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MDM and the Cloud

There has been a lot of discussion around master data management (MDM) in the cloud. Some analysts insist that the demand for placing MDM platforms in the cloud isn’t yet there. Nevertheless, there are business reasons to do so, and these are the same reasons for placing any other platform in the cloud. These include benefits such as: No in-house [...]

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4 Reasons to Consolidate B2B Integration and Application Integration onto a Single Platform

In the technology world, convergence is happening faster than ever. In consumer electronics, handhelds, PDAs, pagers, cameras, video-recorders and to a large degree computers have converged into Smartphones bringing simplicity and ease of use. Similarly, convergence has been happening in enterprise software products as well. Technologies which were considered niche only a decade ago are part of larger suites now. [...]

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This September ARIS Will Run in the Cloud as Process Live

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 [...]

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Introducing Software AG Live! A Different Approach to Cloud Computing That Will Stir Up the PaaS Market

Today at Gartner’s AADI conference in London, Software AG articulates its long awaited approach to the cloud paradigm. Under the wrapper Software AG Live, we will mix up the PaaS space with an array of services launched throughout 2013. Here are the key aspects of the announcement and factors of differentiation in the market place. Industry Context CIOs of [...]

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ARIS 9 – The Future of Process is Out Now

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: [...]

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Does it Scale?

One of the fundamental problems with mainframe computing was that it didn’t scale. That’s right. IT didn’t scale. See that? That’s capital “IT”? Oh, the mainframe scaled well enough. But the people that ran it? Not so much. Fast forward a bit, and here we are at the golden age of distributed computing. And guess what. IT still doesn’t scale. [...]

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Taming Big Data and MDM with Integration

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 [...]

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Subject Matter Experts Unite

We have been really busy lately with our latest acquisition of LongJump and there is great lot of fantastic news about the acquisition and our cloud strategy, but I think the one area the excites me the most is expanding the product usage to a whole new class of users – subject matter experts. Sometimes it is better to illustrate [...]

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Software AG Announces Launch of Integration Live (iPaaS) Solution

With SaaS applications being adopted by the dozens by all sizes of enterprises, it comes as no surprise that their IT departments are grappling to figure out the right approach to cloud integration. As easy as it should be, there is, however, no unwrap-and-use solution when it comes to integrating your applications spread across the cloud and on-premise. Today, there [...]

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Eliminate Telecom Fraud using In-Memory Data Management

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 [...]

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