According to Gartner: BPM ‘Cool’ Vendor List

Gartner has just published its list of ‘cool’ Business Process Management providers of 2010 – those who made it to the top 5 are:

BizAgi

BizAgi, based in Bogota, Colombia, focuses on handing more responsibility to business users to improve processes. Its principal products include a free BPMN 1.2-based modeler, an Express Edition and its “model once, execute anywhere” edition which have all contributed to building a wide customer base that includes 150 academic institutions.

ICCM Solutions

ICCM Solutions provides an IT service management (ITSM) and service desk solution built on Metastorm BPM. Its principal product, e-Service Desk , which comes on-premises and as a hosted service, supports Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes across all phases of the business process life cycle using a BPMS that gives scope for continuous improvement in processes.

PNMsoft

PNMSoft is a member of the Microsoft Business Alliance, has developed processes that help business process outsourcing companies respond more efficiently and quickly to the changing process needs of their clients. It also focuses on improving end-to-end demand management processes between the business process outsourcing provider and its client organizations.

Questetra

Questetra provides a cloud-based solution to manage human workflow and improve worker productivity. It offers business people, who have no programming or systems knowledge, a simple to use workable platform for process improvement running on a shared Amazon EC2 infrastructure. It charges a US$ 10 per end user per month fee for this cloud service.

Whitestein Technologies

WhitesteinTechnologies applies processes that have the ability to self-adapt to changing business conditions. Focusing on an agile and dynamic world, the architecture, using a multiagent approach, ensures self-adaptive behaviour in processes whether those behaviours are proactive or reactive.

By Gartner’s definition, a BPM suite must include 10 areas of functionality:

1. Process execution and state management engine
2. Model-driven composition environment
3. Document and content interaction
4. User and group interaction
5. Basic connectivity
6. Business activity monitoring (BAM) and business event support
7. Simulation and optimization
8. Business rule management
9. System management and administration

10. Process component/registry repository