Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software Market 2010-2014

TechNavio’s analysts forecast the Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software market to grow at a CAGR of 15.5 percent over the period 2010-2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the need to develop efficient and effective marketing management software. The Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software market has also been witnessing increasing adoption of integrated marketing management software. However, implementation of enterprise marketing management software in varying levels of the organization could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. TechNavio’s report, the Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software Market 2010-2014, has been prepared based on an in-depth analysis of the market with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the Americas, and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also covers the Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.Key vendors dominating this market space include Oracle Corp., SAS Institute Inc., Teradata Corp., and Unica.Key questions answered in this report:What will the market size be in 2014 and at what rate will it grow?What key trends is this market subject to?What is driving this market?What are the challenges to market growth?Who are the key vendors in this market space?What are the opportunities and threats faced by each of these key vendors?What are the strengths and weaknesses of each of these key vendors?01. Executive Summary02. Introduction03. Market Coverage04. Market Landscape05. Vendor Landscape06. Market Growth Drivers07. Market Challenges08. Market Trends09. Key Vendor Analysis09.1 Oracle Corp.09.2 SAS Institute Inc.09.3 Teradata Corp. 09.4 Unica10. Other Reports in this SeriesList of Exhibits:Exhibit 1: Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software Market 2010-2014 (US$ billion)Exhibit 2: Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software Market by Geographical Segmentation 2010Exhibit 3: Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software Market by Vendor Segmentation 2010To order this report:Marketing Industry: Global Enterprise Marketing Management Software Market 2010-2014More Market Research ReportCheck our Industry Analysis and Insights

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/global-enterprise-marketing-management-software-market-2010-2014-2012-01-26

If one thing stands out about the design tool space in 2011, it’s that instead of a flurry of semi-esoteric features that only true CAD jockeys can appreciate, a lot of the buzz surrounded conventional information technologies — an indicator of just how far CAD, CAE, and PLM have progressed in terms of being woven into the mainstream computing fabric.

It was just a scant couple of years ago that CAD pundits seemed to spend hours obsessing over the virtues of history trees while indulging in the on-going debate over what modeling paradigm was better — the longstanding, history-based parametric approach or the newer, history-free direct modeling standard. (See: 3D Modeling Debate Spurs New Generation of CAD Tools.)

Pages of reviews and countless commentaries were devoted to deciphering obscure features or command strings that might somehow improve how to define assembly relationships, for example, or simplify fillet creation. The industry has been consumed by new features that advance the hard-core functionality of the tools without necessarily making them easier to consume or integrating them any closer to non-engineering workflows.

Today, the uproar over modeling paradigms has simmered down with most major CAD platforms addressing both approaches quietly and sometimes behind the scenes, so the user doesn’t have to take a stand. Forget about factions arguing about 2D vs. 3D — that’s old news and, again, a non-issue for most users. While no single breakthrough technology knocked it out of the park this year to address the usability issue, all of the major CAD and PLM vendors kept their eye on the prize of making CAD or even CAE more accessible to a broader audience. Here are a few of the developments orchestrating the shift:

1. Integration with mainstream collaboration tools. There was a flurry of activity around syncing up design tools with mainstream collaboration platforms like Microsoft SharePoint. The idea: to allow engineers to move seamlessly between 3D modeling and traditional productivity applications like Microsoft Office and email.

PTC launched a new CREO design platform in 2011.
2. Rethinking the CAD platform. Some vendors, like PTC, challenged the whole notion of the monolithic CAD application. Earlier this year, PTC introduced Creo, its next-generation CAD platform in the form of interchangeable apps that can be mixed and matched based on the functionality that’s required. (See: PTC Launches New Creo Design Platform.)

3. Exploring the social side. There was also a move to incorporate social media functionality into CAD and PLM tools, adding Facebook-like functionality that might help engineering organizations better locate experts, provide feedback on designs, and even stay up-to-date on project status.

