The Shifting Market For Business Process Analysis Tools

Business process analysis (BPA) began as a separate market run by vendors that developed specialized tools, but a combination of forces is buffeting these vendors: Their markets withered during the economic slowdown of 2008 and 2009, and leading vendors of business process management (BPM) platforms either bundled or began to provide free modeling and analysis tools. As a result, enterprise architecture (EA) tool vendors that had integrated process capabilities are shifting their strategies to downplay these capabilities. These trends point to a shifting market for independent business process analysis tools. Forrester believes there is still value in independent business process analysis tools but that this market will be a niche one for vendors offering integrated modeling and repository management capabilities that enable sophisticated impact analysis and leverage state of the art collaboration techniques.