Microsoft and BPM
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By: Simon Holloway
Classification: White Paper
At the Gartner Business Process Management Summit on February 26th, 2007, Microsoft announced the formation of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance (BPA), which extends the benefits of business process management (BPM) to an array of companies and offers enhanced functionality to existing Microsoft customers. The Business Process Alliance is a group of 10 industry-leading software vendors focused on making BPM solutions more broadly accessible and helping companies take advantage of BPM tools based on the Microsoft platform. Through this alliance, a broad range of customers will benefit from a powerful set of end-to-end tools for automating and optimizing business processes. This paper provides an overview of Microsoft’s strategy and a brief description of the 10 partners and their products.