4. Building bridges to CAE. CAE software providers also did not sit on the sidelines when it came to usability. There was a concerted effort to integrate CAE applications directly into CAD offerings — the goal being to allow engineers to optimize designs using simulation without having to leave their familiar environments. CAD vendors also devoted energy to building those bridges, mostly by adding more sophisticated simulation capabilities to their own tools as witnessed by major CAD upgrades like Siemens PLM Software’s NX 8.0, which went heavy on enhancements in this area. (See Slideshow: CAE Goes Mainstream and Siemens PLM Upgrades NX With CAE Enhancements.)

NX 8’s high-definition 3D (HD-PLM) environment and visual reporting and analytics tools were expanded in 2011 to enable rich visual interaction.
5. Going mobile. Beyond the usability angle, 2011 was a pivotal year for the design tool segment to keep pace with major trends affecting mainstream business applications. Take mobility, for example, a huge hot button in the enterprise IT space. The trend started to percolate in design tools this year with some of the leading providers, including Siemens PLM Software, PTC, Dassault Systèmes, Maplesoft, IMSI, and, in particular, Autodesk, testing the waters with a handful of early mobile design tool apps meant to test engineers’ interest and experiment with what functionality makes sense on a mobile platform. (See: Autodesk Amps Mobile Sim With ForceEffect.)

6. Experimenting in the cloud. The cloud is yet another area where design tools took a step toward enterprise computing. While most major enterprise platforms from CRM to ERP have embraced the cloud format for a couple of years now, CAD and PLM tools have lagged behind, that is until this year when Dassault Systèmes and Autodesk laid out formal cloud strategies for their entire CAD and PLM portfolios. While it’s still early in this transition, expect to see a lot more to come in this area. (See: Dassault Makes Major Play in the Cloud and Autodesk Cloud Makes Its Official Debut.)

Despite the fact there wasn’t any bang-up technology upheaval this year, 2011 certainly laid a pretty solid foundation for changes that are bound to propel CAD and PLM further away from their niche application roots to becoming key players in the mainstream computing fabric of organizations across all key industries.

Source:http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=236258&f_src=designnews_gnews

Diskeeper 2011 is a utility for defragmenting hard disks that replaces the standard built-in Windows disk defragmenter. The company has plenty of experience in this area, as it supplied the technology for the defragmenter included with Windows XP.
A fragmented file is one in which the data it contains has been spread around widely separated parts of the hard disk, making the file slower to open when it’s needed. If too many of a PC’s files are fragmented, overall performance can slow down dramatically.
Although all Windows versions include a disk defragmenter, it can only be run manually. Diskeeper 2011 runs constantly in the background, preventing files and folders from becoming fragmented in the first place. Manual defragmentation can also be done at any time.
It was very simple to install, and the program automatically configured itself to enable protection on all available hard disks, although these settings can be changed later if needed. The version we tested included Hyperfast, which can defragment solid state disks (SSDs ), including USB memory keys. These cannot be safely defragmented with normal defragmentation tools, so if you use these it could be a useful tool. If not, choosing the standard version without Hyperfast saves around £6.
There are few settings to change, but users can choose which hard disks to defragment and whether to use automatic defragmentation or not. For the majority of users there should be no need to change anything, and we found that after a day or two our PC’s hard disks were completely defragmented (we confirmed this with other defragmentation tools). The program replaces and disables the Windows defragmenter, so there’s no chance of conflicts. It took up very few system resources and doesn’t even install a taskbar icon, so in use it is completely transparent.
The main menu was quite confusing, with lots of performance statistics and graphs, but these are quite technical and don’t really serve much purpose except to convince users that the program is working properly.
Despite that, Diskeeper 2011 does an excellent job, and is a great way of keeping the files on a PC’s hard disk optimised with the minimum of effort.

