Picking Up The Pieces: What BPM Suite Market Consolidation Means For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Air Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010

Cost: $250

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Who should attend: Business Process professionals

Description:

Significant consolidation is taking place in the BPM suite space, with larger middleware vendors such as IBM and Progress Software gobbling up smaller pure plays like Lombardi Software and Savvion. This has left many Business Process & Applications (BP&A) professionals anxious to understand what's driving this latest round of BPM suite consolidation and nervous that their BPM suite investment will disappear into a maze of competing process technologies under a single-stack vendor.

In this teleconference, Forrester Vice President Connie Moore and Forrester Senior Analyst Clay Richardson highlight key drivers behind the latest round of consolidation in the BPM suite space. During the session, they discuss strategies for BP&A professionals to assess and minimize the potential fallout from their BPM suite vendor being acquired.

Agenda:

• Middleware vendors shift their focus from IT to the business.
• BPM consolidation promises better collaboration between all process roles.
• Picking up the pieces when your BPM suite vendor has been acquired

Vendors mentioned: IBM, IDS Scheer, Lombardi Software, Progress Software, Savvion, and Software AG

Related Research:

The Importance Of Matching BPM Tools To The Process

by Ken Vollmer, Clay Richardson, Craig Le Clair, September 4, 2009

What IBM-Lombardi Means To Application Development Professionals

by John R. Rymer, Clay Richardson, February 9, 2010

Use Lean Discovery To Accelerate The Return On Your BPM Investment

by Clay Richardson, July 14, 2009

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