Rewind business processes with ActiveVOS

Active Endpoints, a business process management (BPM) and automation software maker, has released an update that enables business users to rewind processes and adjust work when the information in a system does not match what is expected, reports Software Development Times.

ActiveVOS 6.1, which is slated for release on 10 March, will introduce a process rewind feature that is intended to make BPM less rigid.

"People can be afraid of BPM, thinking that it puts shackles on how the business is run; this new system fixes a pain point," said Michael Rowley, director of strategy and technology at Active Endpoints.

DMTI Spatial, a Canadian provider of location intelligence solutions, has introduced the fifth of its six innovative Location Content Cartridges (LCC) designed to address specific vertical industry business needs, states MarketWire.

The Exploration and Mapping LCC is a comprehensive solution providing next-generation content designed to address the unique complexities oil and gas and mining organisations face surrounding optimum site selection, regulatory compliance and risk management.

This new content, including detailed geospatial culture data, will enable clients to drive workflow efficiencies, optimise survey costs and improve ROI.

With two years down and one to go in his quest to create a service-enabled culture, Unitus Community Credit Union CIO Brian Irvine has turned the company's IT business processes into a commodity coveted by other business units, writes SearchCIO-Midmarket.com.

How? By shaking things up in the IT department and proving the return on investment of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) service desk application, after another SaaS project stalled due to too much customisation.

The heart of Irvine's strategy was to turn the service desk and IT into a business unit akin to sales or human resources, where technology services could be delivered as easily as payroll direct-depositing a cheque in an employee's bank account.