Enhanced business process suite available

Oracle's enhanced Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite is available and is aimed at improving collaboration between business analysts and IT departments, reports MC Solutions.

The updated version supports BPMN and BPEL standards, and offers greater productivity, operational efficiencies and innovation, with business and IT users.

Oracle says it is based on an underlying common model format, dubbed the Process Blueprint, and that users will find bi-directional synching capabilities, so that business analysts and developers can collaborate using tools appropriate to their own trades.

IBM has rolled out new products to help companies become more efficient and handle bottlenecks in their business processes, says RCP Mag.

The solutions add to IBM's arsenal of business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) offerings.

IBM is extending some capabilities from a business strategy perspective. There are a couple of announcements around BPM enabled by SOA, and in the area of enabling customers to quickly build composite business applications, says Beth Smith, VP, WebSphere solutions and tooling.

Lombardi has teamed up with Attevo, a global business and IT consulting firm, to jointly market and sell the strategic advisory and consulting services from Attevo combined with Lombardi's Teamworks and Blueprint BPM products, reports eBizQ.

The strategic partnership will enable the companies to speed up process improvement efforts for global food and consumer packaged goods manufacturers.

"Lombardi's BPM software allows us to help our clients implement process improvements quickly, and achieve measurable returns, without compromising the accuracy or usability of the completed solution," said Lorine DeHuff, partner at Attevo.