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BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (BPM)
Effective business process management integrates people, processes and apps to ensure a cohesive team and boost the bottom line. Join us as we explore the BPM market.
We put nine suites through rigorous testing. Our Editor's Choice got the winning bid for satisfying the needs of both business analysts and IT staff with its simulation capabilities and standards support. Find out which offering it was.
The vendors aim to unite Cape Clear's ESB with Appian's BPM, a combination particularly interesting to SOA users considering SaaS.
Version 7.6 of the Metastorm BPM strengthens the company's use of Microsoft desktop technologies, including Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office 2007.
Microsoft was an early promoter of Web services but let others take the lead with SOA. Now it's back, looking to converge SOA with BPM and dominate extranet integration.
Moving to open standards, BPM reengineers its branch system and integrates channels.
In the coming year, you'll hear plenty of experts going on about architecting "agile, competitive, strong-performing" apps that help your organization reduce costs internally, while maintaining customer satisfaction. That's easy to say, not so easy to implement. Here's how to make those new technologies walk the walk for your business.
The acquisition extends Metastorm's portfolio from implementation to design, but will it alienate CIF partners?
Big Blue gets into BPM, while trying to mix social networking with SOA.
The BPM suite now extends deeper into SOA, including what Tibco calls a lightweight ESB.
Enterprise applications such as BI (business intelligence) and BPM (business process management) suites let IT support the increasing need for on-demand, near-real-time analysis and process automation. Find out which of this year's products improve the automation of human workflow processes and raise the bar for providing real-time data analysis capabilities to decision-makers.
Ajax, RSS and Microsoft Office integrations target business-process tools to users, not just analysts and developers.
Aiming to make SOA easier to use, IBM has launched new visual BPM tools, prepackaged SOA apps that target specific industries, and an index to measure business agility.
EAI suites get all your organization's applications to exchange information freely and effectively.
Integration and automation are the trend, but the processes won't gel without IT and business people working together. We give you the lowdown on how to prepare.
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