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The GridEcon Platform: A Business Scenario Testbed for Commercial Cloud Services

This paper presents the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is difficult to predict in the context of a market and, therefore, an environment for evaluating...

Tags: Workflow Engine, Economics, Platform, Marketplace

White papers 2009-06-28

What is the difference between Workflow Engines and BPM Suites?

In the 1990s, workflow vendors created quite a bit of confusion in the market when trying to define workflow and how it could best be utilized. Today, that situation is being replicated in the Business Process Management BPM industry. Ask 10 different vendors to define BPM or BPM suites, and...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, Workflow Engine, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2009-01-28

Returnable Forms Reader 2.5 (Windows)

The Returnable Forms Reader is the main application in the Returnable Forms system. With it, you can open a Returnable Form, complete it, and save the data. A Returnable Form combines features from word processing documents, presentation documents, and online database forms. As such, Returnable Forms can (1) display and...

Tags: Word-processing, Microsoft Windows, Workflow Engine, Returnable Forms Reader, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2006-11-06

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6 - Extending Workflows With Java

IBM Tivoli Identity Manager has a very flexible workflow engine. It can request additional information, send e-mail messages, provision additional accounts, and so on. When the default functionality is insufficient, the workflow engine can be extended using Java. This allows workflows to store additional fields for accounts, interface with third-party...

Tags: Java, Workflow, Workflow Engine, IBM Corp., IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

White papers 2006-03-01

Additional Resources

UCCXD - Contact Center Express/Unified IP IVR Deployment v3.0

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will gain hands-on experience and knowledge of tasks typically performed to deploy Contact Center Unified Contact Center Express v7.0 and Unified IP IVR v7.0, two products that run on the Unified Contact Center Express Engine. Tasks include planning, installation, configuration tasks, troubleshooting,...

Tags: Contact Center, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Training 2009-11-01

The Adobe-Omniture deal: Does it make sense?

Adobe & Omniture makes senseOmniture currently have components for Adobe's Dreamweaver and Flash, to integrate analytics into web content and last time I used them, they really weren't that great. I imagine in Adobe's CS5 this integration will be very seamless, which will encourage Adobe's users to use Omniture over...

Tags: Financial Planning, Adobe Systems Inc., Omniture Inc., analytics

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Sound Grinder 3.3.8 (Mac)

Sound Grinder is an audio conversion utility providing comprehensive features and built to process files in a fast, efficient and rock solid manner. In addition to Universal Binary support, running 100% native on both PPC and Intel microprocessors, version 3.0 includes several new features including: "Droplets" for simple drag and...

Tags: Metadata, Apple Macintosh, Apple QuickTime, Monkey Tools, Digital Music, Apple Mac OS X, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-09-02

ZapBill 3.6 (Mobile)

ZapBill makes it easy for physicians to capture essential billing information at the point of care.ZapBill creates a billing record consisting of procedure and diagnosis codes suitable for creating a HCFA-1500 billing form. If you have ZapCode, it automatically picks up the primary billing code. Using ZapBill, you can then...

Tags: Patient, Billing, Mobile, Palm Inc., ZapBill 3.6, Procedure Code, ICD

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Enterprise 2.0 conference impressions

I'm in seat 14c on a Virgin America flight back from Boston to San Francisco after an exhilarating Enterprise 2.0 Conference. There's a lot of similarities between this airline and the Enterprise 2.0 movement. The plane has wifi and a good modern user experience but essentially...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Collaboration Environment, Sharepoint Plan, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Project Engine Personal 2009:4 (Windows)

Project Engine is a combined project planning and task tracking system. Its unique task tree visualizes the status of the project and makes it possible to plan and track tasks in one integrated solution. The built-in workflow engine drives the project forward while users can focus on completing tasks in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Innovative Tool Solutions, Built-in Workflow Engine

Software downloads 2009-06-03

Team@Work 3.1.2 (Windows)

Team@Work is a workflow management system specially designed to serve small and medium-sized companies. It is built on principles of simplicity, efficiency, zero-administration and low cost. Besides its simplicity Team@Work allows to define and manage complex workflows that include parallel branches, variants, alternatives and time-based activities. Workflow schemes are...

Tags: built-In, Microsoft Windows, Messaging, Workflow, Workflow Management, Efficient Software Systems, Team@Work, Workflow Scheme, Runtime Engine, CAD, Instant Messaging, Process Improvement, Groupware, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-05-30

Sharepoint's DisneyWorld Style Strategy

Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe's ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we're at a point where many of the...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Anystream Agility Media Plug-In

Making content available for on-air broadcast, mobile, web, VOD and a variety of other outlets is becoming increasingly important to Signiant customers. The ability to transcode content into multiple formats has been available for a number of years but as timelines get shorter and B2B relationships span the globe, content...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Media, Plug-in, Video On Demand (VoD), Digital Media, B2B, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

White papers 2009-02-06

Aspose.Workflow for .NET 1.7.0 (Windows)

Aspose.Workflow is of the .NET components offered by Aspose that provides a powerful workflow engine along with a full set of industry standard workflow objects. It supports; WFMC XPDL 1.0, Export/Import of XML file in XPDL format, Join/Split activity, Calling external application/ToolAgent, User/Group Management and participant mapping, User based worklist...

Tags: .Net, Application Servers, Aspose, Aspose.Workflow, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Industry Standard, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-12-31

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three

To Recap We're heading into the homestretch.  Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night.  Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold.  For those of you who missed the previous...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, CRM, Greenberg, Connectbeam Management, Zuora, LucidEra, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Workday - Where HR and Finance Do More than Interface

Workday update Workday hosted a conference call for the Enterprise Irregulars bloggers recently. The firm was announcing a number of functional enhancements to their integrated Finance and HR product line. What did we learn? The company now has...

Tags: Human Resources, Workday, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-12-16

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Live and Let Die - Part 1

We're heading into the forecasting homestretch now. You've seen what I'm thinking 'sup for 2009 with this post, this post, and this post.  Now we move onto the final one or two or three (we'll see how long I can go writing each one before I get tired or sick...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp., Vision, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sales, CRM, SDN, BPX, Marketing Functionality, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Central Desktop launches Enterprise SaaS suite

When it comes to online collaboration, Central Desktop has been serving small and medium-sized businesses for some time with the tools they need to manage versions of files, emails related to a project and calendaring tools designed to keep team members in sync. Now, as rocky economic...

Tags: Desktop, Software-as-a-service, Client-server, Tool, Productivity, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-18

Workflow Management: iMarkup Server v6

Workflow has been defined as the automation of a business process in which documents, information or tasks are passed from one participants to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules. A workflow is made up of many functions and activities such as a review process, task lists,...

Tags: BP Plc, Workflow, Workflow Management, iMarkup Server, Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Process Improvement, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2008-11-01