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Oracle Unveils Plans for BEA
07. 2.2008

Bruce Silver

Oracle has sorted the BEA catalog into one of three buckets: 1) strategic, where BEA was superior to existing Fusion components or offered a new capability; 2) continue and converge, where BEA component would be maintained but eventually merged into Fusion; and 3) maintenance, mostly OEM offerings, which it seems Oracle wants to walk away from as soon as they can. The BEA installed base was reassured that...

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Kas Thomas

Oracle's New Plan to Save You Money
06.26.2008
Remember the classic slogans from Orwell's 1984: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." Perhaps we should now add, "Higher prices mean lower cost of ownership." I'm reading a well-known software company's quarterly report wherein the following rather noble-sounding statements are made...

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Fujitsu's Interstage Update is Fit for SaaS
06.25.2008

Sandy Kemsley

Fujitsu is releasing version 10 of its Interstage BPM, and I had a chance for an in-depth demo a few weeks ago in advance of the recent announcement. ...Most exciting, I think, is full support for multi-tenanting to allow for shared services and SaaS. Key new features in Studio V10 include...

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Bruce Silver

Intalio Powers BPM in the Cloud
06.25.2008
The most interesting keynote at last week's Intalio User Conference was by Greg Olson, founder of Coghead, a BPM-in-the-cloud service that uses Intalio as the process engine under the covers... You can define data, forms, and perform the usual set of database operations, so it's really easy to build a database app in the cloud...

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How to Get to Better Planning and Budgeting
June 1, 2008
by Ventana Research
A new Ventana Research report finds that most companies are falling short on the basics of performance management. Here are five sets of diagnostic questions as well as best practices for broader, more responsive and more effective planning and budgeting.

Intelligence on the Go: Mobile Delivery of BI
May 19, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Many BI vendors now offer modules that let you deliver just about any report to smart phones, but as a major retailer, a health care provider and a major government agency have discovered, practical, tactical wins are the key to mobile success.

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Oracle Outlines Roadmap For BEA Acquisition's Products
BEA's WebLogic will become Oracle's strategic application server and will undergo very little re-engineering, Oracle President Charles Phillips said.

Metastorm Upgrades BPM Suite
Version 7.6 of the Metastorm BPM strengthens the company's use of Microsoft desktop technologies, including Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office 2007.

Microsoft Unveils Innovation Management Initiative
The software maker's initiative is built on Office SharePoint Server 2007 and is a key component of Office Enterprise Project Management software.

Telelogic As Unit Of IBM Upgrades, Broadens Its Tools
Doors, for example, is a set of requirements management tools that track not only the software changes required in a product but any other changes as well

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