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Google Finds Its Voice on App Store

November 18, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Apple has finally approved the Google Voice app for the iPhone, which lets users make calls and send text messages using a Google Voice phone number. Google’s more than year-long journey to reach this point may have been helped by a gentle nudge from the Federal Communications Commission.  Google submitted the app to the […]

MuleSoft Positioned in the “Visionaries” Quadrant in Leading Analyst Firm’s Magic Quadrant for Shared SOA Interoperability Infrastructure Projects

November 18, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  MuleSoft MuleSoft, the open source provider of web middleware built on leading open source projects Mule ESB and Apache Tomcat, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant for Shared SOA Interoperability Infrastructure Projects.The “Magic Quadrant” assesses the vendors that provide these capabilities in their application infrastructure middleware […]

Online Social CRM intelecrm Adds Three New US Partners

November 17, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE: PRblog Intelestream, Inc., a leading provider in CRM consulting and CRM Software as a Service today announced the addition of three partners to the company’s USA Channel Partner Program: Skylos, Ubora Biz, and ValueCare. Partners joining the Intelestream Channel Network are authorized by Intelestream to directly sell, provide consulting services, and further customize […]

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Selects Pegasystems to Help With Legacy Modernization

November 17, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Pegasystems Pegasystems Inc), the leader in Business Process Management software solutions and a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, today announced that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has chosen Pegasystems to help drive its modernization efforts and agility in connection with its grants management program.  The state agency’s implementation […]

Real-Time Performance Solution Lowers Costs, Ensures SLA and Other Compliance Standards

November 17, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Nastel Technologies Nastel Technologies, a premier global provider of business transaction performance™ solutions for mission-critical applications spanning the distributed, mainframe and cloud tiers, today announced the availability of AutoPilot® M6 for Solace, an extension to its monitoring solution that provides real time, 360° Situational Awareness™ for Solace Systems’ middleware appliances, ensuring high performance, […]

Independent Research Firm Names Progress Software a Leader in Comprehensive Integration Solutions

November 17, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Progress Software Progress Software Corporation, a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. has cited Progress Software as a leader in “The Forrester Wave(TM): Comprehensive Integration Solutions, Q4, 2010 (November 2010)” report. In this detailed review of comprehensive integration solution (CIS) providers, the Progress(R) […]

WSO2 Launches New Middleware Services to Extend SOA to Business Users in the Cloud

November 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  WSO2 WSO2 today announced the launch of four cloud middleware services for extending enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations to business users. Based on middleware products from the award-winning open source WSO2 Carbon middleware platform, they provide proven technology for managing and monitoring business rules and processes on a public cloud, private cloud, or […]

Demand for Bonita Open Solution Grows 4000% in Under a Year

November 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  BonitaSoft BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source BPM solutions, today surpassed 500,000 downloads of Bonita Open Solution, the company’s open source business process management (BPM) suite. This significant milestone comes less than a year after BonitaSoft first released Bonita Open Solution 5.0, when downloads accelerated from 1,000 per month to 40,000 per […]

Red Hat Expands Program to Integrate Open Source Software Courses Into Collegiate and University Coursework

November 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE: Red Hat Red Hat, Inc, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, has expanded its outreach to introduce open source into the computer science curriculum at leading colleges and universities. As a member and catalyst in the Teaching Open Source community and through its sponsorship of POSSE (Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience) […]

Independent Analyst Says AWD Is a BPMS Leader

November 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  DST Technologies In his most recent paper about the Business Process Management (BPM) industry, independent analyst Bruce Silver describes DST Technologies’ AWD as a business-friendly solution that enables companies to build and execute customized processes to maximize efficiencies and manage critical customer relationships. Entitled “A Thoroughly Modern AWD,” the paper highlights AWD’s role […]

ProcessMaker and OrangeHRM Join to Deliver Highly Customizable HR Solutions with Advanced Workflow Capabilities

November 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  ProcessMaker Working to provide users with a high quality customizable HR solution, ProcessMaker, the leading open source workflow & BPM solution and OrangeHRM, the leading open source HRIS solution announced a strategic alliance to provide improved out-of-the-box integration capability between OrangeHRM and ProcessMaker. The alliance between ProcessMaker and OrangeHRM will benefit clients from […]

SOA Software Announces Unified Governance for IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric

November 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  SOA Software SOA Software, a leading SOA and cloud services Governance provider, today announced the availability of a comprehensive suite of governance products to help customers successfully plan, build and run applications for the IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric. SOA Software’s products provide Unified SOA Governance Automation for the IBM WebSphere Business Services […]

Facebook Casts Wide Net Across Social Chatter

November 16, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Facebook has revealed its new messaging system, which is designed to seamlessly tie together several different communications media into a single stream of interaction. “This is not an email killer, it’s a messaging system that includes email,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “We don’t expect people to wake up tomorrow and shut off their […]

Announcing the Release of the Casewise Portal & WebModeler

November 15, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Source:  Casewise Casewise, the thought leaders in Business Process Analysis, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture and Governance Risk & Compliance are delighted to announce the release of the Casewise Portal and WebModeler 2009.2 R2. The new release takes onboard the feedback from existing Portal and WebModeler users in addition to having assessed the overall […]

Oracle Hunts Apotheker, Google Hunts Loyalty

November 15, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Last week was an interesting week, with increasing coverage of the Oracle  vs. SAP trial and word out that Larry Ellison had put a bounty out on HP’s new CEO Leo Apotheker so his attorneys could chew him out on the stand for taking Larry’s buddy’s job. At the same time, Google gave its […]

City of Nashua, N.H. Adopts Multi-Application ERP Suite

November 15, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Lawson Software Lawson Software  today announced that the City of Nashua, N.H., has selected Lawson for the multi-application deployment of the Lawson Human Resource Management, Enterprise Financial Management and Supply Chain Management suites. The deployment will also include user productivity tools Lawson Business Intelligence and Lawson Smart Office. These enterprise-wide applications will help […]

Can a Plain Old PC Beat Google TV and Apple TV?

