Business Process Management (Technology-Changed) - Bloor Research

Metastorm release a new version of the BPM suite

6th June 2008
Simon Holloway and Jameel Abdul

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.

Lombardi adds to its Blueprint

16th April 2008
Simon Holloway and Jameel Abdul

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.

Are you ready for M3O – Vitria’s new BPM offering?

13th March 2008
Simon Holloway and Jameel Abdul

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

Another one bites the dust

22nd January 2008
Simon Holloway and Jameel Abdul

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.

Teamworking a BPM solution

14th December 2007
Simon Holloway and Jameel Abdul

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 make another acquisition

10th December 2007
Simon Holloway and Jameel Abdul

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.

From Business Strategy to Business Process Management – Metastorm Enterprise

19th November 2007
Simon Holloway and Jameel Abdul

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?