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Savvion, a business process management (BPM) company, has introduced Savvion BusinessManager 7.5, a business process management suite designed to allow users throughout an enterprise to create and manage the business processes. The new suite is the next generation of Savvion BusinessManager 7.0, first announced in November 2006.

By letting employees get involved "immediately" in the creation, deployment and use of BPM, BusinessManager 7.5 is relying on its user friendliness and its efforts to reflect "how people are already used to working." If it sounds folksy, it is.

Alero Technology, a provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software products, launched Alero 2008 R1 ECM system with Oracle 10g and 11g support, enhanced compliance, electronic signature management, process simulator and a new .NET library.

Enterprise Content Management provider Open Text is diving deeper into content transactions by announcing a new solution called Transactional Content Processing (TCP). This new solution takes the company further into the world of business process management -- a place where content and transactions are tightly intertwined.

BEA, a leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has harnessed the powerful forces of the sea, resulting in the new BEA AquaLogic User Interaction Suite. It promises to help organizations roll with the power of the changing IT landscape, notably, the recent popularity of SOA, by driving new modes of collaboration, and improving productivity and participation.

With compliance issues top of mind for companies today, Identity and Access Management are critical components of any application. Keeping track of many users and their access to many different systems is often difficult and time consuming.

The Dot Net Factory understands this and has released the latest version of its EmpowerID suite. EmpowerID v4 is a Role-based Access Control (RBAC) suite for all enterprise resources.

EmpowerID offers a complete identity lifecycle management suite built on a .Net-based Service Oriented Architecture that utilizes Windows Workflow Foundation. And it’s based on Business Process Management.

Now if that doesn’t peek your interest….

CMS Watch and AIIM are joining forces to help enterprises in North America and Europe better understand business process management.

CMS Watch is an analyst firm that releases industry-oriented reports, while AIIM serves as the international authority on ECM, providing courses, certification and awards in the sector.

Business Process Management (BPM), while in demand, isn't yet implemented consistently or systematically across organizations -- at least, not by those surveyed by the Enterprise Content Management Association's Industry Watch study.

This was the overriding theme of "BPM: Not Just Workflow Anymore," which was released this week.

If the lack of quality business process management (BPM) functionality is tarnishing what has otherwise been a satisfying experience with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, then look no further than Skelta's SharePoint Accelerator 2007.

If you ever wanted to create a catalog request, write a certificate of origin or issue a self-billed invoice, but were totally lost as to how to go about it, great news: you are saved.

These are just a few of the whopping 23 new document types available under UBL 2.0. OASIS, which last year played a major role in helping define international ECM standards, just approved v2.0 as an OASIS Standard, the highest level of ratification issued by the international standards consortium.

If you are into BPM, and that's more and more of you lately, Gartner -- the heavyweight amongst the IT research giants -- is running their Business Process Management Summit this February 26th through 28th in San Diego, California.