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Browser War: What Is It Good For?

April 15, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Many of the major browser makers are under pressure to deliver updates at shorter and shorter intervals, touting faster speeds, better performance and more innovations. What are the stakes that are fueling this increasingly frenetic browser development? What is the prize that these companies are vying for?  Read more…

Cloud Extend for Salesforce.com Boosts Sales Team Productivity

April 14, 2011 No Comments

Boosting sales team productivity, Cloud Extend™ for Salesforce.com delivers intuitive, user-driven customization to sales managers, sales operations, and product marketing. Natively integrated with Salesforce.com, Cloud Extend enables sales organizations to now capture sales knowledge, replicate successful sales patterns and enforce data consistency.

IBM Introduces New Software, Services To Help Clients Transform Their Business Processes To Fuel Growth

April 14, 2011 No Comments

IBM delivered new software and services aimed at helping organizations transform their business processes to increase efficiency, reduce costs and find new ways to grow their businesses.

Oracle Is #1 in the ESB Suites Market in Worldwide SOA Software for 2010

April 13, 2011 No Comments

Oracle was also number one in the combined ESB Suites and SOA Governance markets within SOA with 24.3 percent market share and growth of 32.2 percent.

Cloud Drive From Amazon Seeds Future Growth

April 12, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Amazon.com recently unveiled its Cloud Drive services that allow people to store digital music and access them from computers or Android devices. We believe that this will offer some upside to our estimates for Amazon’s stock through increased revenues from its cloud and other Web services as well as increase revenues for Amazon’s music […]

IBM to launch Websphere 8 in June

April 8, 2011 No Comments

IBM plans to release the next version of its flagship Java application server, Websphere 8, on June 17, according to documents posted to IBM’s website this week.

Dell Invests $1 Billion in Cloud Hosting Infrastructure, Strategy

April 7, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Technology giant Dell (www.dell.com) announced on Thursday it is entering the cloud hosting market with a series of new cloud services, technologies, and data centers. Dell plans to invest a whopping $1 billion throughout the year to deliver “leading solutions, services and cloud-based delivery options” to launch and sell cloud services, starting with email […]

Industry Leaders Worldwide Embrace IBM Clouds to Transform Business Processes

April 7, 2011 No Comments

IBM today announced increased client adoption of its cloud computing software and services with more than 20 million end-user customers worldwide, making it one of the world’s largest providers of software-as-a-service (SaaS).

CA Technologies Acquires Leading IT Consulting Firm, Base Technologies

April 7, 2011 No Comments

CA today announced the acquisition of Base Technologies, a privately-held consulting firm focused on the management of IT assets, with leading practices in virtualization management, mainframe technology, security and managed IT infrastructure. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Oracle Releases Enterprise Gateway 11g for SOA and Cloud Security

April 6, 2011 No Comments

To help enterprises secure their service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments on-premise, across domain boundaries or in the cloud, Oracle today announced the Oracle Enterprise Gateway.

Gartner Names IBM Leader in Middleware Software for Tenth Consecutive Year

April 5, 2011 No Comments

IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that Gartner, Inc. has once again named IBM the worldwide market share leader in the application infrastructure and middleware software segment based on total worldwide revenue for 2010.

Google Search for iPhone Hits Its Awkward Stage

March 29, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Google has updated its search app for iPhone with a new interface, as well as the addition of Google Goggles. The slide’n’swipe interface features an interesting way of arranging menu items, yet the slide action feels jerky. Like its original version, the app can take you to a long list of Google Apps, yet […]

Debunking BPM Software Myths

March 26, 2011 No Comments

While BPM software offers solutions for streamlining business process, increasing efficiencies and promoting cost savings, there is sometimes confusion surrounding the process, according to PNMSoft, a company dedicated to providing BPM software solutions to help customers meet management challenges.

Hackers fake SSL certificates for web services

March 25, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Hackers have broken into the systems of a web authentication firm in Europe, issuing false certificates that forced Google, Microsoft and Mozilla to issue emergency browser patches. The March 15 attack on a “trusted partner” of secure socket layer (SSL) certificate issuer Comodo sent shockwaves through the web industry after Comodo suggested that it […]

ProcessMaker to offer Advanced Business Intelligence in its BPM software

March 23, 2011 No Comments

ProcessMaker®, an industry leading Open Source Workflow and Open Source Business Process Management (BPM) Software will now include modules for advanced Business Intelligence and Data Integration thanks to an agreement with Orlando based Pentaho Corporation, the pioneer in agile business intelligence (BI).

