June 25, 2014
Cloud Computing: Business Process Management (BPM) Markets to Reach $10 Billion by 2020 Finds New Report
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Market Research Reports, Inc. has announced the addition of “Business Process Management (BPM) Cloud, Mobile, And Patterns: Market Shares, Strategies, And Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 To 2020” research report to their website http://www.marketresearchreports.com
As people move to cloud computing and use their smart phones and tablets to access apps, exception management of business process becomes a significant aspect of doing business. Patterns are being used to control automated process better and interact with it in a more flexible manner, utilizing templates to control the repeatability of model creation…
According to IDC’s recent MarketScape* assessment, 69.7 percent of midsized organizations use the Cloud or have plans to implement within the next 12 months. And, 34 percent of small organizations (<100 employees) are also doing so or plan to do the same.
Seeking to ramp up cloud-computing services for entertainment production, Shotgun Software has agreed to be acquired by software giant Autodesk. Shotgun makes popular production-management software that helps production, post and visual effects coordinate their efforts. By using cloud computing, Shotgun empowers far-flung facilities and locations to work closely together. Companies using Shotgun include DreamWorks Animation, Framestore, Illumination Mac Guff, Blizzard, Microsoft, Walt Disney Animation, Double Negative and Ubisoft.
BMC Software today announced the release of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 4.0 (CLM 4), the first hybrid cloud solution that enforces IT compliance and change management policies across both private and public cloud services. CLM 4 addresses the competing needs for hybrid clouds to deliver fast time-to-value and long- term governance.
Microsoft is rather aggressive in its policy to woo customers and as part of its cloud offerings, it has made changes to price structure of One Drive cloud storage service. In addition, the free storage capacity of One Drive is boosted from 7 GB to 15 GB with a corresponding price reduction for paid models and for Office 365 users. The proposed changes will come into effect in July. Important changes worth noting are:
Last week, Dell released the first user-contributed updates to its Dell Wyse Cloud Connect solution, marking the introduction of several new features for its new enterprise cloud access device. Dell announced the updates to Wyse Cloud Connect earlier this month at a press even in New York, where the company showed off the new capabilities developed directly from customer and analyst feedback since it was first introduced in January.
CloudPhysics is a provider of a SaaS performance and capacity analytics solution, the first in its segment to leverage the informations collected for its customer datacenters to improve the intelligence and effectiveness of the product itself. The company, founded in November 2011 from John Blumenthal and Irfan Ahmad, both former VMware employees, but publicly presented only in July 2012, announced today a new Series C funding of $15M that comes on top of a $10M Series B funding achieved in August 2013 and led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and of a previous $2.5M funding from angel investors and the Mayfield Fund, announced in August 2012, for a total funding of $27.5M in 3 years.
In the eight years since Amazon.com rolled out its cloud-computing business, Amazon Web Services, it has grown from a side project that gave scrappy startups cheap access to computing and online storage to a leader in the fast-growing market for remote computing and storage services. The research company Gartner recently estimated that AWS uses over five times as much computing capacity as its top 14 competitors combined. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has even predicted that AWS may one day be bigger than Amazon’s retail business.