A few weeks ago I got an update briefing from Brian Reale, CEO of Colosa – the company behind the open source ProcessMaker BPMS tool. Colosa has recently entered into a partnership with open source BI provider Pentaho, with the aim of...

For most organisations, email remains the primary tool for enabling online collaboration, to the extent where we use it not just for messaging, but also for group discussions, document collaboration and managing tasks, among other things. However,...

A few weeks ago I was given a hush-hush pre-briefing on a new product offering from Active Endpoints called Cloud Extend for Salesforce.com. It takes the BPM and SOA technology provider into new territory, but I think it’s a sensible move...

Last week I made my annual 24-hour flying visit to the US east coast and the Progress Software analyst day. Last year CEO Rick Reidy laid out plans to create a $1billion company by bringing together a number of its brands (particularly Savvion,...

Last week Sybase held its annual analyst event in the heart of New York’s financial district at the New York Stock Exchange. The event provided a useful forum in which to assess the company’s progress since being acquired by SAP in July...

Yesterday, Palo Alto, CA-based online communities vendor Jive Software announced its acquisition of OffiSync, a vendor of Microsoft Office extension plug-ins, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition comes hot on the heels of another acquisition by...

With its recent focus on Business Process Excellence following its acquisition of IDS Scheer, it’s perhaps easy to forget that Software AG still has a healthy business as an integration middleware provider. The purchase of Terracotta,...