Business Process Management News & Articles

Oracle may have outlined how the inability to break-down information silos was negating many of the positive benefits of the cloud yesterday, but today Forbes highlights yet again the business value of the cloud, particularly in facilitation with effective enterprise collaboration.

Keeping in mind that only yesterday, France officially entered recession again, the announcement today that BonitaSoft has managed to raise another US$ 13 million in a Series C funding round led by the French government’s digital agency shows to some extent what is expected of the business process management vendor in the future.

This year’s SugarCRM annual gathering starts today and like every year there are vendors lining up to announce the good things they are doing with SugarCRM either now, or in the coming year. First off the market this year is Colosa, which has just announced the release of ProcessMaker SugarCRM Edition.

What large company doesn't need to make itself more efficient? However businesses define that term, and no matter what sector they are in, companies like Oracle are working to make their business decision management more unified and standardized.

Workflow process management provider, Interneer has released its Intellect 7 Platform. The updated platform aims to advance the automation of business-critical processes, especially those associated with cloud applications and mobile apps.
 

This week in document management we heard how SpringCM has upgraded its content security to enable safer mobile computing. OpenText was also busy this week with not one, or two, but four different upgrades and releases, while Ademero upgraded Content Central to v6.5. Meanwhile, we sat down with Alfresco to find out about the future of cloud computing.

It seems that OpenText has moved up a gear this month with four different upgrades or releases on the way. Today it has announced the release of BPM Smart Process Applications and OpenText  SecureiX , while tomorrow we will see OpenText InfoFusion and OpenText Archive.

CA Technologies has released an updated version of its Workload Automation software for automating business process workloads. Enhancements include a revised user interface, and expanded application and program support.

Since October, Laserfiche has been talking up a storm over the new Laserfiche 9 and while a great deal of information has been released since then, the full potential of the product only became apparent this week when CEO Nien-Ling Wacker officially released the new product at Empower 2013.

Mobile, BYOD and cloud have converged into a perfect storm of raised user expectation -- and nary a corporate IT manager can escape the downpour. 

If we looked in our crystal ball to predict cultural trends in 2013, we’d see humans bootstrapping, staycations, crafting, couponing, growing beards and lots of bespoke and do-it-your-self-ness. These trends reflect a need for veracity in an unsettled and volatile word. Since technology is invented and implemented by humans, 2013’s technology trends also reflect our yearning for authenticity.

It is traditional at this time of year to take some time to assess the closing year and to look ahead. No surprise to those who follow my CMSWire article series, I see tremendous value and continuing opportunities for applying case management in 2013 and beyond.

The award for special delivery arguably goes to Santa Claus, but this holiday season delivery may also prove to be the competitive edge for retailers.

There were many issues addressed this afternoon at Nuxeo World around the release of v5.6, Nuxeo World, which is currently under way in Paris, gave many their first real look at some of the highlights, including the Content Routing feature.

Continuing our discussion from last month’s article in my series on case management, we’re ready to move forward with insights into how case management can help lenders resolve business challenges, including obstacles brought about by the recent financial market crisis.