'Pure play' BPM leads growth

The focus on business process management (BPM) as an organisational discipline has grown rapidly, particularly over the past year as the slower economy forced "doing more with less" to the top of every CIO's agenda, states CIO.

According to a recent report by Gartner, spending on BPM software is expected to increase by 5% over the next 12 months. Over the years, BPM software has evolved from its early roots in workflow to a more comprehensive 'pure-play' BPM software that offers graphical process design, process automation, and process monitoring and reporting capabilities for human-centric processes.

It was this pure-play BPM software that delivered such strong results for early adopter organisations worldwide and helped to drive the increased interest in BPM.

Skelta Software, a player in the BPM arena, revealed that their flagship product, BPM.NET, is compatible with Windows 7, according to PR.com.

According to Skelta, its BPM solution provides enterprises with a strong and collaborative platform that automates the sequence of human and system activities that are required to complete specific business goals.

Arvind Agarwal, CTO, Skelta Software, said: “In the case of Windows 7, we are one of the first ISVs to be named compatible with Windows 7 and we plan to take full advantage of the reliability, performance, security and ease-of-use features delivered with Windows 7”.

NetView Technologies has filed a suit in US District Court in Boston against Microsoft, reports Mass High Tech.

The company claims the software giant infringed its patent on a business method for extracting data from spreadsheets. Its software uses Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet application - widely used to track quotas and incentives - as its user interface.

Founded in 2000 by Robert Handsaker and Gregory Rasin, NetView is a BPM software maker whose flagship product is an application designed to manage employee incentives by tracking sales, sales quotas and compensation.