Business Process Management News & Articles

After weeks of rumors, Google (news, site) finally launched Google Apps Marketplace, their new online store for business applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps.

The launch will add an aggressive edge to their Google Apps marketing push, and will also put pressure on other cloud stores like Salesforce.com’s AppExchange and Apple’s AppStore.

The release date for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is out and about, but not everyone is happy with some of the details. Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company has ambitions with this release for a fully functioning Office in the cloud.

Bamboo Solutions (news, site) is offering a way to simplify the automation and management your business processes from within SharePoint. Like to do things the easy way? So do we. Let's have a look.

A new partnership between UK-based Oracle consultancy Mokum and document management software vendor Version One (news, site) means that Oracle Financials clients will be able to access Version One directly from their Oracle (news, site) system.

The recent release of Optical Image Technology’s (OIT) upgraded DocFinity adds electronic Forms to the document management software that it launched in March 2009 after a ground upwards rebuild.

If you haven’t sorted out your document management issues then AIIM suggests you might look at document management service companies. Business process management and software is quickly becoming mainstream.

Last week we saw a considerable amount of movement in the document management software industry, not the least of which was the closure of the Xerox –ACS deal. The wheeling-and-dealing continues this week with the acquisition of AmberPoint by Oracle while AIIM and Gartner get back into gear with some research published recently.

The acquisition by Xerox (news, site) of business process outsourcing giant ACS has been given final approval after a majority of shareholders from both companies gave the go-ahead.

Building on its Application Integration Architecture (AIA) solution, Oracle (news, site)  has just announced the availability of a Process Integration Pack (PIP) between its Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its suite of enterprise planning resource software JD Edwards Enterprise One.

In the world of Document Management two of the hottest topics are cloud computing and security. Interestingly, however, it seems that according to a report from Forrester we're not taking to cloud storage at all, and we also discovered that data security is increasingly troublesome. Could it be that there's a link between the two?

Our new weekly column -- SMB Tech Roll Up -- provides you with news about the small and medium business sector, focusing on document management, collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 topics.

This week sees IBM promising more for SMBs, Xerox making moves on the European document management market,  IT managers facing new pressures to produce results and other interesting news from key SMB players.

It's a new year and we bring you a new weekly column with a roll-up of what’s happening in the global document management software space. This series will focus on major news events, research and trends, it will complement another new column which will focus on document management and enterprise 2.0 news exclusively for SMBs (stay tuned).

Despite a slow start to the year this week has brought some interesting research from Gartner and AIIM, a stack of fancy awards for Autonomy and some intriguing new partnerships.

Like the beginning of any other year there’s been a lot of crystal ball gazing about what will and will not happen in the year ahead. Gartner (news, site) is no exception with their latest report on business process management highlighting what they see as the five major trends in business process management for 2010 and beyond.

Document management software vendor Cabinet NG (news, site) has just announced it is going green by integrating with Include Software, which specializes in business process and business management software to the landscape industry.

Even before the beta release last November of SharePoint 2010 there had been a rush to build integrators and connectors for SharePoint. This year, the first of them comes in the shape of Skelta (news, site) which has just announced that its BPM. NET product will support SharePoint 2010.