As I trailed a few days ago, we’ve now published our BPM vendor capability comparison, 2H08 report – as with the individual vendor assessments, anyone with (free) MWD Guest Pass membership can get the report right away. The report provides an overview of the state of the BPM technology market today, explains our approach to [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 by adminAfter a few weeks’ hectic work, I’m delighted to say that today we published comprehensive updates to all our existing BPM technology vendor capability assessments – they’re all now live in our Guest Pass research library, available free of charge. Click on the links to access the updated assessments: Appian, IBM, Lombardi, Oracle, Software AG, [...]
Posted on Friday, December 12, 2008 by adminI just came across an invitation to an upcoming webinar from Metastorm and ICCM – which is advertised as exploring how BPM technology can help you implement IT Service Management improvements as promoted through frameworks like ITIL. I’m really pleased to see this webinar coming about. Over the past year, as we’ve been actively researching [...]
Posted on Thursday, December 11, 2008 by adminToday we published a new Strategic Insights report in our BPM advisory service, which examines the emerging trend for BPM technology providers to explore software-as-a-service (SaaS) models for delivering their offerings.If you’re a subscriber to our BPM advisory service, you can read the report here. When we looked into this topic, we found that in [...]
Posted on Friday, November 28, 2008 by adminI’m currently finalising my draft upcoming report on BPM and SaaS, which aims to help companies work out to what extent SaaS-based tools and offerings should have a place in their BPM strategies. As part of the research for the report I’ve been looking around for new companies focusing on the place where BPM and [...]
Posted on Monday, November 3, 2008 by adminOver on the main MWD blog, I just posted a piece providing my perspective on what IBM’s doing in event processing (or what it currently calls Business Event Processing, or BEP). Much of what IBM’s doing has ramifications for its BPM and SOA initiatives. The BEP story is a little confusing today, but there’s no [...]
Posted on Friday, September 12, 2008 by adminAs part of our BPM Continuous Advisory Service, we’re carrying out twice-yearly research studies which capture information about the state of maturity and practice of BPM in European businesses. We’ve finally finished analysing the results of our first study, and published the report. For me, the most interesting insight was that given the state of [...]
Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by adminAfter months of tweaking and review, our coverage of IBM’s BPM technology offering is now live. The delay is mostly due to the breadth of IBM’s portfolio (the assessment report runs to 33 pages, whereas most of the others come in around 20 pages) – combined with the fact that, just as we were about [...]
Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by adminWe just published two new “On The Radar” reports on process technology vendors in our “Guest Pass” research library. Both vendors are taking an approach that’s outside the mainstream, and both are focusing primarily on opportunities with small-to-medium businesses. RunMyProcess provides a process design and deployment platform that’s been designed up-front to be delivered through [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008 by adminToday we’ve expanded the vendor coverage in our BPM service, by adding an assessment report on specialist vendor Appian. The assessment report is published within our “guest pass” research library, and so is available to download by any member of our reader community (guest pass membership is free – sign up here). Appian’s detailed assessment [...]
Posted on Monday, June 2, 2008 by admin
