TweetDave Marquard, Janet Wall and Eric Herness from the IBM BPM team gave an analyst briefing today on BPM on the z/OS platform. At Impact earlier this year, we saw a merging of the Lombardi acquisition and WebSphere Process Server into a unified IBM BPM product, and this month, they released BPM on z/OS. This [...]
Also tagged mainframe, zOSTweetIBM and ILOG announced today that IBM will be acquiring ILOG for €10/share, or about $US340 million in total. IBM’s goal is to integrate ILOG’s business rules technology into their existing BPM and SOA offerings: When completed, the acquisition of ILOG will strengthen IBM’s BPM and SOA position by providing customers a full set of [...]
Also tagged ILOGTweetNicole Carrier of IBM, who was on the enterprise mashups panel yesterday, returned this morning to dig into more of the details behind mashups, particularly as implemented on their platform, Lotus Mashups (which I believe started life as QEDwiki). She started by defining mashups and widgets, then outlined what makes a mashup unique in terms [...]
Also tagged Nicole CarrierTweetDavid Berlind hosted a panel on enterprise mashups, with Michalene Todd of Serena, Nicole Carrier of IBM, Lauren Cooney of Microsoft (recently of IBM) and Charlotte Goldsbery of Denodo. I was supposed to moderate this panel, but when the vendors started treating it like a sponsored panel by switching out participants, and the conference organizers [...]
Also tagged Charlotte Goldsbery, David Berlind, Denodo, Lauren Cooney, Michalene Todd, Microsoft, Nicole Carrier, SerenaTweetI had a great opportunity today at lunch for a one-hour session with Jeff Schick, VP of social networking at IBM, and Joan DiMicco who came to IBM after doing media studies at MIT and is one of the key people behind Beehive. There were only seven of us plus these two quite technical IBM’ers [...]
Also tagged beehive, dogear, jeff schick, joan dimiccoTweetAlmost two years ago, I reported on the IBM acquisition of FileNet, wherein I quoted their plan to “integrate IBM’s BPM and SOA technologies with the FileNet platform”. I interpreted this to mean that FileNet BPM could finally get separated from its document-centric chains, and become the product that it should have been years ago. [...]
Also tagged BEA, FileNet, OracleTweetA press release this week from IBM announces that a preliminary Gartner report on application integration/middleware (AIM) and portal software has crowned IBM as the market leader based on 2004 licence revenue. Their figures put IBM’s share at around 37% of the worldwide market, with chief rivals BEA, Oracle and Microsoft trailing far behind at [...]
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