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Oracle-BEA vs. IBM-FileNet: The Borg vs. Death by a Thousand Cuts
06. 9.2008

Sandy Kemsley

Unlike the death-from-a-thousand-cuts method inflicted by IBM on FileNet's business process management suite, Oracle is more like the Borg: BEA is being assimilated, and fast... Oracle is doing exactly what I thought IBM should have done with FileNet: split up the product where it made sense and merge those pieces into similar teams that already exist...

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Bruce Silver

The Future of BPM at BEA/Oracle
06. 5.2008
When I hear people say that Oracle bought BEA for its business process management suite, I have to laugh. I'm fairly confident the Oracle crew that went after BEA could not even spell BPM. But no doubt the two BPMSs will have to be merged into a single offering... I don't know what Oracle's plans are... but I have thought a bit about what they ought to do.

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Bashing SAP, Oracle and Other 'Stackers'
05.29.2008

Bruce Silver

Lombardi's Jim Rudden posts an admittedly "cranky" piece about software giants like SAP crashing the business process management (BPM) party. His beef with those companies, which he calls "Stackers," is that they pursue the promise of BPM half-heartedly... I think he paints the Stackers with too broad and too black a brush. So let me offer a more nuanced view.

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Bruce Silver

BPMS Ratings: Drill Down on Scoring Details
05.20.2008
Regarding the BPMS Watch Ratings report I released last month... I have been looking for a way to publish the details of the scoring, and at the same time allow users to apply their own weightings to the features in each capability category... I wanted to do it online, not as an Excel download, but had no idea how to do that...

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Washington D.C.
June 24-25, 2008

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Washington D.C.
June 24-25, 2008

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San Francisco
September 9-10, 2008

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How to Get to Better Planning and Budgeting
June 1, 2008
by Ventana Research
A new Ventana Research report finds that most companies are falling short on the basics of performance management. Here are five sets of diagnostic questions as well as best practices for broader, more responsive and more effective planning and budgeting.

Intelligence on the Go: Mobile Delivery of BI
May 19, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Many BI vendors now offer modules that let you deliver just about any report to smart phones, but as a major retailer, a health care provider and a major government agency have discovered, practical, tactical wins are the key to mobile success.

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Metastorm Upgrades BPM Suite
Version 7.6 of the Metastorm BPM strengthens the company's use of Microsoft desktop technologies, including Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office 2007.

Microsoft Unveils Innovation Management Initiative
The software maker's initiative is built on Office SharePoint Server 2007 and is a key component of Office Enterprise Project Management software.

Telelogic As Unit Of IBM Upgrades, Broadens Its Tools
Doors, for example, is a set of requirements management tools that track not only the software changes required in a product but any other changes as well

How to Make the Most of SaaS
Online services require up-front planning and a close relationship with your service providers.

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