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Metastorm Seeks to Grow European Presence with AcquisitionNovember 16, 2007
Metastorm Corp. announced its second acquisition of the year on Wednesday, revealing its intention to purchase a European services organization. The acquisition of Process Competence, a European consulting firm specializing in helping organizations design and optimize customer-oriented business processes, follows Metastorm’s acquisition this past summer of Proforma Corporation, a vendor of enterprise modeling and business process analysis solutions. No financial details were released for this latest acquisition, but Metastorm stated it would be completed November 19th. Process Competence was already a certified Metastorm partner and a licensed distributor for the Metastorm ProVision modeling suite, one of the products that Metastorm acquired through Provision.Read more.
September 14, 2007
E2E is bringing its solution, the E2E Bridge, to the global market. The E2E Bridge is a UML-based enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides code-free, model-driven integration with a company’s existing back-end systems. The E2E Bridge supports service-oriented architectures (SOA)...Read more.
June 7, 2007
HandySoft was an early player in the pure-play BPM market. The company’s BizFlow solution gained attention early as a flexible process management tool that was particularly adept at helping organizations manage their compliance needs. After releasing several SOX-based and compliance...Read more.
May 9, 2007
The emergence of BPM software as a service is continuing with an announcement by Lombardi recently. On April 30th, Lombardi released its new Blueprint solution for general availability. The software is available in a hosted model to business customers, and reflects the move in the enterprise computing market to leverage software as a services-based solutions. Read more.
April 24, 2007
No matter what sized company you are, there’s a good chance you have more than one business process that revolves around requests and approvals. While general business process management and workflow products can be used to automate such processes, a suitable and more tactical solution might be enterprise software specifically optimized for request/approval-types processes. Read more.
April 6, 2007
In an interesting development last week, webMethods announced that it would be acquired by Software AG in a cash buyout deal valued at $546 million in cash, roughly a 26-percent premium over its stock price. The combination of the two...Read more.
March 8, 2007
On February 26th, EMC, a storage management leader, announced its comprehensive product offering for Business Process Management. The company, which is the sixth largest software company with annual sales of $4.25B in 2006, is bringing an impressive portfolio of integrated solutions for managing content and optimizing business processes.Read more.
September 15, 2006
Please consider joining us next week for a special Upside Research webinar on maximizing return on investment using business process management with SOA Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Time: 8:00 AM Pacific | 11:00 AM Eastern Duration: 1 Hour Register...Read more.
August 18, 2006
IBM surprised the industry last week with an announcement of its acquisition of FileNET Corp., a leading content management platform provider. The $1.6 Billion cash deal is scheduled to close by the end of Q4 2006, and will provide a...Read more.
July 19, 2006
Recently, Metastorm released an expanded and updated version of its BPM product line, Metastorm BPM Version 7.0. Metastorm is a well-established BPM company that has been working aggressively to expand its capabilities and customer base over the past few years....Read more.
April 11, 2006
Recently, IBM made a significant announcement updating the progress of its SOA-related products and services. As readers may recall, this announcement follows on the company's product rollout last September (See Upside Research Brief from October, 2005) of a number of...Read more.
March 29, 2006
Tune into this on-demand Webcast to learn how BPM technology can help your organization design and model routine business tasks to deliver high business value and increase return on investment. Join noted industry analyst Dave Kelly of Upside Research and...Read more.
March 2, 2006
he threats to corporate security are numerous, complex and unfortunately growing. The need for security has blossomed as our business practices have become more global, more fluid and have increasingly extended beyond the physical walls of the corporation. No longer...Read more.
January 25, 2006
Overview While businesses continue to try to adjust to changing economic and market conditions, interviews conducted by Upside Research with leading global 2000 executives continue to highlight the role that process-oriented and rule-driven IT solutions can play in both increasing...Read more.
January 25, 2006
While businesses continue to try to adjust to changing economic and market conditions, interviews conducted by Upside Research with leading global 2000 executives continue to highlight the role that process-oriented and rule-driven IT solutions can play in both increasing business...Read more.
November 2, 2005
In September, IBM made announcements that strengthened its position as a leader in services oriented architectures and established its position in the important Business Process Management market. While the company has long espoused services oriented architecture (SOA) as a means...Read more.
October 28, 2005
The Details Consolidation in the BPM market came this month in the form of a merger between a BPM pure-play and a relative newcomer to the BPM space. On October 5th, privately held Metastorm announced that it would acquire CommerceQuest,...Read more.
July 11, 2005
BPM adoption continues to spread across all industries, as we hit the halfway mark of 2005. No longer limited to obvious verticals like financial services and manufacturing, BPM's broad appeal is spreading to any company with processes that require a...Read more.
March 14, 2005
Details on the Deal On March 14, 2005, IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ascential Software, in deal valued at $1.1B and expected to close in the 2nd quarter of 2005. Once acquired, Ascential Software will report to Janet...Read more.
February 2, 2005
The applications of Business Process Management cross industries both vertically and horizontally. Opportunities to improve processes that run the business exist in all pockets of an organization, from back-office functions to customer-facing processes. Upside Research continues in its efforts to...Read more.
December 8, 2004
After a promising start to the year, BPM has continued to gain visibility through the final quarters of 2004. A recent informal market survey that Upside Research conducted with both BPM vendors as well as BPM corporate adopters indicates that...Read more.
