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Version 5.3 of PegaRULES Process Commander (PRPC) is the latest release of Pegasystems' long-established Business Process Management (BPM) solution. Across its product portfolio, PRPC continues to combine the dual functionality of the executable, business-driven flexibility of a leading BPM solution, with the core capabilities of the company's well-respected PegaRULES Rules Engine. Within the Process Management sector, Pegasystems is something of a unique entity, in that it is positioned as a lead player
Technology Audits - published 10/12/2007 - Andy Kellett
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IBM BPM Portfolio is IBM's solution for Business Process Management (BPM) involving people, content, and systems. It primarily comprises components from WebSphere v.6.1 and FileNet P8 v.4.0.2, plus other IBM software, all made interoperable at run-time through services integration, and a layer of common modelling and monitoring tools that provide a single interface to the solution. WebSphere is the home-grown product that historically emphasised business integration and workflow and has evolved to includ
Technology Audits - published 07/12/2007 - Michael Azoff
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This White Paper provides an introduction to the breadth of solutions provided by Progress Software Inc. (Progress) in support of the implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It provides the context around the discrete products delivered by Progress, some of which are described in Butler Groups Technology Audits.
White Papers - published 05/12/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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UK companies are failing to exploit the business opportunities of Web 2.0 and social networking because senior managers dont know their Facebook from their PowerBook. Instead of seeing the potential for recruitment or communication, human resources managers are more likely to discipline staff for time-wasting as they visit YouTube, MySpace, and Bebo in work hours. The response of 65% of UK firms to the social networking explosion was simply to ban access outright, according to a survey of 300 UK HR deci
TECHwatch Articles - published 04/12/2007 - Tim Jennings
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Responding to SAPs xApps, Oracle is introducing its own architecture for generating composite applications. The new framework, called Oracle Application Integration Architecture, which is based on Oracles Fusion Middleware SOA Suite, provides enterprise business objects and services that can be used to piece together processes exposed from Oracle applications.
TECHwatch Articles - published 04/12/2007 - Tim Jennings
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Working in tandem Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle SOA Suite combine to provide Oracles Business Process Management (BPM) solution. Across the product set Oracle BPM supports the end-to-end modelling, execution, measurement, and management requirements of business processes, as they directly relate to the operational needs of business users. The product has full execution and round-tripping capabilities, which allow business professionals to model, work with, improve, and optimise the functional performance
Technology Audits - published 30/11/2007 - Andy Kellett
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Globalisation is having an increasing impact on the IT domain, in terms of both supply and demand, and it is important that organisations in all sectors assimilate this trend into their IT strategic planning cycles. Talking recently to Peter Korsten, EMEA head of IBMs Institute for Business Value (IBV), he gave some interesting insights into how the company is seizing the opportunity to restructure itself as a globally-integrated enterprise. For IBM, this means creating global delivery centres which can
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/11/2007 - Tim Jennings
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ciboodle is Customer Interaction Management (CIM) software, focusing on the management of a wide range of interactions with customers, including e-mail, telephone, and Web chat. The solution is based on Graham Technologys established Business Process Management (BPM) product, GT-X, but bundles customer-facing building blocks, such as an agent desktop, customer, product, and agent management, work routing, and case handling. It also incorporates executive dashboards, and a sales engine. The products con
Technology Audits - published 26/11/2007 - Mike Thompson
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AquaLogic BPM (ALBPM) is used to develop, deploy, execute, manage, and optimise a companys critical operational business processes. The solution enables a top-down approach to Business Process Management (BPM). The software includes all functionality required to design best-practice models, turn those models into executable process applications, manage them in production, and to measure and analyse performance data about the process. Both business and IT professionals can use ALBPM to orchestrate servic
Technology Audits - published 26/11/2007 - Mike Thompson
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The Microsoft Business Process Management (BPM) platform is based on three main product categories: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. BizTalk Server provides system-centric process design and orchestration capabilities, an integrated Business Rules Engine (BRE) and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) functionality; SharePoint and the Office suite provide human-workflow capabilities and end-user interfaces; and the .NET framework in
Technology Audits - published 26/11/2007 - Michael Azoff
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Software AG has enhanced its Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) product following the acquisition of webMethods, which has filled previous gaps and is now capable of delivering a sophisticated and rounded solution. The delivery platform is based on Eclipse, which offers an industry-standard platform: the Eclipse environment has the advantage of giving end users a familiar experience, as well as exploiting the many available plug-ins. webMethods BPMS is designed to be used by non-programmers and has
Technology Audits - published 22/11/2007 - Michael Azoff
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Metastorm BPM v7 is the first major release of the older e-Work product that incorporates the technology obtained with the acquisition of CommerceQuest, and as such is now a full-featured Business Process Management (BPM) solution at the system-to-system level as well as the human-to-human, and human-to-system levels. Best-of-breed BPM needs the capability of delivering an extensive range of core business services that cover the areas of process design, modelling, build, delivery, and management. Effecti
Technology Audits - published 12/11/2007 - Mike Thompson
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Progress Actional SOA Management products address the need for visibility into the health of the SOA environment, the impact that the current service levels are having on business processes, and the ability to enforce business policies (such as security and compliance policies). The products are based on technology gained through the acquisition of Actional by Progress in 2006, but these have been significantly repackaged to provide greater adaptability to market requirements. The adoption of SOA is cur
Technology Audits - published 09/11/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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In order for any vendor organisation to have a believable message in the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) space it has to address the issue of modelling. Microsoft has long derided the use of Unified Modeling Language (UML) as over-complex. Microsoft detractors would point out that the antipathy to UML was more to do with the fact that its competitors had taken it on board, and that UML created an abstraction from the underlying technology. Microsoft has always been a supporter of the integrated layer
OpinionWire Articles - published 09/11/2007 - Mike Thompson
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Infor has acquired the bulk it needed to become a contender in the enterprise business applications ring, and it is now showing off its technology development muscles with its Open SOA strategy.
