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SAP announced the broad market success of the SAP Business One application, addressing small enterprise preferences for minimal up-front cost and lower IT operations.
New Case Study on Two Degrees Mobile Highlights Role of WSO2 ESB and Other WSO2 Middleware Products in Delivering Innovative Mobile Services
Active Endpoints, Inc. (www.activevos.com), the process automation company, today announced a partnership with Qvantel Oy, a Finnish company with operations in Finland, Sweden and India.
usiness process management (BPM) delivers significant benefits to organizations, but some organizations have faced many problems due to wrong turns along the way, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have identified five BPM threats BPI (business process improvement) leaders need to be mindful of as organizations progress on their BPM initiatives.
Real Time Innovations’ new Connext middleware applications allow hospitals to connect health-monitoring data with electronic health records.
GRIDSOLUT Expertise in BPM, SOA and Local Market Requirements Will Support Growing Base of WSO2 Customers in Germany with IT Solutions for On-premise and the Cloud
Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and software for customer centricity, today announced significant enhancements to the company’s Customer Process Manager™ (CPM) customer service solution that enables organizations to deliver exceptional customer service anywhere, extending service to every customer channel, including via mobile devices and social media.
They improve their time to market by 38% and recover the technology investment in 3 months and a half. Pastas Gallo, leader in the Spanish food products industry, has relied on the Polymita BPM platform to improve and automate its process of creating and launching new products, achieving a 38% increase in productivity through the time to market.
Casewise Systems, a leading software and solutions company, today has announced the launch of a new enterprise business architecture solution, Casewise Small Business Offering (SBO) to support the needs of small businesses that want to better understand their current and future state organization, analyze and plan for the impact of change and disseminate insights to key stakeholders.
More enterprises are seeking storage in the cloud as they rapidly fill up their on-premise storage and as the cloud storage providers become more secure, reliable, and cost competitive. AWS is typically first on business buyers’ lists. In fact, I’m finding that more and more ask only for AWS; others are not even considered.
An integrated business process-management software suite can be used to enable concurrent workflows, which increases the speed at which work items can be processed within a business, says Ovations business development manager Craig Leppan.
Fujitsu today announced the immediate availability of Interstage Business Operations Platform V12.0, a business process management solution that can quickly integrate a company’s cloud services and multiple on-premise business systems.
Twitter CEO Dic Costolo answered critics of the company’s new policy regarding tweet-blocking — or censorship, as critics contend — by insisting Twitter has no choice but to abide by other countries’ laws. “It is a cop out,” said marketing professor Daniel Ladik. “Twitter is acquiescing without even much of a fight when it should be leading the charge.”
BP Logix, a developer of BPM software that accelerates time-to-value, today announced that MultiPlan, provider of a comprehensive suite of transaction-based healthcare cost management services, has selected Process Director/Cloud Edition to centralize its capital expenditure (CapEx) and Major Expenditure Request (MER) processes. The selection of Process Director was made by executives in both Finance and IT, making the decision to acquire the product both a business and an IT decision.
Enterprise middleware player WSO2 has readied its StratosLive Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for market on the Google Apps Marketplace this month
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced an updated release of the ManageEngine Applications Manager performance monitoring software package. Applications Manager 10.2 extends single-pane-of-glass monitoring support to both Oracle JRockit and IBM Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environments.
WSO2 Workshops Will Provide IT Professionals with Hands-on Experience in Applying Governance Best Practices Using WSO2 Stratos and WSO2 Governance Registry
The Open Group today announced the availability of two new industry standards that enable businesses to effectively integrate fundamental elements of SOA and Cloud Computing into a solution or Enterprise Architecture.
It’s not clear whether Facebook’s outing of members of the Koobface gang will pressure them to stop flooding the Web with malware or merely add to their notoriety. Authorities in Russia, where the gang is headquartered, haven’t displayed much interest in their capture. “The unfortunate reality is that Koobface will continue to wreak havoc,” predicted security expert John Viega.
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced the inclusion of automated device end-of-life (EOL) management services in DeviceExpert, the company’s network configuration and change management (NCCM) solution. Automated EOL management – a first in the industry – helps network administrators improve device lifecycle management and ensure that network devices comply with corporate policies.
Now that Android has “taken the world by storm,” as AppsGeyser VP Eduardo Robles put it, Google apparently wants to tame the beast. It has launched a style guide — Android Design — in the hope of reining in app devs and encouraging a more uniform look and feel for Android products. “It’s only natural to bring out a tool like [Android Design] right now,” said Robles.
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today previewed product line enhancements to ensure broad IT management of Cisco infrastructure in SMBs and emerging enterprise organizations.
Oracle is set on Tuesday to release 78 security fixes for vulnerabilities in its database, middleware and applications, according to a preview announcement posted to the company’s website this week.
Zebra Technologies Corporation, a recognized global leader in technologies that extend real-time visibility into business operations, and Checkpoint Systems today announced they have entered into a cooperative relationship and licensing agreement. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Maybe the Internet won’t exactly fry your brain, but it could change it in other unwelcome ways. A new study found a correlation between Internet addiction and specific brain changes often observed in alcoholics and drug addicts. There was evidence of disruption to the connections in the nerve fibers that connect brain areas involved in emotions, decision making and self-control.
When Tammy Finch started her Web-Tech business 13 years ago, the online world was a far cry from the one that exists today. “It was really different then. There was no Google. When you put a website up, people could find you very easily,” she said. Now some businesses are even forgoing websites altogether in favor of a presence on Facebook, said Finch.
There’s speculation and scuttlebutt that cloud computing juggernaut Amazon is pondering fluffing up a big data crunching service as part of its Amazon Web Services subsidiary.
Usage of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 Web browser has dipped below 1 percent in the U.S., according to Net Applications’ figures, and Microsoft couldn’t be happier. The ancient browser, which long ago crossed the line into obsolescence, had been kept alive by users and enterprises who wouldn’t or couldn’t upgrade. Newer browsers automate the upgrade process.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Green Hat, a leader in software quality and testing solutions for the cloud and other environments. Financial terms were not disclosed.
This year, telephony stopped being a separate solution for some companies and, in the near future, is likely to be part of a larger communications and collaboration strategy for more and more organizations. This is enabled by Internet Protocol (IP)-based systems, and a general commodification of telephony services, and ongoing adoption of Unified Communications (UC).