November 16, 2004
Building applications and automated IT processes that are more responsive to business change is a key goal of business process management (BPM) software and new IT technologies like Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOAs). They enable organizations to create modular...Read more.
November 11, 2004
Recently, Ultimus unveiled plans to take its BPM platform to the next level. Based on the core belief by Ultimus that the greatest benefits from BPM come once an organization starts using an automated process, Adaptive Discovery™ technology is designed...Read more.
November 4, 2004
Upside Research strongly believes in the value that formalized business rules can bring to process automation, and the value of business process management solutions to an organization. To us there's no doubt that having a strong business rules capability is...Read more.
August 30, 2004
Taking a closer look at how a company has successfully implemented Business Process Management is an effective tool for organizations considering BPM solutions. It offers a chance to better understand product selection criteria, implementation issues, best practices, and tangible business...Read more.
August 16, 2004
Things are starting to pick up in the BPM Market. As summer fades into September, leading BPM vendors are making announcements around new upgrades and enhanced functionality to their BPM suites. One of the first companies out of the starting...Read more.
July 12, 2004
Hosted applications are nothing new. Application Service Providers (ASPs) made their meteoric rise (and crashing fall) in the late 1990s, as an offshoot of the Internet Boom. The premise was to provide enterprises with the full features and functionalities of...Read more.
July 4, 2004
It's always easier to understand what you need to know after you know it. Especially when it comes to a broadly defined market such as Business Process Management (BPM). While trying to understand any new technology can be difficult, getting...Read more.
June 22, 2004
Last week brought summer (finally) and BPM seekers to Boston. Upside Research attended the DCI show, held at the Boston Marriott Rowe's Wharf (in our own backyard), and saw some encouraging signs that the BPM market is headed for expansion....Read more.
June 16, 2004
Legacy and niche applications, databases, mainframes, and systems are (and will continue to be) important components of many organizations' IT infrastructures. Being an enterprise BPM player requires connectivity and integration of processes running on legacy and mainframe systems, along with...Read more.
June 1, 2004
In the old old days, just before the World Wide Web and the Internet were the next big things (the mid-late 1990s), the dominant emerging application architecture was something called client/server. In fact, there were a raft of client/server tools...Read more.
May 18, 2004
The winds of change continue to blow through the corporate business and IT worlds, and according to the latest Upside Research, Inc. vendor survey, business process management (BPM) is sailing into the picture for more companies than ever before. The...Read more.
May 5, 2004
Government regulations and mandates are nothing new. Even before the English put a well-known tax on tea in the 1700s, American companies have been complying (or in that case, rebelling against) government regulations. While no one has rebelled against it,...Read more.
April 26, 2004
Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are nothing new. They've been around (in one guise or another) since at least the early 1990s. In fact, the latest development in service-oriented architectures-Web services-has now been around approximately four years. So, what's the big deal...Read more.
April 23, 2004
This morning, Tibco Software Inc announced it had reached an agreement to purchase UK-based Staffware plc for approximately $217 million. While Tibco is well known for its message bus software and has a strong EAI heritage, particularly in high-end applications...Read more.
April 8, 2004
In a previous Upside Update, Upside Research marked 2004 as the year to watch BPM. A notable development that substantiates this prediction is the decision by the Business Process Management Group (BPMG) to boost its presence in the U.S. The...Read more.
March 9, 2004
As we outlined in the last two Upside Update newsletters, Upside Research believes that 2004 will bring BPM products that are more business focused. With a surprisingly strong offering in its new release of Fuego BPMS 5.0, Fuego is set...Read more.
February 18, 2004
In the last edition of the Upside Update, we began our look at the BPM developments-to-watch-for in 2004. This week, we'll round out that look with several additional important changes to watch for as BPM vendors release new versions and...Read more.
January 21, 2004
Although it's still early, 2004 may well be the year for BPM. Over the past two years we've seen the business process management (BPM) market continue to mature, as more and more organizations look for BPM products to automate and...Read more.
January 13, 2004
Throughout the last few months of 2003 and even shortly after ringing in the New Year, Upside Research was speaking with numerous vendors in the BPM space as well as a number of global organizations currently implementing BPM. Through the...Read more.
December 3, 2003
Time is everything in the business world today. Customers want information and product faster than ever, and with the global nature of business, they often require around-the-clock service. 3Com, a leading provider of voice and data networking products, services and...Read more.
November 23, 2003
Almost by definition, Business Process Management (BPM) products will be used by business users. Of course, BPM products require sophisticated backend connectivity capabilities (you actually have to coordinate systems, transactions, and data exchanges, after all), but as the BPM market...Read more.
September 12, 2003
Adhering to new regulations or emerging industry standards, even though necessary, can be downright painful for some organizations. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is one of the new compliance regulations that many companies are just starting to apply to their...Read more.
August 20, 2003
When you get right down to it, automating business processes is only the first step. To really capture the value of a Business Process Management (BPM) solution, organizations need to use them for continuous process improvement-not simply automating a process...Read more.
January 14, 2003
Business Process Management (BPM) is a multi-faceted technology that impacts a variety of roles within an organization. Developers, IT Architects, Analysts, Business Users, and Process Managers all are involved and impacted by the automation of a business process. The challenge...Read more.