MWD Advisors - Blog Archive for November (2012)

There were 6 blog postings during November (2012):

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Actuate ups the analytics ante with Quiterian buy
Last week, Actuate, the company behind the open source Eclipse-based BIRT reporting project, acquired Quiterian, a Spanish-based software provider of advanced analytic technology. The acquisition provides Actuate with some sought-after advanced...
Helena Schwenk, MWD Advisors | 1st November '12

IBM's Analytic Answers - entry level analytics for mid-sized organisations
While last month’s Information-on-Demand conference was short on very big announcements, behind the scenes IBM did make a number of discreet and altogether quieter product launches. One of them—the soon-to-be-released Analytic...
Helena Schwenk, MWD Advisors | 8th November '12

The power of sharing - J.Boye Aarhus 2012
Last week I attended the J.Boye Aarhus 2012 conference, where I was giving a “state of the nation” for collaboration software and practices, looking at where we are today and coming trends for 2013. It was my second visit to the Aarhus...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 12th November '12

Is BPM part of EA, or EA part of BPM?
A few days ago, I weighed into a discussion in the BPM Group LinkedIn group. Someone had asked the question “what’s your opinion? is BPM part of EA [Enterprise Architecture] or EA part of BPM?”. Well, I took the bait – I...
Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 19th November '12

If you build it, will they really come? Getting the conditions right for adoption of social collaboration
Businesses are increasingly recognising the potential benefits of using social collaboration tools as part of a strategy to improve levels of collaboration within their organisation. What’s more, it really couldn’t be easier to purchase...
Angela Ashenden, MWD Advisors | 21st November '12

SAP 360 Customer - evolving the use case of HANA and CRM
During its recent Sapphire conference SAP announced the launch of 360 Customer, an offering that brings together a number of technology components and applications – not least SAP CRM running on HANA –   to help organisations change the...
Helena Schwenk, MWD Advisors | 28th November '12