Putting a Social Spin on HCM
Human capital management (HCM) is a complicated enough subject in itself. But add social recruiting into the mix,…
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Product Portfolio Management: Getting Products to Market Faster
By Jim Brown, president of Tech-Clarity Product executives face increasing pressure to launch fresh, innovative products within shrinking…
Mobile BPM: 10 Vendors to Watch
Business process management (BPM) is fairly well-established in many enterprises. However, leveraging the explosion in mobile devices, platforms…
Early on the Mobile BPM Curve
Given that an increasingly large portion of work activity – and not just personal email correspondence, but activities…
IBM Completes Kenexa Buy, Preps Analytics-Driven HCM
IBM’s bid for Kenexa is officially a done deal. Big Blue today announced that it had closed on its…
Drupal Sponsor Acquia Brings in $68.5 Million of Funding
There is a lot of money backing the open source Drupal content management system (CMS). Acquia, the lead…
SAP Unveils Windows 8 Mobile Apps
Betting that Windows 8 will make a splash in the enterprise mobility market, SAP today announced six new…
Human Capital Management Buying Guide: Kenexa, Workday and More
In part one of this buying guide for human capital management (HCM) software, we covered the cloud-based offerings…
Human Capital Management Buying Guide: Oracle, SAP, Salesforce
Human capital management (HCM) is front and center among enterprise applications following a series of acquisitions by software…
Oracle Buys SelectMinds, Another Cloud HCM Company
Oracle is once again stirring things up in the heated human capital management (HCM) space. The company is…
SAP Adds More HANA Cloud Apps
HANA, SAP’s in-memory database platform, continues to play an increasingly big role in the German software giant’s strategy…
BP Logix Delivers New Version of Process Director BPM Software
BP Logix, a provider of business process management (BPM) software, has introduced Process Director Version 2.5, the latest…
HCM Specialist Workday Files for $400M IPO
Pleasanton, Calif.-based Workday filed for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), it was revealed late Thursday. Founded…
Enterprise Mobile App Momentum Continues, Thanks to Business Users
As far back as early 2008, industry analysts were talking about autonomous enterprise IT users, suggesting employees of…
IBM Buys Social HCM Specialist Kenexa for $1.3B
Big Blue today announced it is acquiring Kenexa, a social-enabled, cloud-based human capital management (HCM) specialist, for approximately $1.3…
Meeting the Mobile App Management Challenge
A recent Enterprise Apps Today article offers some great advice on Taking Enterprise Apps Mobile, from assessing mobile…
Ubuntu Linux Brings Web Apps to the Desktop
In a world where applications are increasingly delivered in cloud-based models, the line between native desktop and Web-based…
Oracle Hyperion 11.1.2.2: Determining When to Upgrade
By Juan Porter, president of TopDown Consulting Oracle earlier this year released Hyperion 11.1.2.2. While a multiple dot…
Company Size Matters in Mobile App Strategies
As Enterprise Apps Today reported in April, while enterprises are keen to bring more mobile apps to their…
Losing Applications in the Cloud: The Growing Necessity for Capacity Management
In the good old days an enterprise application was given its own server – the more mission critical…
BPM Booms in Bad Economy
Business process management (BPM) is the rare enterprise application that may attract more investment during challenging economic times…
SunView Unveils ITIL-as-a-Service Software
Bigger isn’t better when it comes to implementing the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), a framework of IT service…
Oracle Puts Cloud to Work for New Services Offering
While Oracle has been talking up its cloud plans, most of the discussion has centered around how it…
Huddle Snags $24M, Aims at SharePoint
Alastair Mitchell, co-founder and CEO of Huddle, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, pegs his company…
Partnerpedia Intros New App Management Options for BYOD Workplaces
As Enterprise Apps Today recently reported, enterprise application stores are grabbing the attention of companies trying to address…
Six Tips for Getting the Best SaaS Deal
Software-as-a-service is growing at a healthy clip, from global revenue of $12.3 billion in 2011 to projected revenue…
Cloud Plans Getting More Cohesive
In the early years of this decade, it seemed like most companies needed cloud computing like a fish…
IBM Raises 2012 Expectations as Software Biz Booms
IBM reported first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday, stating revenue of $24.7 billion, a 1 percent year-over-year…
Retooling App Stores for the Enterprise
Consumer-oriented application storefronts like The Google Play Store (the new name of the Android Market) and Apple’s App…
Dell to Make Old Apps New Again, and Cloudier Too, with Make Technologies Buy
The ink was hardly dry on the Clerity deal before Dell whipped out its checkbook again, this time to acquire…
Dell Buys Clerity in Cloud Applications Push
Today, Dell made a second acquisition in as many days — see the Dell-Wyse deal — by taking Chicago-based Clerity Solutions off…
Host Analytics Intros Business Intelligence Tool for Finance Pros
Host Analytics, a provider of cloud-based corporate performance management (CPM) software, has introduced Host Analytics Business Analytics, a…
BPM + CRM Yields Great Results for Insurer
Gary Kirkham doesn’t need to wait for a question to start talking about Pegasystems’ work with Farmers Insurance…
Axeda Integrates M2M Data with SAP CRM, ERP
Axeda Corporation, a provider of a cloud platform for running and managing machine-to-machine (M2M) transactions, through a partnership…
Salesforce.com Sends Rypple Across Social Enterprise
Salesforce.com hopes the social hooks it gained by acquiring Rypple late last year will do for its business…
Six Ways BPM Can Improve Supply Chain Management
As supply chains continue to expand and become more complex, organizations need better ways to manage their network…
SAP Performance Management, Meet HANA
SAP today announced support for its HANA platform from the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) application, version…
Five Mistakes That Can Wreck Your BPM Project
Enterprise Apps Today recently published an article discussing why it makes sense to take a process-centric approach to…
OnLive Brings Cloud-based Office, Flash Browsing to iPad
While the industry waits for iPad Office apps, one company is taking a different route to getting Microsoft’s…
SAP, Oracle Face Off in Human Capital Management Showdown
One way to gauge the interest level in enterprise applications is to look at recent acquisitions. By that…
Oracle Acquires Taleo for $1.9 Billion
Oracle announced today that it plans to acquire Dublin, Calif.-based Taleo for $1.9 billion, or $46 a share.…
SOS Unwraps Cloud-Based Document Sharing Geared to Enterprise
SOS Online Backup on Monday took the wraps off SOS Collaborate Private Cloud, a cloud-based document syncing and…
Canonical Brings Apps to Life on Ubuntu Linux Desktop
At one point or another, every user has struggled with a help button to try and figure out…
BPM Gets Out of the Back Office
EnterpriseAppsToday’s Ann All spoke with Stuart Chandler, vice president of the BPM Practice for Virtusa Corporation, an IT…
Salesforce.com Enters HCM Space with Rypple Acquisition
Seeking to get its foot in the door of the human capital management (HCM) space, Salesforce.com Friday signed…
SAP to Acquire SuccessFactors in $3.4 Billion Deal
ERP market leader SAP AG on Saturday announced that its SAP America subsidiary would acquire cloud-based human capital…
Ten Reasons to Combine CRM and BPM
Most, if not all, mid-to-large organizations have some form of customer relationship management (CRM) system. Many of these…
SAP Unveils In-Memory Data Warehouse, Mobile Apps
SAP (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled a range of new solutions spanning business intelligence, in-memory analytics, data warehousing and…
Salesforce Launches Do.com Project Management Service
Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) has unveiled a new task and project management service based on the company’s acquisition of…
IBM Adds Analytics to Business Processes
Data is at the root of good decision making, but how do you get the right data in…