IBM’s New Case Manager Product Overview
The day before the official announcement of IBM’s Case Manager product, Jake Levirne, Senior Product Manager, walked us through the capabilities. He started by defining case management, and discussing how it is about providing context to enable better outcomes rather than prescribing the exact method for achieving that outcome. For those of you who have [...]
Bringing user curated content to enterprise apps
One of my ongoing themes is how cloud computing is transforming the way businesses organize themselves and the way people work together. Perhaps the most impactful change enabled by the cloud is in giving individual employees far more autonomy and independence than ever before. It makes it much easier for them to do things such [...]
IBM IOD Opening Session: ACM and Analytics
I’m at IBM’s Information On Demand (IOD) conference this week, attending the opening session. There are 10,000 attendees here (including, I assume, IBM employees) for a conference that covers information management of all sorts: databases, analytics and content management. As at other large vendor conferences, they feel obligated to assault our senses in the morning [...]
Why are Businesses Implementing Social Software?
We recently conducted a social business adoption survey, our second this year, and in reviewing the results we’re seeing some very exciting patterns emerge. My colleague, Erin Traudt, who manages the enterprise collaboration and social solutions practice in my group is doing a three part series on our IDC group blog on the whole survey [...]
News Analysis: Charles Phillips Takes Over As CEO of Infor
Image via Wikipedia Enterprise Software And Investment Banker Veteran Joins Third Largest Enterprise Apps Vendor Today’s announcement that former Oracle President Charles “Chuck” Phillips has taken the helm as CEO of Infor continues the executive management shuffle impacting the enterprise software space. Based in Alpharetta, GA, Infor serves 70,000 customers in 125 countries worldwide and [...]
The Apps Store Phenomenon
Apple’s announcement this past week of another apps store, this time focused on offering products for the Mac, is one in a rapidly growing series of app store launches in the last year or so. It’s not really a surprise…
Multi-tenancy: Table Stakes For HRM SaaS In 2011
Mere Table Stakes With 2011 practically upon us — here at Bloom & Wallace, we’ve got 2011 laid out and a lot of our major time blocks for 2012 in process — it’s time to declare the do we or don’t we need multi-tenancy discussion over for HRM SaaS, with multi-tenancy the clear winner for [...]
Ariba Supplier Network Alternatives: Hubwoo (Part 2)
See the first part of this post here. From a supplier onboarding and enablement perspective, Hubwoo’s Connectivity Hub is focused on driving rapid adoption of suppliers and the capture of related sourcing information. The self-service supplier registration capability directs vendors to enter information. In addition, Hubwoo provides a range of value-added services focused on “program [...]
