BPM in The Summer
The holiday months of June to August is not the time when you would normally expect to hear lots of BPM activity but this year appears to be different
The Holloway Angle contains short pieces of news, analysis and opinions on Process (including applications such as ERP, PLM and SCM) and Sensory devices (RFID). Some of this will not be completely thought out but instead I hope you will add value to my off-the-wall thoughts. It won’t always be regular but please feel free to contribute to the debate. May the ping be with you!
Singularity go SaaS with LiveAgility
Singularity announced the release of LiveAgility, their SaaS BPMS offering on January 21st 2010.
RFID tags to be used in flight!!!
MAINtag SAS and Tego, Inc announced on January 12th 2010, that the companies' jointly-developed FLYtag will be used across the Airbus A350 XWB fleet.
IBM announce new version of their RFID Middleware Platform
IBM announced at the beginning of this week an update to their RFID middleware products. The capability of collecting information from RFID devices has been extended to cover any type of sensor....
New Additional Funding for Innovision
AIM-listed Innovision Research & Technology has announced that it has secured funding of nearly $9 million (
A vision of the future local pub
As part of the preparation for St. Patricks Day, Guinness has laid out its vision for the pub of the future. Their innovation team worked with Ben Hourahine, a futurist, to provide a view of...
NFC makes mobile phones the new credit card!!
Did you know that worldwide mobile phones outnumber the number of credit cards in circulation by a factor of 2 to 1? It is therefore no wonder that, based on the work spearheaded by Nokia...
Barclaycard is RFID’d
From last Monday, March 2nd 2009, Barclays customers getting new or replacement Visa debit cards will receive ones containing RFID technology. This contactless technology will allow them to use...
A demonstrator for the new standards for RFID in Libraries
Some of you may have read the interview I did in October 2007 with Paul Chartier of Convergent Software (RFID Standards) and then an article on a demonstrator for baggage handling applications in...
Savvion announce a very profitable 2008
February 2nd 2009 saw Savvion announce their financial results for 2008. The company was profitable every quarter in 2008. They listed their key success factors as: 42 major BPM license...