Today at Impact IBM announced their next-generation BPMS called IBM Business Process Manager v7.5. At heart it is the unification of WebSphere Lombardi Edition (fka Teamworks) and WebSphere Process Server. Some have called it just “a new coat of paint” on the existing offerings, because the (Lombardi) Process Designer and the (WPS) Integration Designer tools [...]
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With the recent launch of Blueworks Live, IBM has posted an updated version of a set of training videos called Process Mapping 101. Together with colleague Shelley Sweet of I4 Process, I created the original set for Lombardi back in 2008 , and the new version updates it to Blueworks Live. This one doesn’t focus [...]
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Scott Francis takes me to task a bit for not completely buying IBM’s public mass ingestion of the Lombardi Kool-Aid in Las Vegas a couple weeks back. I have to admit, however, that I did come away from the event with a different notion of how Lombardi will ultimately be incorporated into the WebSphere BPM [...]
Not a lot of BPM news out of IBM at Impact this week. The most surprising thing for me about it is how thoroughly Lombardi – acquired just a few months ago – has enthralled the WebSphere executives. At the opening keynote, WebSphere GM Craig Heyman called Lombardi Teamworks, rebranded IBM WebSphere BPM Lombardi Edition, [...]
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This morning Progress Software announced the acquisition of Savvion for $49 Million. On the heels of last month’s acquisition of Lombardi by IBM, I think it’s safe to say this marks a real turning point in the market for BPMS. To me it is a disquieting one, as it suggests the failure of BPM’s “business [...]
IBM left a voicemail at 4:58am today about a 6am briefing to announce the acquisition of Lombardi. Thanks for the heads up, guys! Sandy Kemsley does her usual great job with the briefing play-by-play, which I would describe as predictably unrevealing, except for the fact that Lombardi will be brought into WebSphere/AIM instead of being [...]
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Yesterday Lombardi updated the analysts with their 1H08 results. They are saying 85% license revenue growth (vs 1H07), 50% total revenue growth, and sales bookings “close to triple” last year, 20% ahead of plan for the year. They added 30 new customers, with growth especially strong in Europe. Average selling price – the make-or-break metric [...]
Lombardi’s Jim Rudden posts an admittedly “cranky” piece about software giants like SAP crashing the BPMS party. His beef with those companies, which he calls Stackers, is that they pursue the promise of BPM half-heartedly. Actually, they have done everything in their power to bury BPM deep in what they view as their real market… [...]
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