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"Can you afford to use IBM for BPM?": the BPM battle heats up
Monday, May 19, 2008 by admin
Lombardi has just turned the heat up a notch in a battle that’s been waged quietly, behind closed doors, for a year or two now: the battle between specialist BPM vendors (like Lombardi and Appian) and “platform” vendors (like IBM, SAP, Oracle).
Lombardi has just released a tool that it claims shows how Lombardi’s offering stacks up against IBM’s in terms of ease of installation, ease of use, and so on. See Can you afford to use IBM for BPM? It’s partnered by a knowingly pugilistic blog post by Jim Rudden, Lombardi VP of Global Marketing. This is a pretty aggressive move that shows that Lombardi is prepared to fight for its share of what is a healthily expanding market as BPM becomes more of a “mainstream” proposition – and what’s more, take the fight right to the most gorrila-y of the 800-lb gorillas in the BPM technology marketplace.
Of course IBM is making its own moves – it recently announced that it’s now offering a “BPM Suite”, bringing together FileNET and WebSphere technologies. We’ll be providing an in-depth assessment of the IBM offering very soon – so watch this space.
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