Inside the Briefcase


Choosing the Right BPM Solution for Your Organization

Choosing the Right BPM Solution for Your Organization

The need for improved business processes management (BPM) is driving many organizations to invest in collaboration and workflow solutions. Yet purchasing a new technology doesn’t automatically guarantee success.

The Four Myths of Business‐IT Collaboration in BPMS

The Four Myths of Business‐IT Collaboration in BPMS

Model-driven development is a necessity for business agility, and model-driven development requires business-IT collaboration. So, what’s the solution to enabling business-IT collaboration and creating more agile business processes?

Webcast: Royal Bank of Canada Strengthens Customer Loyalty Through Exceptional Web Experiences

This webcast will share vision, tips and examples on how Royal Bank of Canada partnered with IBM to create a "next-generation", differentiated web experience.





Briefcase Highlights


APPLICATION INTEGRATION

Progress Software Named a Leader in New IDC MarketScape Report for the Business Process Platforms Category

June 22, 2011 No Comments

Progress Software Corporation, a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced that International Data Corporation (IDC) has named the Progress(R) Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite a leader in its newly developed business process platform category

New FuseSource Packaged Services Enable Enterprises to Effectively Implement Applications Using Apache ServiceMix, Camel, ActiveMQ and CXF

June 21, 2011 No Comments

FuseSource™ Corp., the experts in open source integration and messaging, today unveiled a family of packaged services designed to provide enterprise IT departments, architects and software developers with the guidance they need to realize the full potential of Apache ServiceMix, Camel, ActiveMQ and CXF.

JavaScript Web Designers Can Now Easily Integrate with the Mainframe Using Ivory Service Architect

June 20, 2011 No Comments

GT Software, a global provider of mainframe integration and data access solutions, today announced that its flagship product, Ivory Service Architect, now supports JSON as an option for web service processing.

Opinion: It’s Time to Take IT Governance Seriously

June 20, 2011 No Comments

Whether we as an industry like to admit it or not, we have a problem when it comes to how IT is regarded in the boardroom and at the senior executive level of many New Zealand organisations. However, this is not an IT problem; this is an overall corporate governance issue and the consequence of failing to understand technology deployments at board level is significant.

Facebook Musters Spartan App Army

June 17, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Facebook is reportedly working on a project that would provide iPhone users with an array of rich Web-based applications, none of which are under the control of Apple’s App Store. Web-based apps were the only kind of applications available to the iPhone’s very first users; since then they’ve been edged out by native apps […]

GNAX Selects Acuo Technologies for Cloud Based Healthcare Image Storage Solution

June 16, 2011 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE: GNAX Global Net Access (GNAX), a leading healthcare technology service provider, announces a strategic relationship with Acuo Technologies to develop a cloud-based, vendor neutral archive (VNA) of medical images for healthcare providers. Medical Image Archiving is one of the latest healthcare solutions from GNAX which include second-tier application delivery, cloud hosting, managed backup […]

Progress Software and Activ Financial Introduce New Market Data Adapter for Apama Capital Markets Foundation

June 16, 2011 No Comments

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, and Activ Financial, a leader in low-latency technology and global distribution of market data, today announced the launch of a new Activ Financial Apama® Adapter™ for ActivFeed. With the new adapter, high frequency traders can now use the Progress® Apama® Capital Markets Foundation (CMF) to easily access rich market data through the adaptor across international equity and futures markets with low latency and with a simplified and extensible API.

Privacy Orgs Take Facebook Facial Face-off to FTC

June 15, 2011 No Comments

Tweet The Electronic Privacy Information Center is leading a group of privacy advocate groups in filing a complaint with the FTC over Facebook’s use of facial recognition technology. Facebook’s Tag Suggestions feature, which gained significant attention last week, automatically determines the identities of people in uploaded photos and suggests names the uploader can use to […]

Choosing the Right BPM Solution for Your Organization

June 14, 2011 No Comments

The need for improved business processes management (BPM) is driving many organizations to invest in collaboration and workflow solutions. Yet purchasing a new technology doesn’t automatically guarantee success.

