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Access Group increases cloud footprint with acquisition of TeamSeer

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0100

On April 18th, Access Group acquired the SaaS-based staff planner and team management solution, TeamSeer, thus increasing their aCloud subsrriber base. This makes Access's ninth acquisition in recent... [Read More...]

QPR Software and CGI form process analysis partnership

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0100

QPR Software announced today that they are to build a partnership with CGI to provide a process analysis service in Finland. This partnership will be based around QPR's ProcessAnalyzer tool. The... [Read More...]

HandySoft change their name to BizFlow Corp

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:00:00 +0100

On March 11th, HandySoft formally announced a change of name to BizFlow Corp Daniel Myung, CEO, said, We are excited about the change in name to BizFlow Corporation. Since 1999, the name has been... [Read More...]

Access announce aCloud CRM

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:00:00 +0100

Access announced yesterday a further addition to their offerings in the cloud with the launch of aCloud CRM following the announcement of the aCloud platform and the launch of aCloud Insight in... [Read More...]

Access Group acquires thankQ

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0100

Mid-market ERP provider, Access Group (Access) acquired fundraising and CRM software specialist, thankQ, in a £2.7m deal at the beginning of December 2012. The acquisition, which is the seventh deal... [Read More...]

Sage announces new European organisation to drive mid-market growth

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:00:00 +0100

Sage Group plc announced, on January 31st 2013, the formation of a new organisation to drive its growth across the European mid-market. With Christophe Letellier at its helm, the new European... [Read More...]

RFID middleware in the cloud - GlobeRanger announces the release of iMotion Stratus

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0100

Just before Christmas, GlobeRanger announced iMotion Stratus, the cloud-based version of its iMotion Edgeware Platform. It delivers the features of the iMotion server-based platform from the cloud.... [Read More...]

QPR release new version of their ABPD product

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:00:00 +0100

QPR Software announced on November 6th the release of a new version of ProcessAnalyzer, their ABPD product. Version 4.0 provides a web user interface (UI) with collaborative functionalities targeted... [Read More...]

Bizagi release a new version of their free Process Modelling tool

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:00:00 +0100

On November 7th, Bizagi announced the immediate release of a new version, Bizagi Process Modeler (2.4). Enhancements include the following: Support for Rich formatting options such as bold and... [Read More...]

QPR Software and ProcessGold enter strategic partnership

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:00:00 +0100

QPR Software continues their development of the Automated Business Process Discovery (ABPD) market by announcing on October 17th a strategic partnership agreement with ProcessGold. ProcessGold are a... [Read More...]

Another ABPD move from QPR Software

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0100

QPR Software announced on February 23rd the launch its Automated Business Process Discovery solution for Salesforce.com. Using data logged by Salesforce.com. QPR ProcessAnalyzer provides a view of... [Read More...]

QPR Software announce good sales figures for 2011

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:00:00 +0100

QPR Software announced on February 16th their unaudited accounts for 2011. The highlights are: Net sales showing 8.7% growth of 2010 Operating profit growth of 0.4% over 2010 Operating profit margin... [Read More...]

And another one is acquired!

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Kofax plc, a provider of capture driven business process automation solutions, announced on December 7th 2012 that it has acquired Singularity Limited, a provider of business process management (BPM)... [Read More...]

Progress make another acquisition foray into the Process market

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Progress Software Corporation announced on December 5th that it has completed the acquisition of Corticon Technologies, Inc., one of the leading Business Rules Management System (BRMS) vendors. Terms... [Read More...]

Bosch complete acquisition of Inubit AG

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100

So of you may remember me posting a blog about Bosch's intention to acquire. Inubit AG (Bosch plans acquisition of inubit AG, July 25th 2011). Well, on October 24th the Bosch Group announced that... [Read More...]

Singularity announce new version of TotalAgility

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Singularity has, on October 4th, announced the launch of the latest version of their Business Process Management (BPM) and Case Management suite, TotalAgility v5.3. Peter Whibley, Product Marketing... [Read More...]

Progress combine BPM into its OpenEdge development environment

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Progress has announced the release of OpenEdge Release 11 platform for building dynamic, business-process enabled software applications that can be securely deployed across any platform, any mobile... [Read More...]

Oracle announce Process Accelerator based on their BPM Suite

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:00:00 +0100

Oracle today unveiled, at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Process Accelerators, aimed and simplifying and accelerating time-to-value for customers' business process management initiatives. They are built on... [Read More...]

Progress announces a way to exploit SOA in today's changing business world.

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Progress has announced a pre-integrated enterprise integration solution that they claim reduces the time it takes to deploy IT infrastructure and to derive value from the implementation. They have... [Read More...]

Progress announce 2 new solution accelerators

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Progress has announced two new solution accelerators: the Progress Apama FX eCommerce solution for banks and brokers, and the Progress Time-in-Transit solution for Supply Chain Managers. The FX... [Read More...]

QPR make another move to strengthen their Process Automation services

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:00:00 +0100

QPR Software Plc announced at the end of July that they were to acquire their process automation partner Nobultec Ltd and purchase 100 % of its shares. Nobultec is a service company that specializes... [Read More...]

Bosch plans acquisition of inubit AG

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:00:00 +0100

The Bosch Group announced on July 18th that they have signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares of inubit AG, a business process management (BPM) vendor. The transaction is subject to... [Read More...]

Fiorano announce new releases

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:00:00 +0100

Fiorano Software announce this week the release of version 9.3 of its JMS messaging middleware (FioranoMQ) and SOA Platform (Fiorano ESB/SOA Platform). Fiorano SOA 9.3 implements several new features... [Read More...]

Epicor Agrees to be Acquired by Apax Partners

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

Epicor Software Corporation, one of the leading providers of enterprise business software solutions for the mid-market, announced on April 4th that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be... [Read More...]

TIBCO have a good quarter one

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:00:00 +0100

TIBCO announced their Q1 results on March 30th. Their license revenue grew by 29%, its fastest pace in a decade for a Q1. From a geographic viewpoint, growth in the Americas was very... [Read More...]

Inspirational Marketing using RFID

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:00:00 +0100

I came across an interesting article by Claire Swedberg today, first printed in RFID Journal. I am always fascinated by the uses people find for RFID Journal and this one hit the right spot. During... [Read More...]

QPR Software add SAP specific version to ProcessAnalyzer

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:00:00 +0100

QPR Software announced on March 14th 2011 SAP ProcessAnalysis. I wrote in February (Automating Business Process Discovery) about QPR’s ProcessAnalyzer. QPR have tuned their new product discover... [Read More...]

Poker and RFID!!!

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:00:00 +0100

I came across an interesting article in the RFID Journal through a reader service I belong to called RFID NORDIC Daily News. It really caught my imagination: using RFID in international poker... [Read More...]

SAP CIO Survey reveals need for a renewed focus on Innovation

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:00:00 +0100

SAP announced today the results of a CIO study conducted by the company across EMEA, which reveals the need for a renewed focus on innovation. According to the study, surveyed organisations agreed on... [Read More...]

NFC added to Google Apps

rss@it-analysis.com (Simon Holloway, Bloor Research) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:00:00 +0100

NXP announced on December 6th a strategic collaboration with Google to provide a complete open source software stack for Near Field Communications (NFC). The Key highlights of the announcement are:... [Read More...]