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I see that Sandy already beat me to posting about the (long overdue) 2006 Magic Quadrant for BPMS. I'm hoping that BEA gets republishing rights to this report so that I can give you a link. But in the meantime, I'll summarize in the same way that Sandy did.

As Sandy points out, we did enter the leader's quadrant with this report. In fact, BEA/Fuego leads the entire quadrant in "ability to execute". The other vendors in the leader's quadrant are Savvion, Pegasystems, and Lombardi.

Gartner basically missed a year in publishing the quadrant. So this report is extremely welcome. The BPM market changes quickly and the two year old data in the old quadrant was dangerously out of date. However, it's important to understand that the BPMS is still a poorly defined market. Each of the four leaders has a very different product with very different strengths and weaknesses. I hope to write more about that later this week, because I recently had a very harsh reminder of how different the focus of various BPM products are.

Magic quadrants are only high level summaries, of course, but we're celebrating at BEA this week. Being named a BPM quadrant leader and ESB Forrester wave leader in the same week is a good way to kick off the summer.

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