Tuesday, January 31, 2006

IT-business alignment predictions for 2006 (IT Directors)

At around this time, it seems to be pretty much mandatory for IT analyst firms to offer predictions for the coming year. Although at Macehiter Ward-Dutton we like to try and do things a little differently, we couldn't stop ourselves. What follows is our take on some of the key trends, topics and technologies that we believe will have an important bearing on the challenge of IT-business alignment throughout 2006.

Reuse Microsoft Visio Process Diagrams (Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal)

Fujitsu Software Corporation and Zynium has announced that they have entered into a partnership where Zynium will provide a solution for utilizing existing intellectual capital for business process management. Zynium, the market leader in middleware for workflow, will enable its Microsoft Visio process maps exporter to be compatible with Fujitsu’s Interstage Business Process Manager 7.1, the newest version of Fujitsu’s award-winning business process management software.

Qualitätsstandards, Übersichtlichkeit und Marktransparenz im Business Process Management

Die IQ-work Software AG, eine hundertprozentige Tochtergesellschaft der Drillisch AG, ist eines der sieben Mitglieder der im Dezember 2005 gegründeten BPM-Allianz, die ab sofort aktiv für einheitliche Qualitätsstandards, Übersichtlichkeit und Marktransparenz in Sachen Business Process Management (BPM) steht.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Maximizing BPM Value (Line56)

Capturing the inherent complexities and dynamic nature of business processes is often a tremendous struggle

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Giving a Business Process Management Edge to Enterprise Resource Planning (TEC)

Giving a BPM Edge to Its ERP Product Lines

Once the proof of concept that Exact e-Synergy could be a business process management (BPM) enabler had been made, Exact realized that the technology could also provide an edge to its enterprise resource planning (ERP) product lines. It hopes that Exact Globe 2000 and Macola ES will give user enterprises a greater reach that extends beyond a selected few power users traditionally situated within financial or manufacturing departments. The successful and quick integration of e-Synergy with the Macola back-office solution to create Macola ES was impressive, delivering more information to desktops across the enterprise, and better managing customer service.

For background information on Exact Software see Exact Software Continues with Its Share of Judicious Acquisitions. For a discussion of e-Synergy and BPM see A Single Software Solution That Enables Business Process Management.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

A Single Software Solution That Enables Business Process Management (TEC)

Exact e-Synergy as a BPM Enabler

Exact has focused its development on making sure that any user company can significantly benefit from data stored in different places within the organization. Accordingly, it has developed a platform that keeps all departmental data in one central information store, accessible, in near real-time, over the Web, to make sure everyone within the organization works with the same information.

A Single Software Solution That Enables Business Process Management (TEC)

Exact e-Synergy as a BPM Enabler

Exact has focused its development on making sure that any user company can significantly benefit from data stored in different places within the organization. Accordingly, it has developed a platform that keeps all departmental data in one central information store, accessible, in near real-time, over the Web, to make sure everyone within the organization works with the same information.