Source:http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/review/2133127/diskeeper-2011-home-hyperfast-utility-software

Andy Mulholland, CTO, Capgemini
My starting point for this blog was going to be about the large Open Source annual event of the year called OSCON 2011 and sure enough it was interesting in terms of the spread of topics and speakers advocating how and where Open Source is growing. True to the spirit of Open Source, the event has made it very easy to ‘participate’ by making most, if not all, of the material available from its website which includes an indexed list of speakers and their slides. What struck me most was that Open Source is now a fact of life, and most IT shops have become users in some way or other over the last few years, so this is a pretty good overview on the topic, but it seems lacking any big news!
What has caught my eye is all the recent material about the way we build and deliver software in terms of methods and an escalating debate as to whether traditional project management is helping or hindering in these changes. This also includes one area that I think may be big news, and makes logical sense as a build on how things are progressing, and that’s ’social coding’. If you are not up to speed on this topic then Rick Freedman wrote a good piece entitled ‘Social coding – the next wave in development’ on the TechRepublic website in July. By the way, the last line in this piece is critical and I will be coming back to this point.
There are several start-ups in this space, but GitHub is the one I am most aware of and is linked to Tim O’Reilly and the Open Source movement, so it’s a good example. The idea is to make it ‘easier to collaborate with others and share your projects with the universe.’ A claimed one million people are using GitHub and have stored two million code repositories for reuse through a set of powerful tools that GitHub was created around.
Why it interests me is that it corresponds to the way business itself is changing, i.e. a focus towards an ever-increasing amount of online interactions and collaborations in the front office around events and markets that are for ever changing, rather than the back office and its large stable of carefully crafted and compliant, maintained, transactional processes. In short, it mirrors the fluid interactions and collaborations to deliver short-term optimizations and success. To me, it’s the shift in organizing how we respond to and deliver to a new generation of requirements that’s the issue, much, much more than the discussions on Agile, Scrum, etc.
Though that’s not to say these topics are unimportant, but it’s a cause and effect issue; the cause for change is business and working changes, the effect is the methods in use to write software change to match. I suspect that some of the issues encountered over the last year really stem from the coding method not being aligned to the project delivery method. Scrum in particular has suffered from this issue so here is my opportunity to point to a new updated set of principles from the founders of Scrum, Ken Schwaber, and Jeff Sutherland, in the form of the definitive Scrum Guide 2011, available together with other interesting stuff from the Scrum website.
So what was the last line in the social coding piece that was so critical? It read: ‘These new social coding tools enable a revolution in product development through communities; the challenge is getting the organization and project teams to think and act as communities.’ I would slightly re-word this and say, ‘think and act as part of communities.’ If the business sponsor is directly and closely engaged with the coding team, managing the requirements and deliverables, and the project manager is not on side enabling this then their role becomes an opposing force, and all too often their mature rulebook based on ‘the way we do things round here’ is simply not appropriate and ends up damaging the project.
A good example is usually the amount and time of testing being correct for a monolithic core enterprise application where failure would literally be catastrophic, rather than a small code object that might be used for four weeks before modification or even being binned. So what could their role morph into? It’s an interesting question that should attract some good posted comments! My view is that we are going to need a new role and emphasis on the continuity of knowledge and approach by being maintained for the whole, and that the project manager becomes more of a mentor and enabler by being able to play the role of the external collaboration manager.

Source:http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/techtrends/2011/111100401.asp

Rekon Technologies, the leading provider of advanced lien release, assignment processing and document preparation software for mortgage servicers, has installed the latest edition of its Rekon software for one of the top mortgage lenders in the nation, enabling the lender/servicer to avoid any backlogs in its rapidly increasing mortgage assignment volume. The top lender, a Rekon software user for lien releases and mortgage assignments since 1997, completed more than 125,000 assignments in the first full month with the latest edition of the Rekon software system installed. The Rekon lien release and assignment software is seamlessly integrated with any servicing software system.

