Metastorm Shares BPM Innovation Plans

01/23/2007

Metastorm, a provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software for organizational agility, innovation, and governance, today announced its product innovation plans for 2007.

ebizQ received the following details:

As the focus of BPM moves from addressing discrete departmental challenges to improving overall enterprise agility, Metastorm will deliver a host of new product features in its Metastorm BPM® Suite that will provide additional value to existing customers and attract new business opportunities – providing users with increased visibility and knowledge for innovation, agility, and heightened levels of corporate governance and leadership.

Building on its solid foundation of proven results in modeling, automating, integrating, and analyzing critical business processes, Metastorm will focus on 4 key themes in its BPM Suite this year:

• End-user Empowerment to Foster Innovation – Metastorm will provide powerful new collaboration features integrated with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Knowledge workers of any level can create content, engage in collaborative processes, and perform work directly from Office 2007 applications like Excel, Word, and Outlook, without the need to access a separate process view or task list application. Support for Vista Gadgets and the Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon in Metastorm BPM allows for real-time monitoring and control in addition to increasing worker productivity.



• Extensible Process Design and Deployment Platform – In addition to standard support for BPMN and Metastorm’s highly popular Stage Action Role (STAR™) modeling notation, Metastorm will provide an environment whereby partners and customers can extend the power of Metastorm’s Process Designer by adding their own modeling notations, services, and events quickly and easily. Deployment will remain as easy as a one-step publishing action that will extend the process out to participants across a variety of platforms and interfaces – taking the concept of a virtual, mobile work environment to a whole new level.



• Bringing Business Value to SOA Initiatives – Building on early thought leadership in tying together BPM and SOA, Metastorm will continue to expand its Universal Process Orchestrators for web services, Java, and .NET to allow both business and IT users to tie SOA components into meaningful business processes. The strength of the Metastorm Integration Manager module ensures that mainframe and other critical legacy applications can be exposed as services and controlled and managed in a service-oriented architecture. These capabilities promote increased collaboration between business and IT and help both groups better align objectives.



• Governance and Business Performance – Metastorm led the market in blending BPM and BI by introducing Metastorm Insight for advanced process intelligence in 2004. In 2007, Metastorm will extend its dashboard and reporting capabilities to incorporate scorecard technologies and external baseline metrics, including industry best practices, key performance indicators, and target benchmarks that can be linked directly to Metastorm BPM processes. This will enable organizations to close the gap between high-level strategic objectives and lower level process/business execution.

“In 2006 BPM became a necessity in order for organizations to stay ahead of their competitors and be prepared for business process changes and regulatory challenges,” said Greg Carter, CTO and vice-president of product development for Metastorm. “In 2007 our customers will derive even greater value from Metastorm BPM as the focus shifts from solving departmental challenges to enabling the entire enterprise to adopt a process-centric philosophy that embraces newfound visibility and agility to leverage new opportunities, innovate, and effectively tackle any business challenge to gain market leadership.”

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