2010/02/02

I'm glad to see that IBM Cognos is making the most of good assets. Rather than introducing a light version of Cognos enterprise technologies to meet the needs of midsize companies, IBM yesterday bowed an IBM Cognos Express offering that is really one part Cognos and two parts Applix TM1....

2009/12/16

Lombardi CTO Phil Gilbert's blog post on the acquisition of Lombardi Software by IBM.

2009/12/16

IBM bought Lombardi this morning for an "undisclosed sum". Having been through an acquisition by a larger company myself, I can only imagine what the Lombardi folks in Austin Texas (and elsewhere) may be thinking.

2009/12/16

This has been quite a busy day, having seen IBM's announcement come over the wire barely after the alarm went off. Lombardi has always been the little BPM company that could. In contrast to rivals like Pegasystems, which has a very complex, rule-driven approach, Lombardi’s approach has always been characterized by simplicity. In that sense, its approach mimicked that of Fuego before it was acquired by BEA, which of course was eventually swallowed up by Oracle....

2009/12/16

I was on the analyst call this morning to hear about IBM's acquisition of Lombardi - a pretty significant acquisition in the BPM space. Lombardi is the best known of the mid-range BPMS vendors, and if the economic climate weren't quite so dreary, I imagine that they'd be doing an IPO rather than being acquired, or at least staying as an independent rather than become part of an organization that offers what Phil Gilbert (president of Lombardi) recently described as not BPM, but "Orwellian marketing rhetoric". Given that Phil has done everything except call IBM the "evil empire", it's hard to imagine the drivers behind this acquisition....

2009/12/16

Just a few minutes ago I saw a tweet from Lombardi's Phil Gilbert announcing that IBM is buying Lombardi - one of the most high-profile and successful of specialist BPM technology vendors. There's going to be a briefing from IBM a little later today so I'm not yet in full possession of the detail - but with that caveat, here's my off-the-cuff reaction for anyone who wants it....

2009/12/16

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi, a privately held software company based in Austin, Texas. Financial terms were not disclosed. Lombardi, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software and services, helps organizations automate and integrate business processes to increase efficiencies and reduce costs....

2009/07/28

ARMONK, N.Y. and CHICAGO, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and SPSS Inc. (Nasdaq: SPSS) today announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement for IBM to acquire SPSS, a publicly-held company headquartered in Chicago, in an all cash transaction at a price of $50/share, resulting in a total cash consideration in the merger of approximately $1.2 billion. The acquisition is subject to SPSS shareholder approval, applicable regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions. It is expected to close later in the second half of 2009....

2009/07/22

Get a short introduction to the Master Data Management Reference Architecture for the enterprise which supports implementing multiform Master Data Management (MDM). Learn about the key concepts that drive the design of the MDM Reference Architecture and Logical System Architecture and see how to map the relevant IBM Information Management software products to the core components of the Master Data Management Reference Architecture. Each product is briefly introduced, and in the Resources section of this paper you will find a wealth of additional information for reference. Finally, you will also learn about an upcoming book, Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach Managing Core Information, that describes the MDM Reference Architecture in full detail as well as other topics related to MDM....

2009/07/18

Application -- Business Intelligence: customer information warehouse. Business Benefits -- $22.8 million saved during pilot; estimated $268 million savings over next four years in retail banking; better targeted marketing; estimated 100 percent ROI in six months...

2009/07/18

The purpose of this paper is to outline the components of the Banking Data Warehouse (BDW) and how they assist financial institutions to address the data modeling and data consolidation issues relating to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

2009/07/17

InfoSphere MDM Server helps companies gain control over business information by enabling them to manage and maintain a complete and accurate view of their master data. InfoSphere MDM Server enables companies to extract maximum value from master data by centralizing multiple data domains and providing a comprehensive set of prebuilt business services that support a full range of master data management (MDM) functionality. This information center contains conceptual information to help you understand InfoSphere MDM Server and the ways that you can use it to solve your business problems, and provides valuable reference information that you may need to consult when you perform the tasks described....

2009/07/14

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a no-charge enterprise search software solution that enables rapid deployment of intranet and file system search for both employees and customers.

2009/06/22

As President Obama and Congress take on what the president in his American Medical Association speech called the "ticking time bomb" of health care costs, they need to know that they can't succeed without harnessing the massive data generated by modern medicine. Getting the best information into the hands of doctors and patients, while protecting patient privacy, is not just a desire but an overriding need if we are to get a handle on spiraling costs and also improve care....

2009/06/17

From The Rational Edge: The author presents a software testing technique that helps users of automated testing tools in the decision-making process, without requiring the often-used hard coding.

2009/03/25

BI Implications of proposed SUN/IBM merger

2008/09/03

Vantage Deluxe World Travel has deployed a business-savvy SOA project that makes it easier and less expensive for customers to book vacations. The SOA solution from IBM also cuts costs and saves many man-hours for Vantage IT.

2008/08/25

IBM said it has created developer tools to support a new set of software and services for mobile devices. This will put business process management and business event processing in the palm of business executives hands, says Sandy Carter, vice president for SOA and WebSphere strategy....

2008/07/14

The release of Gartner statistics during the week of June 9 that show that IBM still rules the middleware market reminded me to ask the question: Who rules the BPM software market? It’s a trick question: IBM rules the BPM software market too.

2008/06/11

What happens to products if a company is taken over.

2008/03/25

EnterpriseDB Corp. on Tuesday announced that it had raised $10 million from funders, including IBM, which took a small but symbolically laden stake in the 4-year-old open-source database maker.

2008/03/06

While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it’s certainly true it’s early days yet for mashups, the tools that...

2008/03/06

2008/02/12

First step: Offer integrations and bundles for data warehousing, information integration and BPM. Second step: Deliver IBM analytics through Cognos software.

2010/03/10

Collection of QlikView tips and tricks

2010/03/04

Todd Hoff put up a provocative post on High Scalability called MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era?In addition, he provides a lot of useful links, that DBMS-oriented folks such as myself might have previously overlooked.

2010/03/03

While office theft by employees has been a problem since the invention of the office, it seems during times of economic uncertainty office theft rises substantially. Just how bad is it? How about 994 billion dollars being attributed to employees stealing? The infographic below clearly shows that employee theft is on the rise; and more startling is the fact that no one is immune to the lure of free pencils or getting a five-finger-discount when it come to electronics and other office equipment. All levels of education are guilty and those with bachelor's degrees are the biggest offenders when it comes office theft....