Active Endpoints has been acquired by Informatica. The news was buried in a press release announcing Informatica's latest cloud-based product, which is dated February 20, 2013. It's not immediately clear when the acquisition happened. The...

If there is one thing that drives agile delivery of automated business outcomes, it's continuous deployment. Automation of error-prone manual procedures reduces errors and increases efficiency - as long as you build on configuration management best...

The change of season and, of course, the weather from snow to sunshine here in the UK seems to have coincided with the production of 2 reports on ERP from 2 of the major magazines aimed at the manufacturing vertical. The Logistics Manager article[i]...

The Intel Software Conference was in Chantilly this year and, once again, James Reinders' keynote set the agenda - see his blogs here. It's all about parallel programming from few to many cores with consistent models, languages, tools, and...

An interesting innovation at the 2013 Intel Software Conference was its free HTML5 development environment - a packaged set of programming tools, including cloud support. The approach is different to that adopted for its C++ tools and perhaps deals...

French-founded open-source BPM technology vendor Bonitasoft (covered by us in detail here) today announced it has secured a third round of VC funding of $13m – taking total funding so far to $28m. This round was led by a fund associated with...

Readers will know that our last survey into the data migration market, along with the best practices we recommended, was published in 2011. The big result from this survey was the extent to which the adoption of technology increased the chance of...

QPR Software announced on May 14th the launch of QPR EAXpress, a new software tool offering the benefits of QPR EnterpriseArchitect as a standalone version. Jaakko Riihinen, SVP Products & Technology at QPR Software. stated, QPR EAXpress has...

As Sandy, Bruce and David have already highlighted, one of the very biggest themes at this year’s IMPACT conference for IBM middleware customers was ‘Smarter Process’. BPM in some form has been a significant feature of the previous...

I've been thinking for some time that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next big technology disruption - what we're doing now may simply not scale easily to this new world. Nothing new there but I was listening to an Analyst teleconference...

It's almost here - The BCS CMSG Conference 2013 is on 4 June 2013, and you can register here. Configuration Management is about a lot more than just delivering software code and the BCS Configuration Management Specialist Group (BCS CMSG) is very...

It's not often that I review fiction in here, but I think this book is worth a read - both by IT professionals and by the business managers who (hopefully) manage them. The book is The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your...

In my previous post, Is Big Data Relevant for SMBs?, I looked at the underlying trends driving the buzz around big data, and why big data is relevant for SMBs. I also discussed why 'big' is a relative term—relative to the amount of information...

Readers will be aware that there has been some confusion about the support for JSON (JavaScript Object notation) documents in the latest release of DB2. I had originally understood - when I was pre-briefed on this back in October last year - that...

SMBs are taking to mobile solutions like ducks take to water, as revealed in SMB Group’s 2013 SMB Mobile Solutions Study, and as I discussed in 2013 SMB Mobile Attitudes and Challenges. In fact, I’m hard-pressed to think of any other...

SAP ran a virtual and global press and analyst event last night to announce the latest enhancement to its in-memory platform HANA, this time launching SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. The name of the offering pretty much sums it up, but in a nutshell SAP...

Last week, we (Helena Schwenk and Angela Ashenden) attended Salesforce.com’s customer event in London, which this year was branded as the “Customer Company Tour”, replacing the previous CloudForce moniker. As in previous years,...

Salesforce.com is about a lot more than customer relationship management these days. Perhaps one of the most interesting facets of the product is salesforce.com as a trusted platform for enterprise cloud computing; together with Salesforce...

Talking with Michael Madden, General Manager, and David Hodgson of CA's Mainframe group, I was touched by their infectious (and, in my opinion, justified) enthusiasm. It's also a good sign that if Mike Gregoire (CA Technologies' new CEO) is teaching...

There’s little doubt that big data is the latest 'big thing' in the IT industry. But for many small and medium business (SMB) decision-makers, big data is a somewhat fuzzy term. Ask any number of them what big data means, and you’re...