FireFox 4 Lets Fly With New Speed, Privacy Features

March 23, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s release of Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla has launched its fourth full version of Firefox. New features include the obligatory speed bump as well as App Tabs and a drag-and-drop feature called “Panorama.” Also on board is a Do Not Track feature, though it doesn’t work exactly the same […]

BPM, CRM Meet in New App for Microsoft CRM

March 22, 2011 1 Comment

Tweet Convinced that users of Microsoft Dynamics CRM software need additional business process management capabilities, Bluespring Software recently announced its Bluespring BPM for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a tailored version of the company’s core business process management suite. The new application borrows capabilities from Bluespring’s BPM5 software, giving Dynamics CRM customers advanced workflow automation, integration to […]

Amazon Web Services outages raise serious cloud questions

March 21, 2011 No Comments

Tweet The unreliability of Amazon Web Services is causing some cloud-dependent firms to reconsider their options and move their infrastructure onto other platforms. Problems with the firm’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) service occurred at an Amazon datacentre in Virginia on 17 and 18 March. The issues were fixed relatively quickly, but still had a significant […]

Lincoln Trust Company Announced Today That It Was Awarded the Gartner Business Process Management Excellence Award

March 18, 2011 No Comments

Gartner, Inc. today announced today the five winners of the Gartner Business Process Management Excellence Awards. Lincoln Trust Company is proud to be amongst the winners. Lincoln Trust won in the category of “Advancing BPM Competency.” The awards are given to the companies that most clearly demonstrated excellence in their BPM initiatives. The winners were selected by a review team from the Gartner analyst community.

Core Synesis Implements AuraPortal for the Brazilian Corporation Usiminas

March 15, 2011 No Comments

Tweet AuraPortal (www.auraportal.com), a global provider of Business Process Management (BPM) has announced that its Partner in Brazil Core Synesis has implemented the Suite BPM of AuraPortal in the Brazilian corporation Usiminas, which is one of the leading steel companies in the world. Core Synesis, a partner of AURA in Brazil, has developed a Social […]

OpenSpan Introduces Support for Oracle Complex Event Processing

March 11, 2011 No Comments

OpenSpan, Inc., a leader in user process management software, , today announced it has released support for Oracle Complex Event Processing (CEP). Oracle CEP is a complete solution for building applications to filter, correlate and process events in real-time so that downstream applications, service oriented architectures and event-driven architectures are driven by true, real-time intelligence.

AuraPortal Offers BPM Muscle with Content Management Module

March 10, 2011 No Comments

Tweet While many business process management systems contain to some degree or other content management capabilities, the release of a content management module from AuraPortal (news, site) offers enterprises content management capabilities that can be monitored and controlled from the core web-based BPM platform. While we have seen over the past year how a number […]

Akhela to Become More Responsive with BPM from Progress Software

March 9, 2011 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Progress Software Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, has today announced that Akhela, the IT company of Saras Group in Italy, is moving to a Responsive Process Management (RPM) strategy to make its internal processes more agile. Akhela implemented the Progress® Savvion® BPM […]

Gartner BPM Summit: Don’t Mention Technology When Selling BPM to the Board

March 9, 2011 No Comments

Tweet If CIOs want top execs on the board to buy into business process management (BPM) projects, they should sell them as business rather than technology initiatives. This was the general consensus at the Gartner BPM Summit in London yesterday. BPM is the creation of systems that streamline an organisation’s workflow making it more effective […]

Capgemini Launches its new Global Business Process Management Service Line at the Gartner BPM Summit in London

March 9, 2011 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Capgemini Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services, today unveiled a new global service line that draws together its activities in Business Process Management (BPM) that will contribute to its growth program. Capgemini’s end-to-end BPM approach treats business processes as assets that can directly contribute to client’s […]

Pegasystems Sets New Scale and Performance Standard on IBM System z

March 7, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced the results of a benchmark test of Pega running on IBM System z mainframe servers. The benchmark validates Pegasystems’ ability to scale to meet the needs of the world’s largest enterprises. The benchmark test was conducted in partnership with Medco Health […]

Business Process Management: Alternative Views

March 3, 2011 No Comments

Tweet Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/027980/business_process_m) has announced the addition of the “Business Process Management: Alternative Views” report to their offering. This Cutter IT Journal special issue argues that business process management (BPM) is not just about swim lane charts; it is also about managing unpredictable processes, frequently changing rules, collective knowledge, and convergence with SOA. […]

Software AG Unveils Cloud-Computing Vision for Faster Business Innovation and Transformation

February 23, 2011 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Software AG Software AG today announced its comprehensive technology approach for cloud computing. Software AG fully supports the vision of extreme collaboration with cloud enabling technology to facilitate faster change and process improvement with greater participation from all key stakeholders. “Everyone understands that cloud computing can reduce total cost of ownership and speed-up […]

Pegasystems Helps Payers Meet U.S. Government Healthcare Cost-Cutting Mandates

February 22, 2011 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE: Pegasystems Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in business process management (BPM) solutions, today unveiled a significant upgrade to its customer relationship management (CRM) offerings. With Pega’s Customer Process Manager for Healthcare, organizations can deliver on new reform-mandated cost efficiencies while also providing superior customer service consistently across all communication channels. New mandates […]

Celent Recognizes MetLife India Business Process Management Capabilities

February 21, 2011 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE: MetLife India Celent, a leading research and consulting firm in the global financial services industry, at its 2011 Model Insurer Summit held in New York on February 10, 2011, recognized MetLife India Insurance Co. Ltd. for its Business Process Management capabilities. MetLife India demonstrated these capabilities through a well-defined road map leading to […]

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