March 2007 Archives

BPM-BI Convergence

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By Elizabeth Book on March 29, 2007 12:15 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I find it interesting that two of our ebizQ bloggers, Michael Dortch and James Taylor, both are writing about BI in the context of BPM this week. Michael also contributed a feature to the ebizQ-RFG analyst corner about BI and... Read More..
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Today's Open Source Excitement

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By Elizabeth Book on March 28, 2007 10:32 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
ebizQ blogger Dennis Byron let me know in advance yesterday of a bunch of excitement going down in the Open Source world today. For all those people not sure why Open Source is such a big deal, read this now!... Read More..
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Jon Pyke's Most Recent BPM Article

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By Elizabeth Book on March 22, 2007 3:06 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Jon Pyke of the Process Factory and the Workflow Management Coalition has a great article out on ebizQ right now, about the XPDL Standard as the "silent workhorse of BPM." I've had lots of comments on it, so make sure... Read More..
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Ovum Comment on Cisco-WebEx Acquisition

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By Elizabeth Book on March 15, 2007 2:50 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Thanks to Sara Kaufman for this information. Jan Dawson, VP of the U.S. Enterprise Practice at Ovum, who closely follows Cisco, sees this move as the latest front in the war between Cisco and Microsoft over Unified Communications, following last... Read More..
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Cisco's Charlie Giancarlo on Today's Acquisition of Web 3.0 Developer WebEx

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By Elizabeth Book on March 15, 2007 11:29 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Today, it was reported that Cisco has purchased WebEx. This is clearly a very interesting development, and part of Cisco's "Web 3.0" collaboration strategy, which also smacks of kinds of things Microsoft's Jeff Raikes was saying yesterday about their acquisition... Read More..
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Business Objects Stays Independent (Today)

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By Elizabeth Book on March 14, 2007 12:28 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I said I would expand on what I said earlier about Business Objects. If you were to ask Paul Clark, director of Business Objects ' corporate product marketing, you would think that Business Objects just hates all this acquisition talk.... Read More..
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Hyperion's Predictive Interactive Analytics

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By Elizabeth Book on March 14, 2007 10:20 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
John Brkopac, techical product marketing director for Hyperion, explained the attributes of Hyperion's System 9 BI+ offering. John said that the BI+ offering is the "broadest BI offering on the marketplace. Most companies are happy to just get a report... Read More..
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Celequest Cognos' Flexible Streaming Data Stores

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By Elizabeth Book on March 14, 2007 9:50 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I met with Jim Hare, Celequest's VP for business development (who, like me, is a veteran of the military-industrial complex!), to chat about what's been going on with Celequest since it was acquired by Cognos in January of this year.... Read More..
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SAP: Infusing Business Processes With the Intelligence of Analytics

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By Elizabeth Book on March 13, 2007 3:25 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Still here in inexplicably sunny Chicago (65 degrees!) at the Gartner BI Summit, and my last blog entry of the day is about the SAP representatives I just spoke with (Don't worry, I'll blog more later or tomorrow about some... Read More..
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IBM's Third Generation Data Warehousing Strategy

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By Elizabeth Book on March 13, 2007 12:25 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Today I met with Marc Andrews, IBM's program director for data warehousing, about his company's announcement today regarding its new generation strategy of data warehousing. The annoucement has four parts: First, IBM plans to provide access to aggregated, clensed data... Read More..
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Actuate's Operational Performance Management, Open Source and IBM SOA/BI Initiative

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By Elizabeth Book on March 13, 2007 9:27 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I met with Actuate's Nobby Akiha here at the Gartner BI Summit, and I was particularly impressed with how his company entered the BI space simply from the reporting side of the application development paradigm. He said that the goal... Read More..
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How to Define Business Intelligence

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By Elizabeth Book on March 12, 2007 6:16 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
At the Hyatt Regency where the Gartner BI Summit is being held today, there's a lot of chatter going on about how to define business intelligence. The answer you get, of course, depends on which vendor you're speaking to. But... Read More..
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Delivering Analytical Master Data Management

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By Elizabeth Book on March 12, 2007 5:47 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
At the Gartner BI Summit, I met with representatives from Kalido, a vendor which sits squarely in the analytical (versus operational) master data management space. Kalido's goal is to recognize data, map it, and then provide it to business users,... Read More..
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OutlookSoft's Business Process Flows

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By Elizabeth Book on March 12, 2007 1:37 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I'm here in sunny Chicago (yes, it really is sunny!) at the Gartner BI Summit, and just met with Phil Wilmington, the CEO of OutlookSoft, to hear his company's latest news, a debut of a unified application platform for BI.... Read More..
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Blogging Live from Gartner Business Intelligence

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By Elizabeth Book on March 8, 2007 2:31 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
It's time for the Gartner BI Summit in lovely and chilly Chicago. I've got a jam-packed schedule of interviews and meetings with some real players in the business integration space, which include (but is certainly not limited to) SAP, Cognos,... Read More..
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Human-Centric Collaborative Processes

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By Elizabeth Book on March 7, 2007 10:54 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The BPM in Action panel today on Human-Centric collaborative processes is the first one to have engaged a fictional character as a speaker. That's right, Dr. Jeffrey Sterllings, is a "mildly eccentric IT and management guru," who happens to be... Read More..
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Is BAM Your Starting Point for Success in BPM?

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By Elizabeth Book on March 6, 2007 12:34 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Jump in on BPM in Action now to talk about business activity monitoring as a way to secure your business process management system! The description: Starting out in BPM can be a daunting task. Over the years the BPM community... Read More..
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BPM in the World of Enterprise 2.0 Live at 1:00pm: Don't Miss Sandy Kemsley, With Phil Gilbert, Ismael Ghalimi and Phil Larson

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By Elizabeth Book on March 6, 2007 10:22 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Don't miss the most 'unplugged' panel of the BPM in Action Virtual Conference. As Column 2's practically legendary blogger Sandy said yesterday: "We are doing this live on the air with no script and no slides, and the speakers only... Read More..
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Tony Baer on Oracle-Hyperion Buy

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By Elizabeth Book on March 5, 2007 5:11 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The 'always lucid, never stupid,' Tony Baer of OnStrategies offers his view on the Oracle acquisition of Hyperion that took place last week. It's a pleasure for ebizQ to offer it to you here. Tony's thoughts seem to agree with... Read More..
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BPM in Action Starts TOMORROW!

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By Elizabeth Book on March 5, 2007 12:28 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Tomorrow is the culmination of months of preparation by ebizQ and our partners, to bring together the best and the brightest stars of the BPM landscape at the BPM in Action Virtual Conference. This means you! We include our readers... Read More..
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Vendor Chatter from Cognos, Cartesis, SAS and OutlookSoft: Oracle Acquires Hyperion

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By Elizabeth Book on March 1, 2007 3:18 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Business Intelligence/Performance Management vendor Hyperion got bought today by Oracle for $3.3 Billion. Did you know 12,000 companies use Hyperion software including 91 of the Fortune 100? Raw news here. Meanwhile, several companies, including Cartesis, SAS, Cognos, and OutlookSoft got... Read More..
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