Mike Vizard

Red Hat this week extended its business process management (BPM) suite to run natively on a Red Hat OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. Phil Simpson, product marketing manager for JBoss at Red Hat, says Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7 will make it simpler for members of a line of business (LOB) organization to collaboratively build […]

Building so-called Smarter Cities has long been touted as a major goal for municipalities around the globe. But building systems capable of responding to events in real time is a major challenge for any government operating on a limited IT budget. The hope is that processes will become integrated enough to create a massive pool […]

Adobe today announced it has extended the range of workflow management capabilities it provides in collaboration with Microsoft into more advanced business processes, including the ability to now integrate Adobe Sign electronic signature software within Microsoft Dynamics 365 workflows in addition to being able to access customer information stored in the LinkedIn Sales Navigator cloud […]

The opportunity to transform banking by relying more on digital processes is starting to attract some new players. Kony, Inc., a provider of web and mobile application development tools, has launched Kony DBX, a platform for both building applications and deploying a suite of retail banking applications. Jeffery Kendall, senior vice president for banking at […]

Much of the investment being made in Internet of Things (IoT) applications is predicated on the notion that there will be sensors in place capable of capturing data. But the cost and complexity associated with distributing sensors everywhere is a logistical and economic challenge. Altia Systems is working with Intel to develop an alternative approach […]

SAP today at a 2018 Sapphire Now + ASUG Annual Conference announced a C/4HANA customer experience suite that it contends will make earlier generations of customer relationship management (CRM) software appear antiquated. SAP CEO Bill McDermott says C/4HANA differs from existing CRM applications in that it provides a holistic view of the customer, spanning everything […]

The financial services industry has always been among the first sectors to embrace leading-edge information technology, so it should not come as a surprise that artificial intelligence (AI) is no exception. After all, trading firms have been taking advantage of various algorithms to programmatically trade stocks in matter of microseconds for years now. But the […]

The effect that artificial intelligence (AI) will have on manufacturing will be immediate on two levels. The first is that events such as equipment going offline because of a part failure will be increasingly rare. The second is that the days when manufacturers ran short of a critical raw material, or conversely, had too much […]

Epicor Software Corp. at an Epicor Insights 2018 conference this week announced that Microsoft Azure will become the primary platform on which it will deliver cloud applications on going forward. Thierry Bonfante, vice president of global product management for cloud at Epicor, says Epicor will continue to support a variety of instances of its software […]

Sage has announced it is adding support for PayPal as a payment option within Sage50Cloud accounting software. Seamus Smith, executive vice president of global payments and banking for Sage, says organizations are increasingly being required to support a much wider variety of payment options within their accounting applications. Integrating those payment systems within an accounting […]

A global survey of 452 procurement officers and operational leaders conducted by SAP Ariba and the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt finds there’s a major gap between where most organizations are today when it comes to digital transformation and where they hope to be. The survey finds that while 83 percent of respondents say they […]

Oracle this week announced it will extend the reach of machine learning algorithms and related artificial intelligence (AI) applications into the realm of manufacturing. Ramchand Raman, vice president of product development for Oracle, says Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Applications for Manufacturing will employ machine learning and AI to process vast amounts of data to identify issues […]