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Metastorm BPM v7.6 - focusing on the user

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

This is the third in a series of articles I shall be producing based on a major piece of research being undertaken by Bloor Research on the BPMS market. What is in the new release of Metastorm and how do their USPs add up? [Read More...]

US DOD issue an RFP for Active RFID

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0100

In an article in the RFID Journal on August 26th 2008, Mary Catherine O'Connor reported that nearly two years after it issued a RFI to Active RFID equipment vendors� [Read More...]

Collaboration for Construction with Union Square Software

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

After years of being slow to change, the construction industry has finally started to appreciate the importance of information technology as a tool in the construction process. This is not only at HQ but also on site. [Read More...]

TIBCO - where to with their BPMS suite?

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

This is the second in a series of articles I shall be producing based on a major piece of research being undertaken by Bloor Research on the BPMS market [Read More...]

Catching up on M30 with Vitria

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

This is the first in a series of articles I shall be producing on the BPMS market. My thanks go to Dale Skeen, Vitria's CTO for the recent briefing [Read More...]

Microgen - an "Aptitude" for verticalisation

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

At the beginning of July 2008, I met with Neil Thomson, CTO, Martin Redington, Director of Product Marketing and Ian Crombie, Principal Consultant of Microgen to be briefed on the company's BPMS product Aptitude. [Read More...]

IBM to acquire ILOG

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:00:00 +0100

On July 28th 2008, IBM and ILOG announced that they had signed an agreement regarding to the proposed acquisition of ILOG by IBM. [Read More...]

HandySoft introduce Dynamic Business Application functionality for BizFlow 11.3

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:05:00 +0100

HandySoft Global Corp announced on July 15th 2008 the release of BizFlow 11.3. This new release provides enhanced visibility and productivity for business users and managers. [Read More...]

Oracle BEA Strategy

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

At the beginning of July 2008, Oracle made a presentation on their product strategy since the acquisition of BEA. [Read More...]

Appian gain new venture funding

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Appian announced on July 14th 2008 that it has received $10 million from Novak Biddle Venture Partners in the first round of venture funding in Appian's nine-year history. [Read More...]

Siemens RFID middleware portfolio

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:05:00 +0100

In my research on the RFID Middleware market, I came across a number of vendors that were new to me. In a series of articles, I will provide a short overview of these products. The eighth of these is Siemens, A&D Division. [Read More...]

Reva announce new version of TAP

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

On July 15th 2008, Reva announced the GA of its new Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) appliance, the TAP 721 and at the same time announced the release of version 2.3 of the TAP software for all models. [Read More...]

The Magic Story

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Magic Software Enterprises is a leading provider of business integration, application development and deployment tools. [Read More...]

Ubisense and Alien Technology: RTLS at a leading car manufacturer

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

On July 10th 2008, a joint press release was made by Ubisense and Alien Technology on the deployment of RTLS and RFID solution at a leading car manufacturer. [Read More...]

Apriso - Making MES and ERP work together

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

At beginning of June 2008, I had a briefing with Gordon Benzie, Public & Analyst Relations Director, and Jean-Luc Delcuvellerie, Director of MES Product Management, Apriso. [Read More...]

Allixon URIS platform

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

In my research on the RFID middleware market, I came across a number of vendors that were new to me. In a series of articles, I will provide a short overview of these products. The eighth of these is Allixon Corporation. [Read More...]

TrueVUE Platform from Vue Technologies

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:00:00 +0100

In my research on the RFID Middleware market, I came across a number of vendors that were new to me. In a series of articles, I will provide a short overview of these products. The seventh of these is Vue Technologies. [Read More...]

Operations Management from Symphony Metreo

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:55:00 +0100

One of the forgotten but vital areas of manufacturing is operations management of the processes that happen between the taking of orders and their delivery back to a customer. [Read More...]

OATSystems acquired by Checkpoint

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

I have just received a press release from Checkpoint Systems and OATSystems which announced that the former had entered into a definitive Agreement to acquire the latter. The all cash transaction is expected to close within two weeks. [Read More...]

IDS Scheer: ARIS adds new features and builds partnerships

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Last week saw IDS Scheer make 4 announcements at ARIS ProcessWorld 2008 in Berlin. [Read More...]

SkandSoft Technologies SETU

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

In my research on the RFID Middleware market, I came across a number of vendors that were new to me. In a series of articles, I will provide a short overview of these products. The sixth of these is SkandSoft Technologies. [Read More...]

Advanco RFID Controller (ARC)

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

ARC is a certified Device Controller for SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure, which runs on all Microsoft Windows platforms (32 bit or 64 bit) [Read More...]

Supply Insight

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Supply Insight provides various RFID services to their customers including RFID assessment, RFID project management, enterprise integration, technical consulting and RFID implementation support. [Read More...]

Bloor Research release a Technical Report and Market Update on RFID middleware

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Bloor Research has just released a technical report and market update covering RFID middleware. But what does this mean? [Read More...]

Appian for SharePoint: another link to MOSS

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Appian announced on June 2nd 2008 the availability of Appian for SharePoint. Thus Appian become another independent BPMS vendor that has decided to provide tighter integration to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). [Read More...]

SNAPping with GlobeRanger

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Those of you who have been involved in initial pilots and multi-site deployments involving fairly standard and unvarying workflows know that that some of today's RFID Middleware is like a sledgehammer to crack a nut! Meet SNAP. [Read More...]

Metastorm release a new version of the BPM suite

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Metastorm have just announced the release of version 7.6 of their BPM Suite. This follows a trend in the BPMS market of major independent vendors providing extended support for Microsoft Office Suite 2007 and particularly SharePoint Server. [Read More...]

Loftware - Print Server, Label Manager and Connector

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:00:00 +0100

In my research on the RFID middleware market, I came across a number of vendors that were new to me. The fourth of these is Loftware, who market enterprise printing solutions. [Read More...]

Innovating NFC in the UK with Innovision

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

Near Field Communications is becoming the next big thing. For those of you using Oyster cards and other smart cards or holding a new Nokia phone you may be aware that this is technology behind them. [Read More...]

WareLite BOSS

Simon Holloway, Bloor Research — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:00:00 +0100

In my research on the RFID Middleware market, I came across a number of vendors that were new to me. The third of these is WareLite, who provide a grid-based event driven integration product called BOSS that sits upon a .NET platform. [Read More...]