Inside the Briefcase


Facebook Gives Users One More Way to Get Into Each Others’ Worlds

Facebook Gives Users One More Way to Get Into Each Others’ Worlds

Tweet Facebook’s announcement of video chat integration with Skype might have been a tad more “awesome” if Google hadn’t scooped it with the debut of its new Google+ social network, which comes with a video chat feature called “Hangouts.”...

Integrating People, Processes and Systems: Tools and Best Practices for IT Teams

Integrating People, Processes and Systems: Tools and Best Practices for IT Teams

Learn the most important practices you should look to implement to get the most out of your SOA and BPM investments.

Secure Processing in the Mobile Age

Secure Processing in the Mobile Age

Movement towards the mobile enterprise is gaining momentum based on the clear business value afforded by better leveraging today’s increasingly disconnected and on-the-go workforce.

Will IBM Go ‘All In’ On Cloud Computing?

Will IBM Go ‘All In’ On Cloud Computing?

IBM has spent $14 billion in just the last five years acquiring analytics and optimization software companies that are vital to its Smarter Planet initiative. It has also talked up the growth and importance of cloud computing.





Briefcase Highlights


APPLICATION INTEGRATION

Wipro Tech launches ‘Wipro Easy-Upgrade’ solution for Oracle E-Business Suit

July 26, 2011 No Comments

Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Limited has announced the launch of its proprietary ‘Wipro Easy-Upgrade’ solution for Oracle E-Business Suite, which can enable complete assessment, implementation and management of Oracle Applications.

IBM’s Unsexy Secret To Profits: Middleware

July 26, 2011 No Comments

IBM’s Unsexy Secret To Profits: Middleware

6 Reasons SaaS May Mean A Return To Silos

July 25, 2011 No Comments

Application integration has always been a thorny problem. Add in the inherent design restrictions of software as a service–think islands, not exactly designed to exchange data–and things get even trickier. Fortunately, there are some products and best practices that can make your apps work together.

Homeloans Management Ltd Calls on IBM Business Process Management Solution to Minimise Risk in Credit Management

July 22, 2011 No Comments

IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that Homeloans Management Limited (HML) is using IBM Software to improve business processes across its credit management, call centre and for all customer mortgages.

Google Shuts Down Its Lab Projects

July 21, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Google has shuttered its Google Labs project, the birthplace of products like Gmail and Google Docs. While those services will remain intact, Google has opted to shift into a more focused style of product development. The focus on solid developments closer to Google’s core is one that new CEO Larry Page has stuck to […]

KVH Selects Progress Software for Improved Business Performance in Japan

July 20, 2011 No Comments

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, announced today that Japanese integrated communications and IT management solutions provider, KVH Co., Ltd., has selected the Progress Responsive Process Management® (RPM) suite, the Progress® Communications Order Management (COM) solution accelerator, and the Progress Responsive Business Integration (RBI) solution to dramatically improve visibility and control across their operations, accelerating delivery of service to customers and bring new and existing bundled services to market faster across different business teams and multiple, disparate B/OSS platforms

Is Microsoft Getting Into Social Networking?

July 19, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Anyone who happened to stumble onto the URL Socl.com during a short period last week caught a glimpse of a landing page for a service called “Tulalip.” Tulalip appears to be a social or sharing site of some sort, though the landing page has since been taken down. Apparently the URL is owned by […]

OpenText Metastorm Releases New BPM, Smart Business Workspace and Business Performance Intelligence Dashboards

July 14, 2011 No Comments

OpenText’s (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) Metastorm business, a leading provider of business process management (BPM), business process analysis (BPA), and enterprise architecture (EA) software for business transformation, today announced the release of Version 9.1 of the Metastorm BPM® software suite, Version 9.0 of Metastorm Smart Business Workspace and Metastorm’s new Business Performance Intelligence Dashboards.

OpenText Acquires Global 360

July 14, 2011 No Comments

OpenText announced today it has acquired Global 360 Holding Corporation, a leading provider of process and case management solutions. The acquisition continues OpenText’s expansion into the fast growing business process management (BPM) market, adding to its technology, talent, services, partner and geographical strengths, as well as giving the company important new capabilities in dynamic case management.

TOYOTA Spain Implements Its GEA-TOYOTA System Based on AuraPortal

July 14, 2011 No Comments

AuraPortal (www.auraportal.com), a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM), has announced that the specialized Consultant, and AuraPortal Partner, AUREN, has implemented an environmental system at TOYOTA SPAIN based on AuraPortal’s BPM Suite, which will allow them to improve their environmental practices throughout their entire Spanish dealer network.

Amazon opens Australian office

July 14, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Global cloud computing and retail giant Amazon today told customers it had opened an Australian office with dedicated local staff to service the cloud computing market, as speculation continues to swirl that the company will also establish a new local datacentre facility to meet customer demand. The company’s Asia-Pacific managing director of its Web […]

Facebook Gives Users One More Way to Get Into Each Others’ Worlds

July 8, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Facebook’s announcement of video chat integration with Skype might have been a tad more “awesome” if Google hadn’t scooped it with the debut of its new Google+ social network, which comes with a video chat feature called “Hangouts.” A service like Google+ Hangouts seems to have more potential for advertisers, said Dan Shust, executive […]

The University of Adelaide Deploys Oracle SOA Suite 11g

July 7, 2011 No Comments

Looking to transform its IT infrastructure, the University of Adelaide has deployed Oracle (News – Alert) SOA Suite 11g and Oracle WebLogic Server 11g.

