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Last month, in the wake of the Metastorm and Global 360 acquisitions, OpenText announced the creation of the Business Process Solution Group.

The Group gathers OpenText’s business process management offerings together as OpenText sets itself as a major contender in the BPM space. We talked to the Group’s CTO Steve Russell and asked him to outline the new Group’s strategy.

It’s been a busy year for OpenText in the business process management space with the acquisition of Metastorm in February followed by Global 360 in July. To close the year, OpenText has announced the creation of a new BPM unit and what looks like the development of a new BPM strategy.

It’s been another good quarter for OpenText, even with the cost of the Global 360 and Operitel acquisitions taken into consideration. According to the figures, which were released late yesterday, revenues jumped by 32.5%, with profits of US$ 35 million up from US$ 21.7 million a year earlier.

OpenText (news, site), generally speaking, has had a good year, but the release of results this week that shows a 12% rise in profits for the fourth quarter may make it a tad uncomfortable.

OpenText (news, site) is beefing up its case management capabilities with the acquisition of business process management provider Global 360.

If cross-enterprise communications is one of the big difficulties in developing business processes and, as a result, business process management, then this week's upgrade to Global 360's (news, site) BPM suite, which now integrates Microsoft Lync, will go a long way to solving that problem.

Global 360, riding on the back of the increasing interest and popularity of business process management,  has returned some impressive figures for the third quarter that show an overall increase in BPM revenue of 48%.

Tools to support knowledge workers range from email and basic spreadsheets to traditional BPM suites to case management tools. With the recent focus on adaptive case management, what trends should you expect to see in 2011? We asked a couple of industry experts for their opinion.

With many enterprises looking to business process management for cost savings, the publication of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for BPM solutions will enable enterprises to assess the good, bad and indifferent in a market brimming with talent.

Back in the full swing of things this week with Hyland Software outlining its plans to take OnBase worldwide and Office 2011 for Mac finally going to RTM. Xerox has also launched its rebranding campaign, while PSIGEN extends the reach of its document capture software.

Maybe it's just all the good will that is floating around the SharePoint Las Vegas conference, or the lax marriage laws, but whatever it is another two companies have just announced they are getting together.

This union comes in the shape of Missouri-based KnowledgeLake (news, site), which provides scalable document imaging for SharePoint, and Dallas-based Global 360 a provider of business process and document management solutions.