Friday, February 09, 2007

Line56.com: Back to BPM

Line56.com: Back to BPM

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Maximize Business Performance: BPM: The Real Challenges

Maximize Business Performance: BPM: The Real Challenges

Articles on the challenges of business performance management (BPM) usually focus on selecting the right product and getting it properly implemented. While it is true those tasks are fraught with risk, the greatest BPM challenges have little to do with technology.

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Redmond | Redmond Report Article: Process, Process

Redmond Redmond Report Article: Process, Process

In these days of doing more with less, solid process development and management is less of a luxury and more of a necessity. So it should come as no surprise that business process management (BPM) has been getting a lot of attention of late. Both Forrester and Gartner have recognized BPM vendors -- one Windows-based and one open source -- in their market reports.

Forrester Research: The Forrester Wave™: Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q4 2006

Forrester Research: The Forrester Wave™: Integration-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q4 2006

Forrester evaluated leading integration-centric business process management suite (IC-BPMS) vendors across 85 criteria and found that webMethods, TIBCO Software, and IBM have established category leadership based on their combined strength across the three major areas of evaluation: connection, business process management (BPM), and service-oriented architecture (SOA). webMethods excelled overall with the most comprehensive suite of IC-BPMS features. TIBCO scored well due to its high scores in the traditional integration arena and its advanced features for supporting human interactions, while IBM enhanced its high position in this space via its strong support for both BPM and SOA. Oracle retains its place in the Leader category due primarily to the enhanced BPM features that it has recently added, and Sun Microsystems captured a top spot through its acquisition of category-leading products from SeeBeyond Technologies. BEA Systems made a strong surge into the Leader category due to the many enhancements it has made in the areas of both BPM and SOA, and Software AG achieved a top place in the integration suite market for the first time due to its strong SOA features.