BPM and SOA insight from Mathias Kirchmer

On the heels of the ARIS ProcessWorld conference in Amelia Island, Fla., SearchSAP.com sat down with Mathias Kirchmer, chief innovation and marketing officer for Saarbrücken, Germany-based IDS Scheer to discuss the business process management (BPM) topics that came out of the conference. Kirchmer dissects some trends he’s seeing in the BPM market, gives an update on the company’s partnerships with SAP and Oracle and offers some advice for BPM projects.

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SAP Reports Significant Market Share Gain in Business Intelligence

In a series of news releases underscoring the business value it is delivering with the SAP NetWeaver® platform, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has significantly increased its business intelligence (BI) market share lead over suite vendors and is well-positioned to surpass even pure-play BI vendors.

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SAP Slumps despite Strong Q3

Walravens also says he is concerned about SAP’s ability to run an applications business and a platform business at the same time. “We hear from many vendors, ranging from supply chain to business intelligence, that SAP fails to offer a compelling thid-party ecosystem. The SAP NetWeaver team may certify partners and establish alliances, but the applications salespeople continue to make every effort to keep these third-party vendors out of the SAP installed base.”

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As Business Intelligence Software Goes Mainstream, Choosing the Right Vendor Is Vital

DUBLIN, Ireland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43461) has announced the addition of Business Intelligence to their offering. In one of the most influential books ever written on software marketing, Crossing The Chasm, the author, Geoffrey Moore, talks about “Main Street”. This is when a market has reached a level of maturity and a low enough price point that the technology is ready for wholesale adoption by corporate enterprises. When the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and SAP announce strong interest in the BI market you know Main Street is here – the market is now large enough to support the massive investments required for these large players to prosper on a worldwide commodity market basis.

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