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IBM Software: Truth, Beauty and BPM
By James Governor on May 30, 2012
“This is some of the most beautiful enterprise software that’s ever been released. When you talk about information management at scale, then beauty matters. Consistency matters.” Phil Gilbert, IBM senior vice president, describing Business Process Manager 7.5 at Impact 2012. When I wrote up IBM’s Impact business and technology conference last year I noted that […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged activity streams, BPM, Business process, ibm, Lombardi, sap, ux

IBM Shows Broad Mobile Portfolio at Largest Lab
By Merv Adrian on July 12, 2010
IBM employs 45,000 software engineers worldwide, and like all large firms, has been greatly expanding its overseas contingent, leading some in the US to complain that not enough is being done “back home.” In mid-June, IBM provided an answer with the opening of a new lab facility in the Boston suburb of Littleton, Massachusetts, one […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged analytics, application development, BAO, cognos, CoreMetrics, Eclipse, ibm, Industry Trends, lab, Lombardi, Lotus, Rational, sterling commerce, tivoli, Websphere

News Analysis: IBM Acquires MDM Leader Initiate Systems For Public Sector and Healthcare Prowess
By R "Ray" Wang on February 3, 2010
IBM Adds A Leading Customer Data Integration/MDM Pioneer To Its Master Information Management Arsenal With arguably 10 master information management acquisitions since 2003, IBM continues to push towards its goal of adaptive master data management (MDM) (see Figure 1). The recent acquisition of Initiate Systems comes after the heals of Oracle’s purchase of SilverCreek Systems […]
Posted in Business | Tagged acquisitions, Ascential Systems, Bill Conroy, cdi, CrossAccess, customer data integration, data integration, data quality, Datactics, dbMotion, DI, DQ, DWL, EII, EMC, Enterprise apps strategy, Healthvision, hp, ibm, ibm software group, information management, initiate systems, Kalido, LAS, Lombardi, master data management, mdm, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, microsoft, News Analysis, oracle, PIM, product information management, Raytheon, sap, SRD, Talend, Trigo, Unicorn, Venetica, Visionware

IBM-Lombardi Deal Closes
By Sandy Kemsley on January 26, 2010
That was fast! Proving my predictions to be ever so inaccurate when I said that it could be months before this closed, the IBM acquisition of Lombardi has closed less than six weeks after it was announced. Good news for IBM, Lombardi, and Lombardi customers.
Not surprisingly, IBM has toned down the “departmental” rhetoric that they […]
Posted in Business | Tagged BPM, Business process, ibm, Lombardi, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions