IBM acquires Lombardi

IBM has completed its acquisition of Austin-based Lombardi Software, a developer of business process management (BPM) software, says Texas Tech Pulse.

According to IBM, Lombardi will become part of its application integration software portfolio. IBM announced it would buy Lombardi in December.

As part of the close of the acquisition, IBM said Lombardi's employees will join IBM. Terms of the acquisition have not been announced.

Pinnacle People, a provider of services to the UK government by assisting unemployment and pension sectors for the Department of Work and Pensions, has deployed the Appian BPM to enhance delivery on new and existing contracts, reports TMCnet.

Appian BPM Suite is the Web-based BPM platform which provides simple and effective BPM applications. Appian BPM Suite can also be used in building applications to support HR, financial services functions and processes.

The DWP recently contracted Pinnacle People for bringing JobCentre Plus Support Contracts to two UK regions in order to help people return to their jobs. The Appian BPM solution will help Pinnacle manage the end-to-end contract delivery and also support HR, finance and supply chain functions and processes.

The Exton, software solutions company introduced a series of two workflow management tools for Bentley Systems aimed at helping structural engineers better manage their integrated projects to completion, writes Contact Magazine.

The tools are called Integrated Structural Modeling (IMS), which seamlessly join data from multiple workplaces into one repository for more efficient information sharing and updating.

The IMS has two components. The Structural Synchroniser V8i compiles structural model data from various applications into a shared repository with the ability to track and compare revisions between versions to coordinate data synchronisation across projects.