On Monday, with the official launch of Tibbr, enterprise integration specialist TIBCO joined the crowded market for enterprise social software tools. Although at first sight the launch of a social software platform by a vendor previously seen...

Microsoft and HP recently firmed up their commitment to the data warehouse and BI space by announcing a portfolio of appliances that pull together the infrastructure of HP with the information management and BI tools of Microsoft. At first glance...

On Jan 25 we lauched the fourth in our series of online, on-demand MWD Insights events: this one focused on the topic of Process Intelligence. The topic of Process Intelligence has received quite a lot of attention over the past couple of years, but...

Last week I visited the rather warmer climes of Orlando, Florida, for IBM Lotus’ annual customer and partner event, Lotusphere. After two and a half days of sessions and 1-to-1’s, when pulling together my thoughts about the key messages...

Tomorrow (Feb 16) I’m going to be presenting a webinar on the above topic, courtesy of Active Endpoints. Having spent a fair amount of time talking to telecoms service providers over the past few years, the role of BPM has always been...

Barely a few weeks after declaring it would stop actively selling Neoview, its data warehousing platform, HP has announced plans to acquire Vertica—an analytic database vendor—for an undisclosed sum. The deal firmly places HP back within...

Last week, ECM specialist OpenText completed its purchase of BPM and Enterprise Architecture tools vendor Metastorm for $182m. The deal was originally announced on Feb 2 and was expected to close by the end of March; OpenText has obviously received...