With the escalating volume of foreclosures today, mortgage servicers need to quickly straighten out the chain of title and establish a clear and clean title for delinquent properties in the assignment of mortgages, which ensures successful foreclosure proceedings by publicly documenting the owner of record and safeguarding the right to foreclose. By installing Rekon’s software the top three lender will avoid costly backlogs of mortgage assignments that can delay loss mitigation efforts. Rekon software quickly and accurately creates assignments for lenders and servicers in the more than 3,600 recording districts in all 50 states. The software maintains an up-to-date status on the regulations and requirements for preparing lien release and assignment documents in all recording districts nationwide.

Additionally, Rekon can electronically record assignments in more than 650 counties in the 36 states that offer eRecording for mortgage documents. With its eRecording capabilities, Rekon software can dramatically reduce manual assignments and assignment expenses. A recent lender analysis shows that up to 45 percent of servicers’ assignment volume, depending on their loan portfolios, could be transmitted electronically today.

Senior executives at the top three lender praised the quality of Rekon’s software features and noted that the delivery, installation, testing and go-live process for the software system was fast, easy and uncomplicated, taking little more than a month. “Rekon ensured an efficient and seamless transition for our internal team members responsible for the project,” said a senior executive who requested anonymity. “The Rekon software also is extremely helpful when working with our business partners in the foreclosure process.”

Aurora Marsh, CEO of Rekon Technologies, said, “Rekon’s software is used by the largest servicers in the country and it consistently and accurately handles the growing volume of mortgage assignments facing the industry without a need to outsource, thus giving servicers and lenders of all sizes direct control over their assignment preparation costs. By installing the latest edition of the Rekon software, our top tier lender customer can avoid any backlog of assignments and safeguard its right to foreclosure and sell or transfer loans, including pools of loans, with clear and clean titles.”

Source:http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8838256.htm

Sensible Technologies, a leader in offering intelligent mailing solutions that are easy to use and reliable at a lower operating cost, is unveiling the Document Reliability System™ (DRS), its latest tool to improve the efficiency and productivity of a complex mail operation, at Graph Expo 2011, September 11-14. The DRS software will be demonstrated at Booth 4306 along with Sensible Technologies signature Luxe™ Feeder/Folder.

“We are continually challenging ourselves to offer our customers solutions for their complex mailing needs,” said Earle Painter, Sensible Technologies Vice President of Sales Support and Business Development. “Sensible Technologies DRS is robust enough to handle complex mail’s biggest challenges.”

Sensible Technologies DRS includes three software modules, Output Verification, Enterprise Performance Management and Operations Dashboard, which are engineered and vigorously tested against the same demanding specifications as Sensible Technologies existing equipment.

With an innovative camera system and an intuitive operator interface, DRS Output Verification offers reliability in promising job and mailpiece integrity across the enterprise. The DRS Enterprise Performance Management solution allows users to leverage data to effectively measure and optimize the performance of people and systems whereas the DRS Operations Dashboard allows real-time production monitoring across the enterprise from a single location.

At GraphExpo, Sensible Technologies is also showcasing its partnership with Uluro, a fully automated document production system that allows service providers to streamline and reduce the costs of complex print and mailing processes. While Uluro focuses on data from file receipt through production, Sensible Technologies simplifies intelligent inserting and finishing with easy-to-use equipment and real-time dashboards. The result of the combination allows a customer to manage data from file receipt to mailing, down to the piece level.

Sensible Technologies earlier this year announced a major investment in its manufacturing strategy, research and development and technology in order to provide an alternative to larger, higher priced, more complex systems. GraphExpo is the first peak at the results of these efforts in hardware and software technology. Sensible Technologies high performance feeder/folder and intelligent inserter solutions, which are highlighted on the show floor (Booth 4306), deliver industry-leading uptime to help increase productivity and capacity. Sensible Technologies intelligent mailing solutions are designed around helping clients solve the most important business challenges to deliver better, faster service to customers.

Source:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/09/12/prweb8786782.DTL