by Benoit Lheureux | August 23, 2012 | 2 Comments
In recent years the B2B market segment has been fairly active — see Update on The B2B Frenzy and IBM Acquires Sterling Commerce — And Ups the Ante on B2B. Activity tends to occur in waves, and the last few months have been very active: Liaison Acquired Hubspan — this week. Anyone following this provider [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | June 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
This morning I depart for London to present at our Gartner SOA & Application Development and Integration Summit next week. Its the first time I’m leaving my wife and our now 10-week old Tiger Twins, Oliver and Charlotte, behind … … for a business trip. I’ve just come out of extended paternity leave and its [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | May 24, 2010 | 7 Comments
Just on the heals of IBM acquiring Cast Iron Systems a few weeks ago, today IBM announced that it is acquiring Sterling Commerce for $1.4b in cash. Adding to other recent events such as GXS acquiring Inovis this once again ups the ante on B2B. Gartner’s formal consolidated response to the Cast Iron acquisition will [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | January 13, 2010 | 4 Comments
Yesterday Liaison — a vendor I recently evaluated for our recent update to the Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers (login required) announced that it is acquiring ADX — another B2B vendor I’ve followed for years. While this particular commercial transaction was not by itself a huge deal (it does incrementally strengthen and grows Liaison’s [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
I am a stickler for doing things *in context*. Ask my wife – she’ll be cooking and ask me to fetch the cooking wine and I’ll ask her “why?”. That’s right – asking for context when her stir-fried shrimp are already turning color is simply unnecessary – and annoying. But when you’re doing business activities [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Networks Cloud Cloud Computing EDI Integration Tags: B2B, BPMS, BPN, Cloud, Ecommerce, EDI, Process
