Business Process Management - What's Changed?

PR have released the new version of QPR Suite 2016.

Genpact has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PNMsoft. PNMsoft is a leading Microsoft BPM software vendor.

PNMsoft open a DACH headquarter in January 2016.

Bizagi have recently announced the release of its newly rebranded Process Xchange.

QPR Software have announced the release of its enhanced QPR ODM Template version 2014.2

Bizagi announced today the opening of its brand-new US headquarters in San Francisco and relocation of its UK headquarters to offices close to London.

Bizagi Ltd has announced on August 11th 2014 the release of version 10.5 .NET & JEE release of its BPM software

Today's release is particularly significant as 90% of improvements came as a direct result of their 150,000-strong user community.

Announced in November 2013, QPR has released QPR Suite 2014, including QPR EnterpriseArchitect, QPR ProcessDesigner, QPR Metrics and QPR ProcessAnalyzer.

Compuware has signed an agreement for Marlin Equity Partners to acquire Compuware's Changepoint, Professional Services and Uniface business units.

QPR Software announced on November 14th 2013 that it will start distributing the new 2014 version of QPR Suite on January 8th 2014

Bizagi have announced a new version (2.5) of their freeware process modelling tool that incorporates simulation capabilities. The simulation capabilities have been provided through collaboration between Bizagi and Lanner.

Active Endpoints has been acquired by Informatica. The news was buried in a press release announcing Informatica’s latest cloud-based product which is dated February 20, 2013. It’s not immediately clear when the acquisition happened.

On March 11th, HandySoft formally announced a change of name to BizFlow Corp

At the beginning of October, Garth Knudson, Director of International Sales and Alliances of HandySoft, gave me a briefing on the new release of BizFlow Plus.

On September 10th, PNMsoft announced the release of the new version of their BPM Suite

In a webinar on November 21st, QPR unveiled the latest version of QPR Suite

The Bosch Group announced that they had completed the acquisition of Inubit AG on October 24th

Singularity has announced the launch of the latest version of their Business Process Management (BPM) and Case Management suite TotalAgility v5.3

Oracle today unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld Oracle Process Accelerators aimed and simplifying and accelerating time-to-value for customers' BPM projects

Progress has announced the release of OpenEdge Release 11 platform

QPR Software Plc announced at the end of July that they were to acquire their process automation partner Nobultec Ltd

Bosch plan acquistion of BRMS vendor - inubit AG

When you look under the covers of an organisation what you find is that every process is started by an event.

The realisation comes to the software market that the new generation of workers need user interfaces that fit with the lifestyle of Facebook & Twitter

At the end of September 2010, TIBCO unveiled their strategy to support

The New Year begins with another acquisition in the BPMS market; this time Savvion by Progress Software.

IBM on December 16th announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Lombardi.

BizAgi, the Latin American BPMS company, have just released a new low-cost edition of their runtime BPMS server, called Xpress. This new release also coincides with a new release of their Process...

Alfresco have recently announced a cloud-based integrated ECM solution with ParaScale, a startup company developing cloud storage solutions. The Alfresco Content Management solution and ParaScale's...

Appian have announced a new release of the Appian for SharePoint module. The new release features ease-of-use enhancements, including Form Pickers and new packaged Appian Smart Services, as well as...

On May 1st, Singularity launched the new release of the BPMS platform (V4.0). The key new feature of this release is the ability to provide the BPMS capabilities of the tool in a SaaS mode....

May 8th saw Cordys make the announcement that they had joined the Google Enterprise Partner program and were delivering structured workflow capabilities to the Google Apps suite of communication...

This is the sixth in a series of articles I shall be producing based on a major piece of research being undertaken by Bloor Research on the BPMS market. For those of you who read IT-Analysis.com...

This is the third in a series of articles I shall be producing based on a major piece of research being undertaken by Bloor Research on the BPMS market. My thanks go to Matt Durham, VP for Market...

This is the third in a series of articles I shall be producing based on a major piece of research being undertaken by Bloor Research on the BPMS market. What is in the new release of Metastorm and how do their USPs add up?

This is the first in a series of articles I shall be producing on the BPMS market. My thanks go to Dale Skeen, Vitria's CTO for the recent briefing

HandySoft Global Corp announced on July 15th 2008 the release of BizFlow 11.3. This new release provides enhanced visibility and productivity for business users and managers.

Appian announced on July 14th 2008 that it has received $10 million from Novak Biddle Venture Partners in the first round of venture funding in Appian's nine-year history.

Last week saw IDS Scheer make 4 announcements at ARIS ProcessWorld 2008 in Berlin.

Metastorm have just announced the release of version 7.6 of their BPM Suite. This follows a trend in the BPMS market of major independent vendors providing extended support for Microsoft Office Suite 2007 and particularly SharePoint Server.

On April 8th 2008, Lombardi announced the live release of Lombardi Blueprint Spring '08 release. It is immediately available to current users, who number more than 2,400 companies across 88 countries.

Vitria Technology have announced a new Web 2.0 BPM suite, called M3O. M3O stands for Model, Manage, Monitor, Optimize. The product is aimed at getting business users to directly model, manage, monitor and optimize their business processes

January 16th 2008 saw Oracle announce that have reached agreement to purchase BEA Software. Well, there goes another pioneering software company into that corral called Oracle.

Sorry for the pun, but thought this might be a good way of talking about Lombardi Teamwork 6 BPM suite. In Bloor's 2006 BPM Market report, Lombardi were given a "One-to-Watch" status, So what has changed?

Metastorm announced on December 4th 2007 that they had acquired Spotlight Data. Spotlight Data are a software company specialising in process data collection and analysis.

The BPM market is in a process of consolidation, so the key thing for vendors operating in this space is to differentiate themselves from the crowd. Metastorm were one of the early pioneers of the BPM market, so what are they doing?