BPMS, the new buzzword

Move over ERP, CRM and virtualisation. BPMS is the new buzzword to hit the IT circles. As Internet continues to change the dynamics of business, enterprises' interest in the management of business process is renewing, reports The Financial Express.

BPMS, or business process management suite, seems to be a hot software category in 2007 in terms of vendor hype, analyst attention and adoption.

It is also predicted to be among the fastest growing software markets, exceeding $1 billion in 2007 in software revenues, and will reach $2.6 billion by 2011.

IT and security executives in the US have the jitters, according to DigitalPersona and Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum's 'Secure Your Network Assets' study, reports eMarketer.

About 75% of the study's respondents said password security has become a bigger issue within the last year, and 77% said a network data breach could be critical or disastrous to their company.

More than 25% of respondents have fingerprint readers in notebooks or desktops, and 80% expect to spend the same or more than last year on biometrics solutions. Yet fewer than half of firms that have fingerprint biometrics security systems (often embedded in laptops) are using the technology.

HiT Software is shipping a new version of Allora, its XML-based data integration and synchronisation software for DB2/400 and other major databases, reports ITJungle.

With Allora version 5, HiT has introduced a new graphical module, called Workflow Manager, that is designed for creating, scheduling, and executing a group of database-to-XML transformation and related XML file management tasks.

Workflow Manager includes a design component for adding tasks, setting parameters, and organising tasks in the execution order.