A few weeks ago I was talking to an experienced journalist about BPM—and he was pretty ticked off with the topic. He was complaining that he felt he’d been tricked by vendors and analysts into writing pieces about how the “year of...

Last week Teradata announced its intention to acquire Aster Data for $263 million. This equates to 89% ownership of Aster Data; Teradata acquired an earlier 11% ownership interest back in September last year. The deal, which is expected to close...

Last year, I was doing some research on the current state of support for BPM initiatives within the consulting / systems integration (CSI) community—looking particularly at the larger players (Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini and so...

Since the launch of Google Apps Premium Edition (now called Google Apps for Business) in 2007, Google has been blazing a trail in the SaaS-based enterprise collaboration market focusing on making small, regular software updates, in place of the more...