Appian 6 offers shared BPM components

Appian's business process management (BPM) application platform has been updated to give developers more opportunities to re-use components, and the company is building a community to facilitate sharing among customers, states SD Times.

Appian 6 became generally available this week. It lends itself to reuse with application templates, process templates, and shared components, said Samir Gulati, vice-president of marketing.

"Other BPM vendors have templates, but we have hotlinks within the product for developers to browse the repository and download components that they think are useful to their own process application," he added.

Savvion and Patni Life Sciences have partnered to deliver BPM-enabled solutions for clinical operations on top of Savvion's Life Sciences Foundation says, The Medical News.

Savvion and Patni will apply their experience to help pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, and clinical research organisations meet the various business, regulatory, and IT challenges they face across the drug development life cycle.

Expediting the complex, global regulatory process governing drug trials is a major challenge for life sciences firms. A major obstacle is how to reduce the time to get new drugs to the market while still maintaining the highest quality standards.

Ultimus, a provider of BPM software solutions, recently enhanced its product by adding support for virtual technologies, reports BusinessWire.

In response to growing market demand and use of virtual technologies in software application production environments on the rise, Ultimus now supports its customers in this cost and time saving option.

"Virtualisation helps organisations to cut costs, better utilise assets, reduce implementation and management time and complexity, all of which are crucial in this economic environment," stated Alan Dayley, research director at Gartner, in a statement in Enterprise Systems.