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 | May 10, 2010 | 2 Comments
I don’t want anyone to take this seriously, but following a recent corporate PC software upgrade which included Microsoft Outlook 2007 and IBM Lotus Notes 8, I was browsing through the new menus and observed that the “Save As” menu button (for Outlook) and the “Save” menu button (for Lotus) both use obsolete floppy diskette Icons: [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | May 3, 2010 | Comments Off
Today IBM announced its acquiring Cast Iron Systems. My colleagues and I have followed Cast Iron for nearly a decade and have watched it evolve in the last few years from its roots (and enduring legacy) in appliance-based integration appliances into a prominent provider of Cloud services integration. For several years now it has delivered [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | April 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Last night I attend the MIT Enterprise Forum of Phoenix event on Cloud Computing. These events target entrepreneurs and this one featured speakers from IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce.com with a panel that followed moderated by David Bennett of Axway. It was a very interesting event, well attended and with compelling presentations — and it was [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | April 19, 2010 | 3 Comments
My colleagues and I recently published more analysis on various providers of solutions for Cloud Services Integration / SaaS Integration. Research (license required) includes: Who’s Who in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 2 (just released!) Cool Vendors in Multienterprise B2B, 2010 (just released — and this includes other cool B2B vendors too) Who’s Who in Cloud-Computing/SaaS Integration, Volume 1 [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | February 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Here’s a foll0w-up on my recent post Update on The B2B Frenzy with the latest list of related published research (login required): Tibco’s acquisition of Foresight on Friday Jess Thompson and I will have that out soon SPS Commerce’ recent IPO filing with the SEC SPS Commerce Will Wield Its IPO Like a Sword, But [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
In my recent post, Liaison and ADX Fuel The B2B Frenzy, I addressed a wide range of vendor landscape changes in B2B integration market segment. Here’s an update on related research: Tibco’s acquisition of Foresight on Friday — my colleagues and I are still working on that The GXS acquisition of Inovis — we just published [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | December 22, 2009 | Comments Off
There’s an App for that — your iPhone is your Hotel Room Key. I’m sure to be of the minority opinion not overwhelmingly impressed with the “convenience” aspect of using my iPhone as a hotel room key [and boarding pass, et al]. I mean, after all, it really *is* such a bother to keep track [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | December 11, 2009 | 6 Comments
This week in Las Vegas at Gartner’s SOA / ADI Event I hosted a Analyst / User Roundtable on the topic of Cloud computing / SaaS integration. One attendee which has already (impressively) leveraged the services of a dozen SaaS vendors claims that four of the twelve providers have changed API’s without notifcation, impacting production operations. A few other members [...]
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by Benoit Lheureux | December 8, 2009 | 6 Comments
This morning GXS and Inovis announced that they will merge. My colleagues and I will respond to our clients with our detailed analysis of this event soon (and in 5 minutes I’m rushing off to breakfast with some of the GXS and Inovis folks to learn more), but after covering the B2B integration market segment [...]
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