Business Process Management News & Articles

Following IBM’s release of new tax compliance software, Autonomy has licensed its IDOL technology to the IRS to keep track of companies’ tax liabilities. While it might be difficult to secure Federal IT contracts now, it could be about to get a lot harder.

SharePoint is many things to many people, including Microsoft. But there are some things it just really shouldn't do on its own. And Business Process Management is one of them.

With the release of SharePoint 2010 fast approaching, there’s been more research on how it might help enterprises especially in the area business process management. Oracle has also added to its business process portfolio while data security is still a major concern.

A lot has been said over recent months as to whether SMBs are taking to cloud computing or not. Whether they like it or not though, it seems both Microsoft and IBM are going to take them there anyway. There is also much still to be said about SMBs and SharePoint 2010.

After two months in beta SAP (news, site) has made their real-time business collaboration application StreamWork -- known as 12Sprints in beta -- generally available enabling up to 30 users to get together virtually to analyze data from across the enterprise and from different applications.

This week AvePoint released a migration tool for moving Lotus Notes content into SharePoint 2010, while the markets wait for Oracle's Q3 results. Meanwhile, Open Text makes your documents mobile.

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.