BPMS Watch Ratings
by Bruce Silver and BPMInstitute.org
Bruce Silver has reviewed 11 leading BPM Suites using a common analytical framework. Based on this research, they now offer a comparative scoring of these offerings. These results are published using a common outline as "The BPMS Report Series" and available for free from BPMInstitute.org.
Each BPM Suite was rated for both human-centric and integration-centric processes, and the human-centric evaluation was further broken out into two subclasses, production workflow and case management. Thus, identifying the BPMS "leaders" depends on whether your goal is a single BPMS to handle all types of processes, or separate consideration of human-centric and integration-centric processes, or even specific focus on production workflow or case management. Also, the analysis concerns only the current BPMS offering. It ignores factors in other analysts' ratings - potentially important in the buying decision - such as the vendor's size, financial condition, international sales capability, and "completeness of vision".
Based on the analysis, the leaders when considering a single BPMS for all types of processes are… READ MORE