Integrating People, Processes and Systems: Tools and Best Practices for IT Teams

July 7, 2011 No Comments

Learn the most important practices you should look to implement to get the most out of your SOA and BPM investments.

Intalio Completes Financing to Advance Its Private Cloud Business Applications

July 7, 2011 No Comments

Intalio, Inc., the leader in private cloud applications, today announced a new round of venture financing that will enable the company to build out its portfolio of applications for enterprise private clouds. This latest round of investment adds VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, to its roster of investors. Intalio delivers an integrated solution that can be deployed on any cloud, and includes applications for Business Process Management (BPM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Enterprise Content Management (ECM), as well as online development tools. Intalio earned Best of VMworld honors in 2009 for Cloud Computing

Google unveils Google Engage in SA

July 6, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Internet group Google on Tuesday unveiled Google Engage, a new partner programme to support South African web professionals who provide services to small and medium businesses. The group recently launched Google +, its new social network to rival social network darling Facebook. Through Google Engage, advertising agencies, webmasters, search engine marketers or anyone else […]

Singularity TotalAgility v5.2 – Process Anywhere: Introducing Mobile and Facebook Applications

July 5, 2011 No Comments

Today businesses and employees expect to be able to choose from a variety of on premise and mobile applications in order to get their work done. Using TotalAgility web forms or via its integration with SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and Outlook, Singularity’s approach has always been agnostic, delivering BPM and Case Management participation where employees prefer to do their work.

Google Enters the Ring for Social Smackdown, Round 2

June 29, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Last year, Google took a swipe at the social networking scene by launching Buzz, which was quickly burned to a crisp by critics who blasted its apparently lax privacy protections. Now the search engine leader has returned with Google+, its latest attempt to break into the social scene. Challenging a rival the size of […]

Google Axes Health Service Due to Feeble Response

June 29, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Google Health, the search giant’s online database where users can upload and manage their medical information, is being shut down. Google says it’s failed to draw widespread adoption and will be phased out, disappearing completely on the first day of 2013. Rival services, some of which focus entirely on online health records, may have […]

Secure Processing in the Mobile Age

June 29, 2011 No Comments

Movement towards the mobile enterprise is gaining momentum based on the clear business value afforded by better leveraging today’s increasingly disconnected and on-the-go workforce.

WS02 Updates Middleware Servers

June 28, 2011 No Comments

Enterprise middleware vendor WS02 updated its Carbon Core Framework last week, including a new message broker and Complex Event Processing (CEP) server.

SOA Software Achieves a Gold Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network

June 27, 2011 No Comments

SOA Software, a leading SOA and Cloud Services Governance provider, today announced it has achieved a Gold Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/Software Competency in the Microsoft Partner Network.

OpenText Metastorm Named a Leader in 2011 IDC MarketScape: Business Process (BP) Platforms Report

June 27, 2011 No Comments

OpenText’s (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC) Metastorm business, a leading provider of business process management (BPM), business process analysis (BPA), and enterprise architecture (EA) software for business transformation, today announced that it has been recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Business Process (BP) Platforms Report.

Model-Based Integration Testing for SAP® ERP Based on BPMN Standard

June 27, 2011 No Comments

TransWare Software Solutions AG, the innovative provider of SAP® application lifecycle software solutions announces the availability of the Model-based Integration Testing for SAP® for SAP Solution Manager and HP Quality Center.

Facebook Shouldn’t Wall Off Minors

June 24, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Kids need to be clear that logging on to services like Facebook is like walking into a public place — you can find people you know, you can see others you don’t know, and there are many whom you do not want to know. This is a basic and important lesson to learn. Regulators […]

Global 360 Wins two Microsoft Partner Awards For ISV Software Industry and Visio Solutions

June 24, 2011 No Comments

Global 360, a leading provider of process and case management solutions, announced that three of the company’s adaptive case management (ACM) experts will be sharing their insights with over 500 registered attendees during the first ever ACMLive Virtual Summit on June 22-23, 2011.

Serena Software Releases Survey Findings on Enterprise ALM Adoption

June 23, 2011 No Comments

Serena Software, the leader in orchestrated application delivery, IT and business processes, today announced the results of a new global survey on enterprise application lifecycle management (ALM) adoption.

Active Endpoints Announces ActiveVOS 9.0 and New Data Center Edition

June 23, 2011 No Comments

Active Endpoints, Inc., the process automation company, today announced the general availability of ActiveVOS 9.0 Enterprise Edition and a new Data Center Edition. These latest releases deliver a highly scalable and secure SOA-based business process management (BPM) system that supports multi-tenant virtual partitioning and resource sharing, multi-site clustering for large IT organizations to deploy private clouds and enables software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers to deploy more cost-effective public clouds.

Will IBM Go ‘All In’ On Cloud Computing?

June 22, 2011 No Comments

IBM has spent $14 billion in just the last five years acquiring analytics and optimization software companies that are vital to its Smarter Planet initiative. It has also talked up the growth and importance of cloud computing.

TIBCO Named SOA Governance Market Share Leader by Independent Research Firm

June 22, 2011 No Comments

TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that it has been identified as leader in the SOA Governance segment, by market share for 2010, in Gartner Inc.’s “Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2010.

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