MWD Advisors - Blog Archive for December (2011)

There were 9 blog postings during December (2011):

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2012 Outlook: Collaboration
As we reach the end of 2011, the time comes for us MWD analysts to look ahead and offer our perspectives on what 2012 will bring for our research areas. To briefly reflect on the year that has passed, it has been—as we anticipated—a big...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 1st December '11

2012 Outlook: Business Process Management
In last year’s BPM outlook, we predicted that 2011 would be a year when the progress of BPM into mainstream industry adoption would continue apace—and that has certainly come to pass. We also highlighted that we expected a very large...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 1st December '11

2012 Outlook: Analytics and Information Management
In our 2011 Outlook we predicted that investment in Analytics and Information Management (AIM) technologies would remain strong despite the challenging economic backdrop as companies looked to sweat their enterprise data to help support key...
Helena Schwenk, MWD Advisors | 1st December '11

Progress buys Corticon, adds another RPM puzzle piece
Progress Software announced today its acquisition of Corticon, the last remaining pure-play business rules management (BRM) technology provider of any size. Terms were not disclosed, but the company had recently been on a strong growth path –...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 5th December '11

Kofax captures Singularity
Today document capture specialist Kofax announced its acquisition of UK-based BPM and case management technology vendor Singularity. This comes on the heels of Lexmark’s acquisition of Dutch BPM technology vendor Pallas Athena – another...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 6th December '11

Salesforce targets the small business market with Do.com
Yesterday I was briefed by Salesforce.com on their latest SaaS-based product in the collaboration space, Do.com. A result of their acquisition of Manymoon back in February, Do.com is a social project collaboration tool for small groups of up to 15...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 6th December '11

Can Oracle finally succeed in the enterprise collaboration market?
In October at Openworld, Oracle announced the release of its new social collaboration platform, Oracle Social Network (OSN), with a (rather awkward) demo of the product by Larry Ellison. Yesterday, I finally got the chance to look a little bit...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 16th December '11

Mindjet "socialises" collaborative work management with Mindjet Connect and Cohuman
A couple of days ago I had an update call with Mindjet, the company that is best known for its mind mapping client application, Mind Manager. Historically, I’ve always found it slightly awkward to position the company in the broader...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 16th December '11

Telligent acquires Leverage Software
On Monday, Dallas-based online communities vendor Telligent announced its acquisition of Leverage Software in a move designed to bolster Telligent’s opportunity in this fiercely competitive market. The acquisition, which brings together two...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 21st December '11