TECHwatch Articles - published 07/11/2007 - Datamonitor Analysts
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Microsoft has announced a new roadmap for the development of composite applications that envisions its recently unveiled Workflow Foundation models becoming directly executable within the next major release of BizTalk.
TECHwatch Articles - published 07/11/2007 - Datamonitor Analysts
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Microsoft is to let small pieces of its Office suite loose on the Web in the form of Microsoft Office Live Workspace, a service to provide space to store, share, and comment on documents. However, unlike competing services from the likes of Google and Adobe, anyone wanting to create or edit a document with Microsoft will still have to use their installed Office applications.
TECHwatch Articles - published 07/11/2007 - Datamonitor Analysts
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At the recent Butler Group and OASIS conference on SOA standards and their impact on Public Sector organisations, one of the speakers described the initiative being taken by Japans government to use SOA to increase the number of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) that conduct direct B2B electronic commerce. Some 99% of all businesses in Japan fall into the Small or Medium category, and currently only 8% of these have the capability to conduct B2B electronic commerce. The governments target is t
OpinionWire Articles - published 05/11/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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For the same reason that political parties hold their rallies around this time of year (squeezing them in between the end of the holiday season and the start of the Christmas wind-down), this is also the peak time of year for vendors to hold their user conferences, and to brief analysts on their past successes and future strategies.
Having been briefed by a significant number of SOA technology vendors, it is apparent that there is a remarkable consistency in the messages now being sent to the market: i
OpinionWire Articles - published 29/10/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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Since the start of the slow recovery from the dot.com crash of 2001, the assumption has been that new investments in IT would only be forthcoming if the resulting systems could demonstrate real additional value to the business. Underlying this is the need for better alignment of IT with business requirements, and a changing business and political landscape that inevitably means that systems must become more adaptable and interoperable. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) represents the architectural approacHC? Since the start of the slow recovery from the
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/09/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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Within a single organisation it would be possible (but not necessarily wise) to implement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) without considering the relevant standards and which ones should be deployed. Once interoperability with customers or between partners becomes a requirement it is difficult to avoid the discussion of standards. For public sector organisations there is a huge demand for widespread interoperability, both within national boundaries (with constant pressure for more joined up governme
OpinionWire Articles - published 13/09/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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The financial services industry, and the banking sector in particular, is traditionally one where most organisations invest heavily in developing their own IT solutions (even down to the infrastructure in many cases); yet it is also one that some of the major enterprise applications vendors have had their eyes on for some time. There are strong drivers for lowering the cost of IT within the sector, and for improving operational efficiency. This latter concept will dictate designing a new banking platform
Butler Group Review Articles - published 06/09/2007 - Teresa Jones
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Analysing information in many organisations is carried out retrospectively transactional data is copied into large data warehouses, and then queried to gain insight into the recent performance of the organisation. This can deliver significant value and the results can then be used to guide future decision-making. However, in an increasing range of organisations, including the financial services sector to the defence sector, this ability to simply analyse historical data is likely to provide valuable in
OpinionWire Articles - published 16/08/2007 - Teresa Jones
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Last week, Sir David Varney, the former chairman of HM Revenue and Customs, was appointed to the new role of public service transformation adviser to the UKs Prime Minister. The appointment comes on the back of the publication of the Varney report in November 2006, which set out a vision for improving public services whilst reducing costs, enabled by modern technology. The report was commissioned by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and now the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Therefore, the new app
OpinionWire Articles - published 09/08/2007 - Sarah Burnett
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IBM announced last week that it will grant universal and perpetual access to some of its Intellectual Property (IP), particularly that which may be relevant when implementing some interoperability standards. This contrasts with a recent OpinionWire article from my colleague Michael Azoff entitled Microsofts actions on free open source software are revealed where Microsoft was shown to be persuading corporate users of certain Free Open Source Software (FOSS) to pay a licence fee for its use, whic
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/07/2007 - Teresa Jones
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