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Jim Sinur
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42 years IT industry

Jim Sinur is a vice president in Gartner Research after a short stint with a BPM vendor. Prior to that, Mr. Sinur was with Gartner 15 years and helped establish the BPI/BPM areas at Gartner and is considered a thought leader. His research and areas… Read Full Bio

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The Top Ten BPM Technologies

by Jim Sinur  |  March 29, 2010  |  9 Comments

A common question I get on business process improvement technology questions is “What are the top BPM  technologies used today?” Listed below are the most common BPM technologies used (not in any particular order):

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  1. Business process analysis (BPA)
  2. Automated business process discovery (ABPD)
  3. Business activity monitoring (BAM) and business intelligence (BI)
  4. Workflow
  5. Business rule management systems (BRMSs)
  6. Complex-event processing (CEP)
  7. Optimization/simulation
  8. BPM suites (BPMSs)
  9. Application integration
  10. Service-oriented architecture (SOA)

In addition to this list there are other additional BPM technologies and features to consider in helping BPM efforts thrive and are listed below:

  1. Enterprise Architecture Tools
  2. Portals/Workbenches
  3. Enterprise Content Management
  4. Case Management Features
  5. Communication Enablement
  6. Collaboration Capabilities
  7. Social Networks
  8. Business Service Repositories
  9. Composition Environments/IDEs
  10. Legacy Recovery Environments

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  • 1 uberVU - social comments   March 29, 2010 at 4:03 pm

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  • 2 kpo companies   March 30, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    It is fun to see that there are many kinds of systems in the BPO industry and in other industries that we know of. To be able to manage this one is a good one.

  • 3 The Collapse of Complex Business (Process) Models | ActionBase Blog - Thoughts on Collaboration Process Management Unstructured Compliance and Audit   April 2, 2010 at 9:40 am

    [...] vendors are adding rules, complex event processing and process simulators (just take a look at Jim Sinur’s list of the Top Ten BPM Technologies - all valuable stuff, but adding complexity). It seems to me that BPM as a technologyhas moved [...]

  • 4 Jim Sinur   April 2, 2010 at 11:30 am

    I would not suggest thta BPM is getting more technically complex with event management thus leaning away from business. Just the opposite. I would say that business types need to be made aware of events that imply business opportunities or threats. Case management is one way to cope with surprises and is not inconsistent with adapting to events.

  • 5 Gartner’s Sinur says CEP is just another BPM technology | Complex Event Processing (CEP) Blog   April 2, 2010 at 11:57 am

    [...] it looks like the analysts are coming round to the view [...]

  • 6 Ashish Bhagwat   April 5, 2010 at 10:51 am

    Surely, Jim. And these have been converging fast. In my post at http://wp.me/pN8i1-30, I have drawn a view of the converging ecosystem.

    However, one thing we all would want to be sorted out is the lack of synergy among these technologies in practice. The solutions ought to move over the siloed view of technologies to a more converged view.

  • 7 Jim Sinur   April 5, 2010 at 1:00 pm

    Ashish,

    We beleive thta the largest mass of convergence today is the BPMS, but there will be incremental cobinations, Thanks for sharing

    Jim

  • 8 Carole-Ann Matignon   April 6, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    Very useful list, Jim.

    I recommend you go into more details about CEP, BPM and BRMS as you did in that last keynote presentation at BPM Summit.

    I elaborated on your presentation there http://bit.ly/d69Hi7

    As I said before, very inspiring!

  • 9 Brian Anderson   April 21, 2010 at 6:33 pm

    Jim,

    Long time no talk!

    Looking for some recommendations on a short list of Open Source BPM solutions. Do you have a favorite?

    Brian Anderson