MWD research update

On the Radar: Host Analytics

2012-05-22T00:01:00Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

Host Analytics provides a multi-tenant, cloud-based Corporate Performance Management (CPM) suite which supports capabilities for budgeting, planning, financial consolidation, reporting, analysis and scorecards. This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple "ten questions" format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and services. We use this format to focus on the capability and suitability of small, specialist vendors – to help you build the best possible vendor shortlists when looking to make new technology investments.

Email strategy profile: VMware Zimbra

2012-05-09T00:01:00Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

Following its market entrance seven years ago, Zimbra quickly gained profile as a significant challenger to the enterprise email market leaders. Today, as part of the VMware end-user applications business, Zimbra continues to differentiate itself through its open source strategy and multi-platform approach to email and collaboration.

PNMsoft

2012-04-30T00:01:00Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

Many BPM technology vendors are locked in a race to deliver the largest set of sophisticated features across the BPM activity cycle and to demonstrate scalability at the highest levels to support the broadest BPM programs with end-to-end infrastructure. However, as the market for BPM technology matures and becomes better understood by broad swathes of industry, a significant mainstream opportunity for BPM technology has developed that delivers a solid set of core capabilities at an attractive price point, packaged to solve particular line-of-business challenges. UK-based PNMSoft is taking this tack for its BPM technology business, combining strong Microsoft platform credentials with a business value-based approach to customer engagement and pricing.

QlikTech: Bringing Business Discovery to the enterprise with QlikView 11

2012-04-30T00:01:01Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

QlikTech's QlikView 11 brings new and enhanced functionality to the company’s flagship BI platform in areas such as collaboration, comparative analysis, mobile BI and platform management. At the same time the release is part of the company's overall plans to firm up its Business Discovery positioning and appeal to a broader base of customers including those in large enterprises, as a way of complementing its significant presence in mid-sized organisations. QlikView 11 represents a solid offering in support of these aims.

On the Radar: bEcosystems

2012-04-30T00:01:02Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

A small start-up vendor with operations in Europe and the US, bEcosystems' bCommunities service supports B2B project-based collaboration using software-as-a-service. This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple "ten questions" format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and services. We use this format to focus on the capability and suitability of small, specialist vendors – to help you build the best possible vendor shortlists when looking to make new technology investments.

A snapshot of cloud-based BPM tools usage

2012-04-26T00:01:00Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

In recent years many BPM technology vendors have introduced cloud-based tools and platforms, eager to ensure that they don't miss out on any opportunities generated by the broader wave of interest in cloud-based computing. This report is an analysis of an online survey conducted during March 2012 to explore organisations' perceptions and experiences of using cloud-based BPM technology, and forms a companion to our December 2011 report The evolving contribution of Cloud Computing to BPM.

Collaboration case study: CGI

2012-04-16T00:01:00Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

This report examines professional services organisation CGI's enterprise-wide collaboration initiative focused on improving knowledge sharing and supporting its growing and increasingly global workforce. The initiative, called CynerGI, employs social collaboration platform TIBCO tibbr.

Virtusa's BPM business

2012-03-29T00:01:00Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

As BPM initiatives have started to become mainstream concerns in industry, the ability of large consultancy and systems integration (CSI) providers to assist clients with new BPM-enabled projects and programmes has become increasingly important. This report is designed to help BPM adopters assess the existing capability and direction of Virtusa's BPM business, highlighting its approach to marketing its capabilities and executing client engagements, as well as exploring its speciality focus areas, track record and partnerships.

Online communities vendor profile: TIBCO

2012-03-28T00:01:00Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

As one of the newest entrants to the enterprise social software market, TIBCO tibbr leverages TIBCO's credentials in enterprise integration and security to deliver an IT-friendly solution which brings together updates and notifications from people, processes and applications into a configurable, Twitter-like activity stream.

On the Radar: GoodData

2012-03-22T00:01:00Z

This report is available to paying advisory service subscribers, or can be purchased separately (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com).

GoodData provides a cloud-based Business Intelligence (BI) offering for both partners and organisations that want to manage the performance of their front office operations. This On the Radar briefing note follows a simple "ten questions" format, which we designed to provide a concise but thorough overview of a company and its products and services. We use this format to focus on the capability and suitability of small, specialist vendors – to help you build the best possible vendor shortlists when looking to make new technology investments.