Two weeks ago Appian launched version 6 of its BPMS, along with a rebooted online collaboration network called Appian FORUM and a suite of professional services offerings. Appian plays in the human-centric business-empowered end of the BPMS vendor landscape along with Lombardi and Savvion. With all the vendors now claiming ease of use, Appian’s new [...]
In IBM’s BPM Suite, the default or foundational offering on the WebSphere side is something called WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition. Here the term ‘dynamic process’ isn’t just the usual marketing doublespeak, but a fundamentally different way of modeling and executing processes, particularly customer-facing ones. It refers to the myriad of process variations that result from differences [...]
SAP is probably the world’s leading supplier of process automation software. Over half of the world’s business transactions, involving 12 Million users in 120 countries, touch one of 140,000 SAP systems. But the company is only now entering the “BPM market” with the launch of NetWeaver BPM, part of the NetWeaver middleware platform.
You would not expect [...]
I will be chairing an all new BPMS Track at BPMInstitute.org’s upcoming BPM Conference in New York City at The Roosevelt Hotel (November 5-6). This track analyzes the latest generation of BPM Suites, and features an extended panel on November 5 in which leading vendors show how their offerings address key topics such as business-IT alignment, [...]
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They would say they never left it, but from a marketing perspective Savvion is suddenly re-emerging from a quiet period with the introduction of version 7.5 and related vertical application initiatives. Since the beginning of the year they have been able to right the ship financially – reporting 6% net profit for the fiscal year, and 16% [...]
The $10 Million series A funding announced by Appian today will be used to expand in a number of areas – marketing, sales, and professional services – but of most interest to BPMS Watch readers, I think, is accelerating the company’s BPM-in-the-cloud offering, Appian Anywhere. Appian is one of very few BPMS leaders actively pursuing [...]
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I see my friend Jesper is moving on from BEA, so the reality of the Oracle acquisition is finally sinking in. When I hear people say that Oracle bought BEA for their BPM, I have to laugh. I’m fairly confident the Oracle crew that went after BEA could not even spell BPM. But no doubt [...]
When I began my BPMS Report series a few years back — actually the predecessor reports, called the Manager’s Guide to BPM Software — my thought was that all that BPMS buyers needed to make a rational choice was a walkthrough of process design using the tools, presented in a standard format and terminology. Those [...]
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