There’s no doubt about the growing interest in consuming Business Process Management software as a service via public or private Cloud models. Yet as leading IT analysis firms have only fairly recently acknowledged on-premise BPM as a truly “mainstream” enterprise technology, organizations can’t be blamed for wondering about the maturity of BPM in the Cloud. Cutting through the noise, what’s the real substance? When will SaaS delivery of BPM reach a critical tipping point in terms of capability and acceptance?

According to research from Datamonitor, that day is fast approaching, More »

Tags: , Appian 6, Appian Anywhere, BPM, Business Process Management, Datamonitor, SaaS BPM by Ben Farrell
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Industry analysts are now labeling BPM as a “mainstream” technology based on its growing level of adoption among end-user organizations. There is another equally powerful indication: the growing hunger among software and hardware companies to embed BPM platforms to improve and speed delivery of their own goods and services. The reasons for this trend are obvious, yet profoundly important.

BPM can enable software vendors to rapidly create new revenue streams by bringing new solutions to their customers – and what could be more important during a time of economic constraint? More »

Tags: , Appian, Appian 6, BPM, Business Process Management, OEM, Ricoh, VAR by Marc Wilson
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There’s a lot of discussion right now about applying Lean principles to BPM initiatives – and for good reason. BPM is about removing waste across the enterprise and maximizing all facets of performance, ultimately to enhance the delivery of goods, services and support to customers. Lean is a philosophy and methodology for creating maximum value with less work, originating from the base notion that anything that doesn’t directly add customer value is wasteful. More »

Tags: , Appian, Appian 6, Appian FORUM09, BPM, Business Process Management, Forrester, Lean BPM by Ben Farrell
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One problem with “hot” technology markets like BPM is that while industry hype raises awareness of the need, it also breeds lots of confusion for end user organizations. Industry pundits are ratcheting up the urgency meter, exclaiming that “BPM is mainstream” and if you’re not in the game, you’re falling behind. At the same time, the related flood of theories and jargon about strategies, technologies, and methodologies coming from these same pundits (and vendors, too, of course) tend to cloud the waters rather than clear them. More »

Tags: , Appian, Appian 6, BPM, Business Process Management, Gartner by Malcolm Ross
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Appian Principal Consultant Glenn Smith has just published the second installment of his 2-part look at “BPM – The Next Stage of End-User Programming” on BPM.com. In Part 1, Glenn discussed the feasibility of using commercial BPM systems as a platform for end-user programming. In Part 2, he examines the value of doing so.  More »

Tags: , Appian, application development, BPM, Business Process Management, end-use programming by Ben Farrell
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For years, Appian’s nearest competition was Lombardi, followed by Savvion.  In just under a month, both have been acquired.   While Savvion had long ago faded from competitive viability, its acquisition by Progress Software puts neat punctuation to the era of crowded and overlapping BPM pure-plays – ending it, as it were, with a bang.
Nearly everyone ‘wins’ here – even external parties. More »

Tags: , Appian, BPM, Business Process Management by Matt Calkins
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