Intense rate of change demands IT

Business process improvement (BPM) - getting people to work better, improving how work is organised and smoothing out workflows - tops the list of business priorities for IT organisations today. In a survey conducted by CIO Insight magazine it was seen as the lead IT focus with the two main goals being productivity improvements and cost reduction.

ITP Technology reports on the IT industry arguing that it is the rate of change within the business world that has intensified the motivation for business process improvement. This, coupled with the complexity of the different processes across the enterprise, has made process improvement virtually impossible to execute without the aid of IT automation.

This might explain why the BPM bandwagon is getting a bit crowded. While there are a handful of pure-play BPM suite vendors, there are also many other more general players and they are coming from all technology directions - document management, ERP, enterprise integration, business intelligence, knowledge management, compliancy and SOA to probably name but a few.

TIBCO iProcess Suite was awarded the prestigious Yphise Award, following a comprehensive and comparative assessment of other BPM solutions, including: IBM BPM Suite, Sun Java CAPS, and webMethods Fabric.

The Yphise Award is the only distinction based on an ISO 9001:2000-certified comparative assessment of software products.

The accolade is awarded to the best BPM software company after an in-depth assessment based on Yphise's detailed list of criteria and requirements. This list includes more than 250 technical and functional assessment items for each product.