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Watch Out for Oracle BPMS

Posted by Bruce Silver
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
3:28 PM

Oracle has one of the most widely used BPEL tools on the market, but so far they haven't shown up in the business process management suite (BPMS) magic quadrants. That should change soon.

Recall that Oracle did an OEM deal in July with IDS Scheer for the ARIS Process Design Platform, the leader in business process analysis tools according to Gartner’s quadrant. At the time I speculated this had more to do with keeping up with SAP in the enterprise apps battle than engaging in the BPMS marketplace, but that’s apparently not entirely true.

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Posted by Penny Crosman
Monday, November 27, 2006
3:25 PM

The New York Times recently ran a story about the notion of the Semantic Web. You have to be a subscriber to access the article on the paper's site, so here's an excerpt:

"From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web and the links that weave them together, computer scientists and a growing collection of start-up companies are finding new ways to mine human intelligence.

Posted by Antone Gonsalves
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
6:49 PM

For companies looking to extend their customer relationship management software to sales the time is right to look at sales-force automation applications, particularly from those vendors that offer SFA as a Web service. That’s according to market research firm Gartner, which recently released its predictions for the SFA market.

Posted by Tony Byrne
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
2:23 PM

It seems that the world is almost slowing down a bit as Microsoft readies a final version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, the quite substantial upgrade to a nearly ubiquitous SharePoint 2003. SharePoint is many things to many people, but customers typically deploy it as a lightweight collaboration portal. With this latest version, Microsoft is trying to extend the product's reach. Microsoft has certainly broadened SharePoint functionally, but sometimes "enterprise" means depth as well as breadth, and some of the old shortcomings (such as performance and administration) persist.

Posted by Cindi Howson
Monday, November 20, 2006
9:58 AM

Yes, I too have finally caved to the blogging phenomenon, and although blogging and discipline are somewhat incongruous, I fear I will give blog readers yet another diversion to real work if I don’t stick to some sort of schedule. So look for blogs from me each week or as industry events unfold.

What’s on my mind this week? I want you to start thinking about BI on steroids –- the innovations that will take BI to the point of becoming a must-have office tool for 110 percent of employees. These are not just the technical innovations, but also innovations in how you think about BI and view information processes.

Posted by Penny Crosman
Friday, November 17, 2006
7:59 PM

From time to time over the years I've written about enterprise digital rights management software, including offerings from EMC, Authentica, SealedMedia, Liquid Machines, Digital Containers, Adobe and Microsoft. These products aim to protect sensitive, high-value, or confidential documents with authentication and security, no matter where they go within an organization and beyond it. With information leaks and intellectual property suits making the news regularly, you'd think there'd be a crying need for such products, yet the product category has never quite taken off. Some observers vehemently object to the idea of DRM, thinking the intent is to take away their right to digital content, e.g. download copyrighted music and video from public websites. Others believe it's impossible to password-protect a Word document once it has left the author's machine. Still others in corporate America are completely unaware of this category of software.

Posted by Dave Stodder
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
8:48 PM

We are excited about opening up this new channel for communication with subscribers and the broader Intelligent Enterprise community. We look forward to participating in the ongoing conversation among the blogs, and to sharing our ideas, reports and observations.

Posted by Antone Gonsalves
Sunday, November 12, 2006
8:05 PM

WebMethods is a good example of an old-time enterprise application integration vendor that's moving as fast as possible to meet the rising demand for tools to build service-oriented architectures. A form of distributed computing, SOAs make it possible to reuse applications in multiple business processes. This bit of magic is usually performed through the use of interfaces that leverage XML standards.

Posted by Penny Crosman
Friday, November 10, 2006
10:54 AM

A current fad in corporate America is what I call the "stealth layoff." Instead of announcing or explaining layoffs, management shucks apparently valued employees onesie-twosie style, in complete silence. Managers are forbidden to discuss the layoffs in meetings, memos or emails out of fear that negative publicity will result, and employees are left to wonder why their former colleagues were sent packing and whether or not they'll be next.

Posted by Doug Henschen
Thursday, November 9, 2006
4:47 PM

FileNet is now part of IBM, Hummingbird has been acquired by Open Text and Stellent will soon be part of Oracle. This trio of announcements, all within the last month, marks a turning point for enterprise content management (ECM).