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Expanding our BPM assessment portfolio: Global 360
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Neil Ward-Dutton
A few days ago we further expanded our library of BPM vendor capability assessments with a new report on Global 360′s offering – looking principally at analystView, Process360 and managerView.
If you want our really quick take (extracted from the report), here it is:
Global 360 is a vendor with a long heritage in the management of business processes, being able to trace its roots to the 1980s as a document management technology provider. After being reincorporated in 2000 as Global 360, the company now focuses most of its attention on two technology product groups: one (Process360) focused on a wide set of BPM scenarios, and the other (Case360) focused more specifically on case management scenarios. In 2008, on the arrival of current CEO David Mitchell (ex webMethods and Software AG) the company launched a new wave of product investment aimed at targeting Microsoft’s technology platform and tools much more explicitly.
The combination of analystView, Process360 and managerView has some really compelling capabilities, most notably in monitoring and optimisation. The Global 360 offering should be particularly interesting to you if you’re looking to build on existing investments in Microsoft platform technologies like SharePoint and BizTalk. It’s particularly strong in supporting sequential workflow and document management-focused process scenarios. In the medium term Global 360 is planning to pull many of the case management features from the Java-based Case360 offering over into Process360, and this will undoubtedly improve what today is only a foundation level of support for case management scenarios in Process360.
Our BPM advisory service subscribers can get in-depth 9-page report free; alternatively our in-depth assessments can be purchased individually (contact sales@mwdadvisors.com if you’re interested). If you’d like to find out a little about our assessment approach, you might want to check out our free BPM Pathway resources – including a webinar entitled Choosing the right BPM technology and making it work for you.
The Global 360 report now sits alongside in-depth assessments of offerings from Appian, Oracle, IBM, Pegasystems, Software AG and TIBCO – together with a host of other BPM-related advisory pieces. We’re planning to publish in-depth reports on Progress Savvion and Metastorm in the next couple of months, too. Watch this space!
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