ProcessMaker

Colosa Inc. is pleased to announce the timely release of ProcessMaker version 2.0.31 today August the 2nd, 2011. This release marks the third time in a row that Colosa has been able to launch a new release of ProcessMaker the first Tuesday of the month, in accordance to the new release schedule. So congratulations to [...]

In my first post in this series on selecting the correct BPM software or work flow software product, I looked at how the analysts recommend you should go about buying your enterprise software.  In this blog post, I want to go a little deeper on the flip side and explore deeper what NOT TO DO [...]

Please note: This only works with the development release of ProcessMaker and it’s not recommended for production. IIS is not oficially supported at the moment, but it’s being heavily tested and debugged. The following screencast shows you how to set ... [More] up a local windows webserver and install ProcessMaker under IIS using Webmatrix. Edit: You can also [...] [Less]

The following is a list of recommendations for selecting the best BPM Software or Workflow Software Vendor for your next BPM software project.  I have read various versions of this list produced from numerous BPM Software industry analysts.  Here is what the analysts tend to say about the best way to select BPM Software or [...]

There is a lot of news at the moment regarding the safety of data and the viability of business applications in the cloud. And for those companies that are already using a hosted application such as hosted CRM, hosted ERP, or hosted BPM software, this recent news can be quite disconcerting.. After all a company [...]

This past Thursday I attended a session at the the Gartner BPM Summit in Baltimore entitled “The Great Case Management Debate.”  The session was moderated by Gartner Research VP Toby Bell with participation by two other Gartner VPs:  Janelle Hill and Kimberly Harris-Ferrante.  Later that same day, I was in a workshop moderated by Nathaniel [...]

And, as any college graduate knows, the bible of better technique is Strunk & White’s Elements of Style. Bruce gets this (and has positioned his book to become the Elements of Style of BPMN), and after 12 hours in his course I can understand why ... [More] he doesn’t seem so interested in the BPM Suite itself. The fact is that the BPM Suite tends to work just fine whether it is ProcessMaker, Pega, IBM, Appian, or another. The problem is much deeper and needs to be solved in a much less automated way. The problem is the “style.” This problem needs to be solved through better education and better teachers. We need to train better process consultants and this is a long and arduous journey with no shortcuts. [Less]

According to a new Gartner Report, ProcessMaker is not the BPM Software market leader; IBM is. I would be lying to you if I said I wasn't disappointed. Apparently, IBM beat us again. In fact, they have 24.7% market share - more than double their closest competitor in the BPM Software space. Now that's a tough competitor. Hats off to them.

Business Process Management (BPM) represents activities carried out by global enterprises in optimizing and adapting their business processes through the use of software tools. The global economic recession has emerged as a blessing in disguise for ... [More] the evolving BPM market, providing a solution to deal with falling revenues and margins. The recession has affected the long-standing customer relationships of several businesses, forcing companies to focus efforts on adopting new initiatives for improving customer-centric processes. Adverse economic conditions have also brought to fore the significance of operational transparency, control and auditability, largely due to the cost-containment measures adopted by companies [Less]

The debate about the trends of Social BPM Software and Social Workflow Software continues to rage in the BPM Software blogs, forums, and linked-in groups.  It is definitely a debate worth having.  The BPM industry tends to lean a little to the right and be a little grey on top, so it makes sense that [...]