IBM acquisition gets thumbs up

Rarely does any acquisition by any vendor garner the rave reviews from analysts covering service-oriented architecture (SOA) that followed IBM's announced acquisition this week of ILOG, the business rule management systems vendor, says Search SOA.

According to analysts, the acquisition will add a business rules engine that IBM needs to fill out its BPM focus for SOA.

"The ILOG acquisition goes a long way in rounding out IBM's 'BPM enabled by SOA' vision," said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst at ZapThink.

Skelta has released the new Service Pack 1 for its BPM product Skelta BPM.NET 2007, reports Free Press Release Centre.

This edition features new enhancements intended to provide additional impetus to the BPM community.

Skelta SP1 features have been designed with an eye towards improved responsiveness to customer requirements and this version includes additions such as the Skelta Engine Auto Recovery Mechanism for FE and EP Workflows, Resuming Finished with Error, Localisation Changes and Queue System Variable.

Carlson Marketing Canada has gone live with Global 360's BPM solution, Process360, to manage the company's corporate meetings and events programmes, states PR Web.

"The Global 360 BPM Suite has enabled us to create better proposals faster, boosting customer satisfaction and loyalty," said Susan Miller, vice-president, Business Process Management, Carlson Marketing Canada.

Prior to deploying Process360, Carlson Marketing Canada relied on paper-based forms, word processing documents and spreadsheets to process proposals and enable collaboration among numerous participants, from sales executives to budget and programme planners to managers, to deliver travel proposals that met their client's need.