Business Benefits of BPM

IDG Research Services recently surveyed 400 IT executives: 100 in the U.S., 100 in Europe, and 200 in Asia-Pacific. Interestingly, when asked, 'Which business benefits did you derive by using BPM software in your past and current BPM initiatives,' most world wide respondents ranked reduced operating costs and improved productivity as their top responses and 26% of the global sample also reported a higher innovation rate.

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Updates from the Gartner BPM conference

The power of advanced decisioning to make processes simpler, more agile and smarter came up again and again. The effective application of business rules and advanced analytics, and the management of decisions in concert with processes ensure a separation of concerns and a more effective process.

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Those of us that are part of SOA-related projects where traditional business analysts (BA) are involved often find ourselves frustrated by the incongruence between the analyst’s approach to requirements gathering and the SOA design.  The problem arises because SOA models functionality of a business across multiple boundaries, whereas the business analyst wants to focus on a user’s needs.  One focus is tactical and the other is strategic.

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Enterprises need prepare for cloud with more SOA

Enterprise IT shops need to continue investing in service-oriented architecture skills and initiatives if they are to be able to take full advantage of the emergence of the cloud infrastructure, a top Gartner analyst has advised.

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SOA has been touted as the architecture pattern for the dynamic business environment. After half of decade of intense focus on SOA, Datamonitor considers an assessment of the progress made and discussion of the future trends to be warranted.

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If you're not sure what level of business intelligence your firm has reached, try the 'man sitting in the corner' test. If you ask for the answer to a question and somebody points to a guy in the corner and says you need to talk to him, you know you're at the bottom level. In such organisations, BI is the exclusive domain of information mavericks who control the tools and information for particular areas of the business. 

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Cost-conscious businesses are increasingly turning to business intelligence software, says a report from AMI Partners.

A report from research firm Access Markets International Partners suggests business intelligence software usage is gaining traction as a stand-alone product among U.S. businesses seeking a competitive edge.

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Microsoft's deal with Yahoo under which the software maker's new Bing search engine will be used to power Yahoo searches and Yahoo will sell premium advertising for both companies could be expanded overseas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.

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The customer facing content on the Business Continuity solutions pages have been updated with content around the Microsoft Site Recovery Solution. 

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Google Nov. 5 launched Google Commerce Search to let online retailers power their online stores with Google's search technology. Preparing for the holiday e-commerce rush, Google will host this enterprise search product on its own servers in the cloud to assuage customers' concerns about handling holiday traffic spikes. Smaller companies such as Endeca, Vivisimo, Coveo and Microsoft's Fast enterprise search division already duke it out in the e-commerce search vertical, but now they will have to contend with the goliath in search.

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