By Michael Coté on March 2, 2010
CA does well buying into private clouds with 3Tera.
Posted in Business | Tagged 3Tera, CA, Cloud, modeling, Private Cloud, Quick Analysis, Systems Management
By Sandy Kemsley on February 18, 2010
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I’ve spoken with a lot of cloud-based BPM vendors over the past few years, and I inevitably ask where their services are hosted. Since almost all of these are American companies, or are primarily targeting the American market, the answer is, almost inevitably, in the United States. I continue to point out that [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPM, Business process management, Canada, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Law, Privacy, United States
By R "Ray" Wang on February 17, 2010
Chatter represents both a collaboration application and platform
Announced at the 2009 Dreamforce conference in November, Chatter represents both a collaboration application and platform. Software built on the Force.com platform will gain the collaboration capabilities. Solutions in AppExchange will be able to use profiles, real time streams, and other API’s. Some key features include:
Aggregating streams [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged AppExchange, Apps Strategy, beta, Business 2.0, chatter, Cloud, Cloud Computing, collaboration, collaboration software, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Facebook, google, Google Wave, ibm, Linked In, Marc Benioff, Microsoft Outlook Social Connector, News Analysis, office productivity, Project Vulcan, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, SaaS Bill of Rights, SaaS offensive, SaaS strategies, salesforce.com, SoftwareInsider, user strategy, vendor strategy
By Sandy Kemsley on February 16, 2010
I had a briefing a couple of weeks ago on IBM BlueWorks by Angel Diaz and Janine Sneed from the BlueWorks team. BlueWorks is IBM’s cloud-based BPM environment, providing the following capabilities:
Browser-based modeling, including strategy maps, capability maps, process maps and BPMN processes.
Pre-built content to supplement or replace a BPM center of excellence (CoE), including [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged BPM, Business process modeling, Cloud, Enterprise 2.0, ibm, IBM WebSphere, intellectual property, Process modeling
By Michael Coté on February 8, 2010
There’s starting to be more attention on cloud software development than just operations optimization.
Posted in Software | Tagged Agile software development, appdev, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Development Tools, enterprise software, onepostaday, OpsCode, Programming, Reductive Labs, Software development
By James Governor on February 4, 2010
Stephen did his usual excellent job of explaining the the VMware Zimbra acquisition with a Q&A. Seriously – read the analysis. I already fed some of my thoughts into his post, but there are a couple of other things I wanted to mention.
Zimbra’s awesomesauce
Zimbra remains probably the single best implementation I have seen of real [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Cloud, collaboration, EMC, Groovy, Java, JEE, Microsoft Exchange, Open source, Spring, SpringSource, VMware, Yahoo, zimbra, Zimlets
By Michael Coté on February 3, 2010
What does cloud computing mean for Agile developers?
Posted in Software | Tagged Agile, Agile software development, Cloud, Cloud Computing, presentations, Systems Management
By Sandy Kemsley on February 3, 2010
Appian issued a press release last week on their growth in 2009, and had an analyst call today to provide more detail and answer questions. I attended their user conference in October, and was interested to hear their plans in the wake of recent BPM acquisitions.
In short, their 2009 performance was the best in their [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged appian, BPM, Cloud, SaaS
By R "Ray" Wang on February 1, 2010
Informatica Enters The Battle For Master Data Management Dominance
As with any best of breed market, only a few will survive and even fewer will succeed. Despite a leading offering, Siperian’s faced a rocky financial situation over the past 12 months. Many suitors pursued Siperian but in the end Informatica’s $130M acquisition of Siperian took one [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged acquisitions, AddressDoctor, Applimation, Cloud, data integration, data quality, DI, DQ, EMC, Enterprise apps strategy, hp, ibm, Identity Systems, Informatica, Itemfield, Ivan Chong, master data management, mdm, mergers, microsoft, News Analysis, oracle, R "Ray" Wang;, sap, Similarity Systems, Siperian, Social CRM, user strategy, vendor strategy
By David Terrar on January 28, 2010
The newly formed EuroCloud UK group held their first member meeting a week ago at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel – a panel led group discussion on Cloud standards and security. Chaired by Phil Wainewright, the panel experts were Dr. Guy Bunker, independent consultant and blogger, formerly Symantec’s chief scientist and co-author of ENISA’s cloud [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged basda, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud industry forum, enterprise, eurocloud, events, iaas, icaew, intellect, Networking, On Demand, PaaS, SaaS, salesforce.com, SAS 70, standards
