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Ford gets scrappage boost from modelling software

Ford has improved its understanding of its sales leads process using a business process modelling software from Metastorm.

Social network launched for business process managers

Software AG opened a beta version of its social network for business process management (BPM), a year after it first announced the service.

SAS, Accenture partner on predictive analytics

SAS Institute and Accenture are teaming up to form the Accenture SAS Analytics Group, a joint venture that will develop, implement and manage predictive analytics solutions. The venture is a "first for both companies," according to Accenture.

Severn Trent completes first phase of SAP implementation

Severn Trent completes first phase of SAP implementation

Severn Trent has completed the first phase of a major technology efficiency overhaul, switching on a central module of its new SAP enterprise resource planning system.

IBM Lotus upgrades set for Notes, Domino, other products

IBM/Lotus is rolling out a set of incremental upgrades across its product lines over the coming 12 month, including new capabilities in Notes, Domino, Sametime, Connections and LotusLive.

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Progress to buy BPM vendor Savvion for $49m

Progress Software announced it has purchased business process management (BPM) vendor Savvion for approximately US$49 million.

White House calls for better tech to fight terrorists

The White House report on the failed bombing attempt of a US airliner on Christmas Day highlights the challenges US intelligence agencies face in correlating terrorism-related information gathered from multiple databases and sources.

SAP stepping up fight against Oracle

With an assist from Microsoft, SAP is making a renewed push against Oracle in the EPM (enterprise performance management) space, and has a rip-and-replace success story to show for it.

NAO: Government needs better bank data after £850bn bailout

NAO: Government needs better bank data after £850bn bailout

The government was ‘justified’ in bailing out the banks with £850 billion of public money, Whitehall’s financial auditor said today, but it needs better access to bank liquidity data in order to support its fast decision-making.

Gartner to buy research firm AMR

Gartner announced that it is buying AMR Research for $64 million, in the latest acquisition by the giant IT research firm. The deal is expected to be completed this month.

IBM offers Amazon Web Services cloud monitoring

Companies running applications on Amazon Web Services can now monitor their environments using IBM’s Tivoli Monitoring software.

Informatica launches update of data integration platform

Informatica is launching Version 9 of its data integration platform on Tuesday, a release that emphasizes improved data quality, business-IT collaboration and assembling information from both on- and off-premise sources.

Google Sites wiki builder gets templates

Google Sites, the wiki-based hosted application for building group websites, is gaining its first wave of templates with a set for workplaces and a set for personal use.

US in drive to track swine flu outbreaks in real-time

Dr. Chris Crow, a family physician in Plano, Texas, said that in 10 years of practising medicine, he has never seen flu spread like it has in the past six weeks. Crow said he has been treating at least three new flu patients a day during that time.

SQL Server 2008 R2 preview imminent

Microsoft will release a preview of SQL Server 2008 R2, this one including new business intelligence integration tools and master data management features. In addition, two highly scalable editions will be introduced.

Oracle reveals future of Sun software

Oracle has provided new details about its plans for certain key Sun Microsystems technologies, including the GlassFish application server and the NetBeans application development toolkit.

Europe to get Microsoft Dynamics CRM online

Microsoft plans to expand the number of countries where it offers the hosted version of its Dynamics CRM product, which has proved popular in the US and Canada where it is already offered.

SAS boss not worried by IBM BI challenge

If SAS Institute CEO Jim Goodnight is feeling pressured by IBM's recent purchase of rival predictive analytics vendor SPSS, he's not showing it.

Salesforce banking on Adobe Flash apps

Flash linkage to Force.com helps establish the cloud platform as a separate entity from Salesforce.com's core CRM system

IBM bulks up InfoSphere analytics

IBM will announce a range of additions to its already burgeoning portfolio of BI (business intelligence) tools during its annual Information on Demand (IOD) conference.

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