Progress Software Launches Enhanced Market Surveillance and Monitoring Solution

June 14, 2011 No Comments

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced enhancements to its Progress® Market Surveillance and Monitoring solution. This new release provides compliance and market monitoring personnel significantly deeper insight into trade order flow and more control over investigations of abuse and operational incidents. Furthermore, it enables trading venues and brokers to rapidly modify real-time abuse detection scenarios, market monitoring scenarios and case management workflows so that they can keep abreast of regulatory changes, such as those required by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the US or the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID”) review in Europe.

Appian Wins Financial Services BPM Excellence Award

June 14, 2011 No Comments

Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and cloud-based business process management (BPM) software, today announced it has won the FSO Knowledge Xchange Excellence Award 2011 in the “Excellence in Business Process Management Solutions” category. The Appian BPM Suite was chosen based on the proven value it delivers to the financial services industry, and its innovative capabilities, including mobile BPM, cloud BPM and social BPM.

Facebook Facial Recognition Creeps Out Privacy Partisans

June 9, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Facebook has raised concerns among privacy proponents with Tag Suggestions, a new feature that uses facial recognition technology to connect names to faces in uploaded photos and suggest tags to the uploader. Aside from the general privacy worries the feature has spurred, it’s somewhat unclear just how long Facebook has had this feature in […]

Ativa Corretora Selects Progress Apama Capital Markets Platform Providing Clients With Competitive Advantage

June 9, 2011 No Comments

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced that Ativa Corretora, a Brazilian brokerage firm, has deployed the leading algorithmic trading solution — Progress® Apama® Capital Markets platform. The Apama platform will play a critical role in Ativa’s new electronic trading business, enabling it to rapidly build and continuously customize low latency algorithmic and high frequency trading strategies.

Talend Enables Unified Integration in the Cloud

June 8, 2011 No Comments

Talend, a global open source software leader, today announced Talend Cloud, its Cloud-enabled Integration Platform and the first comprehensive unified integration platform for the cloud and hybrid IT environments. An extension of the recently announced Unified Integration Platform, Talend Cloud offers elasticity, ubiquity, extensibility, security and reliability to those organizations looking to ensure the integrity of their integration processes, whether on-premise, in the cloud, via SaaS or in hybrid environments.

Pegasystems Releases New Version of Pega BPM

June 7, 2011 No Comments

To predict and act on customer needs, business users can now leverage a unified environment of BPM and business rules with advanced analytics. Company officials said that Pega BPM applications dynamically adapt to customer-facing business processes to optimize business outcomes.

Better Living – Anywhere on the Planet – Through Technology

June 7, 2011 No Comments

Tweet The increasing availability of WiMax and LTE eliminates the need for using satellite services that provide horrid uplink data speeds and give out in storms. While not as fast as fiber, 4G performance is in line with DSL and most cable services for data. RosettaStone, the leading computer-based language program, now works on tablets […]

IBM Teams with Worksoft for Automated Testing of SAP® Solutions

June 6, 2011 No Comments

Worksoft®, an innovative provider of automated business process validation and testing solutions, today announced at the IBM INNOVATE 2011 Conference that it has entered into a remarketing agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM) which allows IBM to resell Worksoft Certify®, the company’s flagship automated functional test solution. As part of the agreement, IBM will make Certify available to its customers through its Passport Advantage program system, as well as Certify Impact™ and Certify Data™. The Worksoft products will be made available as an integration to the IBM Rational® Quality Management (QM) suite for testing of environments running SAP® solutions.

TIBCO Spotfire Showcases Latest BI Innovations at TDWI World Conference

June 2, 2011 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  TIBCO TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced that it is showcasing TIBCO Spotfire® 3.3, the latest version of its in-memory analytics platform, at next week’s TDWI World Conference in Chicago. Offering collaboration and social networking capabilities to promote and capture the exchange of ideas that occur in business decision-making processes, Spotfire® 3.3 […]

The Four Myths of Business‐IT Collaboration in BPMS

June 2, 2011 No Comments

Model-driven development is a necessity for business agility, and model-driven development requires business-IT collaboration. So, what’s the solution to enabling business-IT collaboration and creating more agile business processes?