November 11, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Apple TV or Google TV? After you work your way through the myriad configurations, you get stuck with a limited selection of content, a ridiculously clunky search interface, weird remotes, skimpy storage, and perhaps an underwhelming picture. Given these options, the perfect TV setup is anything but clear. Could it be… a garden-variety computer? […]

Facebook Goes Wile E. Coyote on Google

November 10, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Facebook has come up with an end-run that circumvents Google’s attempt to blockade the social network from its users’ Gmail contacts. Before Google installed the barrier, Facebook users could opt to send their Gmail contacts’ info over to the social network. Now that ability is back, with the help of Facebook’s workaround. It’s a […]

Progress Software Launches Communications Order Management Solution Accelerator for Telecommunication Service Providers

November 9, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Progress Software Progress Software, a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, today announced the availability of a comprehensive order processing solution, the Progress(R) Communications Order Management solution accelerator. This solution accelerator manages all the critical business processes within an order management lifecycle and enables telecommunications service providers to bring […]

IBM Boosts Social Media Software Services

November 9, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Looking to help organizations improve business performance, IBM Monday released IBM Lotus Connections 3.0, a social networking platform with advanced analytics capabilities, as well as new services that use the social collaboration tools to improve productivity and return on investment. IBM made the announcement at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, which runs through November 11 […]

Nokia Puts the Leash Back on Symbian

November 9, 2010 No Comments

Tweet In a move the cellphone giant characterized as reaffirming its commitment to Symbian, Nokia has taken over development of the platform. Symbian, still technically the most popular smartphone OS in the world, has been losing significant market share in the face of competitors like Android and iPhone. The Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2010 in […]

Cisco’s SocialMiner Extends CRM To Social Media

November 8, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Cisco Systems is getting even more serious about social media. The tech giant rolled out software that lets companies find and respond to customers who engage with their brand through social-media networks. These include Twitter and Facebook, and other online forums and blogs. Read More…

Facebook Mobilizes Its Army

November 6, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Those phone rumors once again returned to haunt another Facebook announcement. For the last month or so, any time Facebook has had something new to present to the world, talk would again pick up about how the social networking site might one day decide to build its own cellphone, and the company would have […]

ASSIST MICRO AND BP LOGIX ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP

November 5, 2010 No Comments

BP Logix, developer of BPM software that accelerates time-to-value and Assist Micro, a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions to the Japanese market, announced a joint partnership.

Pegasystems Enhances Real-Time Decision Management Solution

November 5, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Pegasystems Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leader in business process management (BPM) and a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, today announced the latest release of its Chordiant Decision Manager (CDM) offering.  Pegasystems’ CDM suite of predictive decisioning technology empowers companies to become more agile and responsive to customer needs, by delivering next-best […]

Decision Matrix: Selecting A Business Process Management Vendor (Competitor Focus)

November 5, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Reportlinker Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Decision Matrix: Selecting a Business Process Management Vendor (Competitor Focus) http://www.reportlinker.com/p0185107/Decision-Matrix-Selecting-a-Business-Process-Management-Vendor-Competitor-Focus.html Introduction Ovum’s Business Process Management (BPM) Decision Matrix report explores the competitive dynamics within the BPM market and helps businesses select a vendor based on its technology strength, […]

Google Launches New Bug Bounty Program for Its Web Services

November 4, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Google has launched a new vulnerability reward program, modeled after the existent Chromium one, which promises to reward security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in many of its online services. The reward program will cover any Google Web properties that handle “highly sensitive authenticated user data or accounts.” Read More…

Dell acquires cloud-integration firm Boomi to add to its ERP stack

November 3, 2010 No Comments

After teasing the media about a possible cloud acqusition, Dell surprised the industry by acquiring a rather smaller SaaS integration outfit Boomi.

Log Management and SIEM: The Network’s Trusty Watchdogs

November 3, 2010 No Comments

Tweet Managing a data center is more complicated than ever with the growing sophistication and interconnectedness of enterprise applications, networks and now private and public cloud resources. The challenges created by these interwoven infrastructures are difficult to overcome without the right tools. Read More…

New Pegasystems’ Collections Solution Enables Organizations to Collect Debt More Intelligently While Protecting Customer Relationships

November 2, 2010 No Comments

Tweet SOURCE:  Pegasystems Pegasystems, the leader in business process management (BPM) and a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, today unveiled a new multi-channel solution that enables organizations to more intelligently manage their collections function. Pega Collections, which leverages Pegasystems’ Build for Change® technology, provides a new approach to the collections process, helping […]

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