Business Process Management News & Articles

In the world of Document Management two of the hottest topics are cloud computing and security. Interestingly, however, it seems that according to a report from Forrester we're not taking to cloud storage at all, and we also discovered that data security is increasingly troublesome. Could it be that there's a link between the two?

Our new weekly column -- SMB Tech Roll Up -- provides you with news about the small and medium business sector, focusing on document management, collaboration and Enterprise 2.0 topics.

This week sees IBM promising more for SMBs, Xerox making moves on the European document management market,  IT managers facing new pressures to produce results and other interesting news from key SMB players.

It's a new year and we bring you a new weekly column with a roll-up of what’s happening in the global document management software space. This series will focus on major news events, research and trends, it will complement another new column which will focus on document management and enterprise 2.0 news exclusively for SMBs (stay tuned).

Despite a slow start to the year this week has brought some interesting research from Gartner and AIIM, a stack of fancy awards for Autonomy and some intriguing new partnerships.

Like the beginning of any other year there’s been a lot of crystal ball gazing about what will and will not happen in the year ahead. Gartner (news, site) is no exception with their latest report on business process management highlighting what they see as the five major trends in business process management for 2010 and beyond.

Document management software vendor Cabinet NG (news, site) has just announced it is going green by integrating with Include Software, which specializes in business process and business management software to the landscape industry.

Even before the beta release last November of SharePoint 2010 there had been a rush to build integrators and connectors for SharePoint. This year, the first of them comes in the shape of Skelta (news, site) which has just announced that its BPM. NET product will support SharePoint 2010.

A new partnership between global IT giant HCL Technologies and Talisma has resulted in the launch of a new hosted customer relationship management (CRM) service that can be used on a case-by-case basis, or based on specific business process management needs.

Last month, in Part 1 of an examination of case management we looked at how Enterprise CMS vendors have been preoccupied with the development of platforms and solutions designed to fill a growing demand for case management software.

Here in the second part of this series we look at  specific software products that companies can use to develop case management frameworks.

In recent months many ECM vendors have been preoccupied with the development of platforms and solutions designed to fill a growing demand for case management software.

But what exactly is Case Management and how do Enterprise Content Management Systems support this growing market?

Editor's Note: Part 2 of this series is now available. See: ECMs that Implement Case Management Frameworks.

First announced early October at Adobe MAX 2009, Adobe (news, site) has officially launched the second version of Adobe LiveCycle ES and prepares to support enterprises as they move their applicatins and servies to the cloud.

The word Adobe (news, site) most often evokes images of PDFs dancing on your desktop. Creative Suite does spring in adding a dash of color. But the Adobe we know offers much more than this and today they are showing just how much.

Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2), the San Jose-based company's answer to building  automated, document-centric business process applications, is being unveiled today at Adobe MAX 2009. This release is packed with so many new tools and functionalities that, if you are like us, you hardly know where to begin. We gave it a good college try though. Have a look.

Collaboration and improved process tools hit Appian which has press releases falling like Fall leaves to celebrate the launch of version 6 of its BPM suite.

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.

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.