software, a leading provider of Business Process Innovation (BPI) technologies, announced the release of its new ProcessView™ Essential software for Microsoft (NADAQ: MSFT) Visio®. ProcessView Essential is a free add in that allows information workers, process owners and industrial engineers to easily model and measure performance of any business process described in Microsoft Visio.
April 3, 2012
Google Inc. is building a data center in Taiwan — its third in Asia after Hong Kong and Singapore — to meet the rapidly growing online demand across the region, the company said Tuesday.
March 26, 2012
CCC Information Services Inc. has selected an Oracle Fusion Middleware-based solution to help the company realize greater efficiency in its development environment and to deliver improved performance to its installed customer base of approximately 21,000 collision repair facilities, 350 insurance companies and a range of other claims industry participants.
March 21, 2012
Data. It’s everywhere. Pervasive. And bloody annoying to control.
March 15, 2012
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced its performance monitoring software package, Applications Manager, now supports VMware vFabric RabbitMQ™ server. The move extends the company’s single-pane-of-glass monitoring solution to include VMware’s enterprise messaging middleware.
March 12, 2012
Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and cloud-based business process management (BPM) software, and Centrum Systems, the Australia-based business process management specialists, today announced that they have partnered to bring fast deployment of high-value BPM solutions to companies of all sizes across the Austria/New Zealand (ANZ) region.
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