Software AG Acquires Metismo To Improve Mobile Device Management of Apps

June 2, 2011 No Comments

Software AG, a provider of Business Process Excellence, recently revealed that the company has acquired the U.K.-based Metismo, which offers a highly flexible and multi-functional platform for the development and mobile device management of apps.

WSO2 Summer School Features Free Class on Identity Management in the Cloud

June 2, 2011 No Comments

A cloud-based environment offers convenient and cost-effective access to technology. However, it also increases the security risk and need for appropriate authentication and authorization processes–particularly as enterprise information extends from in-house systems to popular software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, such Salesforce.com and Google Apps. A cloud-based approach to centralized identity management provides a robust alternative to server-based solutions for enabling secure access to diverse applications, whether on-premise or running as SaaS.

Webcast: Royal Bank of Canada Strengthens Customer Loyalty Through Exceptional Web Experiences

June 1, 2011 No Comments

This webcast will share vision, tips and examples on how Royal Bank of Canada partnered with IBM to create a “next-generation”, differentiated web experience.

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Another Invalid Criticism of BPMN 2.0

May 27, 2011 No Comments

What Everhard and Sinur are complaining about is that there isn’t a different symbol that reflects the type of work that is being done, for example resolving a case in a case management system or paying an invoice in an accounts payable system. They don’t like the choice of icon at the top left of a service task. Service tasks are used to represent most kinds of work done automatically (i.e. services), and there is just one symbol that looks like this:

Business Process Management and Middleware Market Accelerates Sharply, Gaining Share in Overall IT Spending, IDC Finds

May 26, 2011 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  EON News Recent International Data Corporation (IDC) research shows that the worldwide business process management (BPM) and middleware market recovered strongly from its 2009 growth slump and for 2010 revenue totaled nearly $16.1 billion, representing growth of 9.2% – up sharply from a growth rate of 2.2% in 2009. “The BPM and middleware […]

Oracle’s Database Now Available on Amazon Web Services

May 26, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Oracle’s database is now available for deployment on Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Tuesday, but with some key limitations. Customers can choose from “license included” and BYOL (bring your own license) pricing. The first model is priced starting at US$0.16 per hour, while the latter starts at $0.11 per hour, according to Amazon. […]

Google Whips Out an E-Wallet

May 26, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Google officially unveiled its e-wallet Thursday in a presentation with its partners at an event in New York. Google executives demonstrated making purchases and downloading e-coupons with the e-wallet through a Google Nexus S Android smartphone. They added that eventually consumers might even store their drivers’ licenses in it. The Google Wallet is secure, […]

New Mac Malware: No Password Required

May 26, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Just as Apple was officially responding to the MacDefender scareware scam that popped up a few weeks ago, a new and possibly more dangerous variant set to work tricking users into installing dangerous software. Unlike the original MacDefender scam, however, the new version does not require an administrative password to install itself on a […]

Martin Yale Integrates Business Processes With Epicor®

May 25, 2011 No Comments

Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, today announced that Martin Yale, a leading manufacturer of high performance information assurance solutions, including paper shredders, degaussers, and disintegrators, will implement Epicor’s next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution in Germany following a successful implementation in the US. The implementation will enable Martin Yale to continue fulfilling its global strategy to integrate production and business processes worldwide.

Real-time Information Even More Critical for Telecom Decision-Makers

May 25, 2011 No Comments

rogress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive and improve their customers experience, has released research revealing that while the telecommunications industry recognizes the value of real-time information, there is some way to go before it can become fully responsive to customer demands.

eXo and BonitaSoft Tighten Integration Between BPM and Document Management

May 25, 2011 No Comments

eXo, a provider of Java portal and user experience technologies, and BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced an expanded partnership. BonitaSoft will integrate eXo’s xCMIS technology into the new release of Bonita Open Solution (BOS), while the new eXo Platform for Bonita will offer BOS users advanced content management capabilities, an enhanced user experience, and seamless integration with existing workflows.

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