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September 29, 2006

The Forrester Wave™: Business Process Modeling Tools, Q3 2006

IDS Scheer Clearly Leads, With Proforma And MEGA Close Behind

by Henry Peyret, Colin Teubner

with Connie Moore, Eric Kim, Lucy Fossner

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Forrester evaluated leading business process modeling tool products based on 121 criteria and found that IDS Scheer clearly leads the market — thanks to good functional coverage, templates, and Web-based architecture. Proforma, another Leader, has better functional coverage but falls behind on strategy and market presence compared with IDS Scheer. MEGA also leads with a homogeneous offering that has no major shortcomings. Casewise, EMC, IBM, iGrafx, and Telelogic are all Strong Performers. iGrafx provides a good, well-integrated product but lacks strategic vision and market positioning relative to the other products. EMC just acquired ProActivity and will need to enhance templates and life-cycle management to better fit EMC's Documentum product. IBM's product suffers from poor architecture, lack of templates, no process-specific repository, and overlap with IBM's Rational modeling tools. Telelogic is still integrating Popkin System Architect (acquired last year), and must improve life-cycle management. Casewise is kept out of the Leaders by product strategy.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemModeling: Not Just Drawing Flowcharts

itemBusiness Process Modeling Tools Evaluation Overview

itemAll Vendors Are Mature

itemVendor Profiles

itemSupplemental Material

Forrester conducted product evaluations in Q1 and Q2 2006 and interviewed 16 vendor and user companies including Casewise, EMC, IBM, IDS Scheer, iGrafx, MEGA, Proforma, and Telelogic.

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Analyst: Henry Peyret
Technology: Application Development, Application Development Processes & Tools, Business Process Management, IT Management, Packaged Applications, Portfolio Management & PMOs
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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