This week Software AG announced its cloud-based platform-as-a-service suite Software AG Live. The suite consists of AgileApps Live, Process Live and Integration Live. Stefan Ried, Principal Analyst at Forrester wrote a great summary about Software AG Live in his blog. I am especially excited about Process Live because as some of you might already know, I have been around in [...]

Many of you have been waiting for this: ARIS 9 is available as of today. The newest ARIS release combines 20 years of process improvement experience with the latest technology trends of cloud, mobile, social collaboration and big data/information. ARIS 9 takes a quantum leap forward in process design, publishing, analysis and collaborative improvement. Here’s a summary of the highlights: [...]

Note – This is a post authored by Rob Rowe, Sr. Manager, MDM Product Marketing, Software AG. I just helped in co-authoring the part about taming big data since I have already written on the topic before. We’ve all heard about big data and there are numerous definitions of it. Suffice to say, it’s a lot of data from both [...]

Fraud impacts all organizations. Most organizations are unable to fully eliminate fraud and hence have to live with it as the cost of doing business.  A recent survey estimates global telecom fraud losses at $40.1 Billion USD or approximately 1.88% of revenue. This number is based on only the known fraud transactions, adding the unknown fraud i.e. the fraud that [...]

Every organization values their top innovators and problem solvers. Join us for 3 days of vision, inspiration and insight at Innovation World 2013 (formerly known as ProcessWorld) on Oct. 8-10 in San Francisco. Whether you’re focused on improving business processes and integration, or looking for new strategies around Big Data or transactions, this one global event will inspire you with [...]

As I mentioned in my post last week, I was inspired to write about the Electrolux presentation given by Jean Lastowka at the recent Gartner BPM Summit. The presentation was about how process improvement and real-time supply chain visibility are game changers for Electrolux. But what makes this story unique is Jean attended the BPM summit last year where she [...]

We all deal with data on a day-to-day basis. We handle data as knowledge workers, data crunchers, data creators or consumers in our daily routines. And, I am not even talking about your work yet. You pick up your newspaper in the morning (yes, some of us still do!) and scan through the stocks. You are the consumer of the [...]

As we have been preparing our webinar series on Innovation through Integration, I keep coming to the same conclusion that integration isn’t just a nice to have, or a piece of infrastructure to consider. Rather, integration is the name of the game. In fact, integration has become the application. I am sure there are exceptions to the rule, and the [...]