Oracle Launches Cloud Platform for CRM, HR
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is now a cloud vendor. The Oracle Public Cloud was officially announced at OpenWorld, providing…
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Oracle Speeds Up Business Intelligence, CRM and ERP
The 45,000 attendees at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco were served up a program rich…
A Dozen Ways to Get the Most out of Your ERP System
Whether you are looking to purchase a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system or leverage a legacy system,…
Oracle Grows Software Business, Moves Away from x86 Hardware
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is continuing to grow its software business while moving away from commodity x86 hardware. Oracle…
SAP Acquires Crossgate for Business Social Networking
Looking to provide customers with options to connect with their business partners, SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced plans…
What is Odoo Open Source ERP?
Belgium-based Odoo made a name for itself under its previous name of OpenERP, with an open source ERP…
SAP to Acquire Right Hemisphere for 3-D Visualization Software
SAP (NYSE: SAP) has announced plans to acquire Right Hemisphere, a provider of visual enterprise solutions, to help…
A Dozen Ways to Get the Most out of Your BPM System
The market for business process management (BPM) software has been strong in recent years, as the promise of…
Workday 14 Offers Embedded Intelligence for Business Processes
Workday Inc., a SaaS-based enterprise solution provider for human resources, payroll and financial management, has announced that all…
Microsoft Has an Office 365 Outage
Portions of Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud computing suite were down for several hours in the U.S, including some…
SAP Sets Sights on Mobile Enterprise Apps
Building on last year’s acquisition of Sybase, SAP (NYSE: SAP) is increasing its focus on making its enterprise…
Oracle Releases New Version of User Productivity Kits for IT Project Management
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced a new version of its Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) to help organizations…
Oracle Enhances Business Intelligence with Environmental Accounting and Reporting
In an effort to help organization track greenhouse emissions and sustainability, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has introduced Oracle Environmental…
OpenText Continues Push in BPM Market with Global 360 Acquisition
OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX) has acquired process and case management solution provider Global 360 Holding Corporation for approximately $260…
CA Integrates Project Management with Salesforce Chatter
CA (NASDAQ: CA) has expanded its Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution by incorporating collaboration capabilities with Salesforce.com…
Microsoft Office 365 Is Also for the Enterprise
Microsoft announced general availability of its next-generation online suite at an event in New York on Tuesday. Although…
Oracle’s Software, Database Sales Drive Growth
Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) software business remained strong in its most recent quarter, but hardware sales came in shy…
Business Process Management (BPM) Offers Growth When the Economy Slows
The future of the business process management (BPM) market seems pretty strong, if you don’t mind markets that…
Oracle Targets Global Markets with Latest Oracle Insurance Release
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced the availability of Oracle Insurance Insbridge Rating and Underwriting 4.5, the newest version…
Pegasystems Adds Analytics to BPM
Business process management (BPM) software provider Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA) has unveiled the latest version of Pega BPM, which…
BPM Market Accelerates, IBM Leads
The worldwide business process management (BPM) and middleware market has recovered strongly from a 2009 slump, according to…
Progress Software and Joe Isuzu: Process Intelligence, Not Business Agility
Those readers with long memories may still cherish the old Isuzu car commercials with Joe Isuzu, the smarmy…
Survey Says SAP Most Widely Deployed ERP Application
According to a recent survey by Hubspan Inc., when it comes to enterprise resource planning (ERP) deployment, customization…
BonitaSoft Open Source BPM 5.5 Adds Social and Collaboration Features
Open source business process management (BPM) provider BonitaSoft has announced some significant upgrades for its new version 5.5…
Terracotta In-Memory Technology to Fuel Software AG Cloud Computing Offerings
Software AG will acquire Terracotta, which offers some of the most widely-used software for application scalability, availability and…
SAP Unveils Performance Management, ERP and Mobile Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) had a host of product and partnership announcements at its Sapphire Now user conference this…
Enterprise Software Sales Grew 8.5 Percent in 2010
The enterprise software market grew by a surprising 8.5 percent worldwide in 2010, at least partly based on…
Oracle Sees HR Software, CRM Catching On In the Cloud as Fusion Apps Launch
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has begun rolling out its long-awaited Fusion Applications, with more than 100 modules spanning financials,…
Open Source Activiti BPM Software Released
Open source enterprise content management company Alfresco Software has released the 2.0 version of the Activiti Business Process…
Oracle Adds Financial Reporting, Compliance to Enterprise Performance Management
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has upgraded its enterprise performance management software to include new financial reporting and compliance features.…
Microsoft Begins Public Beta of Office 365
Microsoft announced Monday it has begun widespread public beta testing of its Office 365 cloud-based online business application…
IBM Unveils Unified Business Process Management (BPM) Platform
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has unveiled Business Process Manager, new software and services aimed at helping organizations transform their business…
Former MindTree Co-Founder Announces New Global IT Venture
Former MindTree co-founder Ashok Soota has announced a new business venture to provide IT services to global firms.…
Still No Date Set for Oracle Fusion Apps
Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) Fusion Apps suite may have been launched to great fanfare at OpenWorld last year but,…
Consona Announces Knowledge Management 8.0
Customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and services Consona Corporation (Consona), has announced the…
SAP Rivals IBM, Oracle in Governance Software Market
Nearly three years in the making SAP (NYSE: SAP) is set to rival IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (NASDAQ:…
Six Ways Business Intelligence Software Can Help Your Business
In an effort to pin down specific ways business intelligence software can help businesses work smarter, we recently…
Drupal 8 Open Source CMS Starts to Take Shape
After three years of development, the open source Drupal 7 content management system debuted earlier this year. Drupal…
Enterprise Application Market Could Reach $40B
In an article presented on TMC Net, Forrester Research analyst John McCarthy speculated that by 2015, the enterprise…
BPM: The Future of Enterprise Collaboration
Author Ann All offers her views on the future of enterprise collaboration in this article presented on IT…
BonitaSoft Open Source BPM Supports Cloud Deployments
BonitaSoft has recently announced the release of version 5.4 of its open source BPM platform, Bonita Open Solution.…
OpenText to Acquire Metastorm
Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX) has announced that it has entered into an agreement and plan of merger…
Tips for Boosting Revenue Performance Management
Revenue performance management that focuses on end-to-end business processes fits the current need. As reported in this story…
Software AG Brings Process Intelligence to BPMS
Software AG has recently introduced process intelligence for its webMethods BPMS (business process management suite) customers. In its…
Gartner Expects Increase in Business Process Improvement (BPI)
According to Gartner, businesses that prioritize Business Process Management (BPM) as a core skill will outperform those that…
Oracle Announces Fast Adoption Rate of PeopleSoft
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) claims to have added more than 350 PeopleSoft customers in the past year. According to…
Oracle Updates WebCenter Suite 11g
Oracle announced Tuesday that it is shipping a significant update to its WebCenter Suite 11g user experience portals…
Time to Ditch Spreadsheets?
Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet application is a popular choice for companies looking to track expenses and manage business data.…
Kogent Announces Enterprise Performance Management Acquisition
Business Intelligence (BI) company, Kogent Corporation, has recently announced its acquisition of Driver6, Inc., a San Jose-based business…
Decision Management: A New Breed of Business Process Management (BPM)
A new brand of business process management (BPM) called “decision management” software is gaining traction according to analysts.…