ERP’s Franken-soft and how Workday avoids it
The genesis of many application software products is a great idea. Someone conceives a better, newer way to achieve a business outcome, complete a process, etc. That idea gets codified and becomes an application. In some cases, it bec…
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM In Depth
Back in May at TIBCO’s TUCON conference, I had a chance for a briefing on their new ActiveMatrix BPM, although not a full demo. Since then, however, I’ve had about three hours of demo sessions with Roger King to see more of what they’re doing with ActiveMatrix (which I will refer to as AMX) BPM [...]
You Know You Have Big Data When…(Humor)
One of the more philosophical questions analysts like to ask is “What is Big Data?” It’s relative – it begs the question, “what’s big?” And that is a constantly moving number, and always assessed by comparison to the ridiculous amounts some companies work with. But Big Data as a concept in IT parlance today tends [...]
TIBCO’s Recent Acquisitions: DataSynapse, Foresight, Netrics and Spotfire
No rest for the wicked: at the analyst lunch, we had sessions on four of TIBCO’s recent acquisitions while we were eating: DataSynapse This is a significant part of TIBCO’s cloud and grid strategy, with a stack of four key products: Grid Server, which allows multiple servers to be pooled and used as a single [...]
