New Gartner Magic Quadrant for BPMS

I just found out from the Column 2 blog by Sandy Kemsley that Gartner published earlier this month their latest Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites (BPMS). A BPMS must according to Gartner support all the following process management capabilities:

• Modeling and analysis of business process to identify the best possible design
• "Round trip" behavior between the model and its physical implementation
• Coordination of multiple interaction patterns among users participating in the process
• Providing participants with access to various forms of business content for manipulation and management within the process
• User manipulation and management of business rules
• User and group collaboration in the process context
• Monitoring, reporting, analysis and notification of work activities and business events
• Process simulation and optimization using real-time, historical and estimated data values
• Management of all process components through their life cycles

You can access the report for free courtesy of Pegasystems. And I strongly recommend any project team tasked with improving business processes to first sign-up for AIIM's BPM Certificate Program that covers the above issues.

By Atle Skjekkeland.