Product Reviews are in depth descriptions and evaluations of business process change products and services, written by individuals with particular expertise in, or knowledge of, the business process change market, and the product or service being reviewed. All Product Reviews are listed here in the order they were initially posted to this site, beginning with the most recent posting.

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• Singularity Process Platform, Version 4.4
  David Nicklin - July 06, 2010
  The Singularity Process Platform™ (SPP) is an enterprise-scale Business Process Management system that supports the entire lifecycle of business process management, from initial modeling, through execution, monitoring, and optimization. Singularity is focused on enabling companies to become more agile, by developing and delivering comprehensive BPM solutions that handle the full spectrum of business process types. Read the complete Report for a description of all of the features of Singularity Process Platform.
  

• AuraPortal's AuraPortal BPMS, Version 4.0
  June 01, 2010
  AuraPortal is a BPMS software package developed as a 100% Internet enabled platform that provides an enterprise-wide or departmental solution for the complete management of business processes. AuraPortal’s innovative approach incorporates, in one seamless set of 6 essential applications, the following components: 1) Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) with innovative Business Rules system, 2) A new paradigm of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) totally built with Process Pattern templates, 3) Supply Chain Management, also built with Process Pattern templates, 4) Intranet/Extranet platform with dedicated workflow for collaboration, 5) a Document Handling system that includes Microsoft SharePoint, and 6) Customizable Portals for Enterprise Content Management.
  

• BOC’s Adonis, Version 4.0
  Tobias Rausch - May 04, 2010
  This report focuses on ADONIS, BOC’s graphical business process modeling and analysis tool, outlining its standard components, optional add-on components, and various interfaces. The report also contains information based on the latest addition to the BOC Management Office family – The ADONIS Process Portal (APP). The APP is a new web based tool that provides role based access to company models through a standard web browser. The APP provides the user with easy-to-use functionality for reviewing and editing model content supporting the process management lifecycle.
  

• Appian BPM Suite, Version 5.7
  John Flaaten - July 07, 2009
  The Appian Enterprise BPM Suite is a 100 percent Web-based solution, including integrated knowledge management and real-time analytics. Appian simplifies process collaboration between business and IT, allowing all users to be part of the process of achieving corporate goals. Appian Anywhere, the first and only complete BPM Suite available on-demand, delivers all the power and functionality of Appian Enterprise via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. To view the complete description of Version 5.7, follow this link to BPTrends Product Reports.
  

• Product Report of the Month
  John Flaaten - May 05, 2009
  TIBCO iProcess™ Suite (TiPS), Version 11.0, is largely based upon the Staffware iProcess Engine (iPE) along with additional areas of functionality from TIBCO (TIBCO acquired Staffware in June 2004), notably TIBCO Business Studio™ and third party vendors. The product set provides a wide range of BPM functionality, ranging from the Eclipse based modeling and simulation environment, through a highly scalable process engine, into process monitoring and analytics. The various components can be mixed and matched, depending on client objectives.
  

• IBM FileNet Business Process Manager
  May 06, 2008
  IBM FileNet Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) provides a comprehensive set of capabilities for the end-to-end automation, management, and optimization of a content and human-centric, information-rich business process that involves people, content, and systems. FileNet BPMS consists of an integrated suite of BPM products that enable organizations to manage the full lifecycle of their business processes—from modeling and design to execution, monitoring and optimization.
  

• IDS Scheer's ARIS Platform Products, Version 7.2
  April 01, 2008
  For business process modeling and analysis, IDS Scheer markets ARIS Business Designer and ARIS Business Architect. The former is an entry level tool intended primarily for users just getting started in business process modeling and analysis as well as for general (i.e., non-technical) business users that just want to model their process model parts of a company-wide business process and enterprise architecture. The latter is a high-end product that provides all the facilities and features required to support enterprise architecture management and that enable the enterprise-wide, global definition and design of business processes as well as their analysis and optimization. ARIS Business Architect integrates all features for analyzing and optimizing an organization business processes based on a common repository. For a detailed quantitative analysis of process correlations, resource allocations, weak-points analyses and processing times IDS Scheer offers ARIS Business Simulator as a simulation engine for realistic simulation and dynamic analysis of business process organization and operational structure.
  

• QualiWare ApS’ QualiWare Product Suite, Version 4.3
  kuno - March 04, 2008
  The QualiWare Product Suite provides a repository-based set of tools for modeling business, architecture, integration and optimization—including the development and management of business and IT architectures, business processes, enterprise architecture management, quality management program support, and IT solution development and implementation management. The QualiWare modeling solution provides not only the business model definition and build environment, but also supports the ongoing management and continual improvement of the business models.
  

• Casewise Corporation’s Corporate Modeler, Version 10
  Paul Harmon - February 04, 2008
  Corporate Modeler features a rich and intuitive visual modeling environment designed for ease of use. It enables the automated graphical representation of information using a large selection of tools including: Matrixes, SWOT, risk and sensitivity, performance, impact and dependency and gap analysis, ad-hoc querying and reporting, RACI, UCON Compliance Analysis, plus automated generation of Gantt charts, “Magic” quadrants and Boston Grids. Corporate Modeler also offers a sophisticated simulation capability as standard with the toolkit.
  

• EMC Corporation’s Documentum Process Suite
  Paul Harmon - January 08, 2008
  EMC Corporation’s Documentum Process Suite is a comprehensive business process management (BPM) solution for analyzing, modeling, orchestrating, and optimizing a wide range of enterprise processes involving people, systems, content, and data. The Documentum Process Suite delivers a complete, integrated BPM suite, process analysis and real-time performance monitoring, a scalable process execution engine, and the ability to support information-rich processes through EMC technologies.
  

• BPTrends Product Report of the Month
  Paul Harmon - December 04, 2007
  Metastorm BPM is a highly scalable, enterprise software suite designed to support rapid deployment and customization of an unlimited number of human and system-based processes within and across mid-to-large size organizations. Metastorm BPM addresses the full process lifecycle – from modeling and automation to analysis, simulation, and continuous improvement – all via a single user interface designed to shield users from multiple disparate systems and applications. Follow this link to read the full Metastorm BPM 2007 Suites Report.
  

• BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite
  Paul Harmon - November 06, 2007
  BEA AquaLogic BPM Suite is a comprehensive BPMS platform that integrates modeling, implementation, execution, and monitoring of end-to-end business processes to support continuous optimization of the entire business process lifecycle.
  

• Singularity’s Singularity Process Platform, Version 3.4
  Paul Harmon - October 02, 2007
  Singularity’s Singularity Process Platform, Version 3.4 (SPP) supports the entire life cycle of BPM, from initial monitoring, through execution, monitoring, and optimization. SPP focuses on high speed process modeling and rapid deployment of new processes. Read the complete Singularity Process Platlform Product Report to find out more. To view other entries in the BPTrends Suites, Modeling and Rules Reports, click on Product Reports on the navigation bar on the HOMEPAGE.
  

• webMethods Fabric Version 7.0
  Paul Harmon - September 04, 2007
  webMethods Fabric is a comprehensive BPMS that supports end-to-end creation, analysis, and management of automated system-based processes, human tasks, and rapid application development within the same environment. For a thorough description of the features and functionality of Fabric BPMS, read the complete report.
  

• Proforma's ProVision 4.4.1
  Paul Harmon - October 05, 2004
  This month we look at the latest update of Proforma’s ProVision product, which has been enhanced with a Web Server and a very flexible new enterprise architecture interface. Using ProVision 4.4.1, enterprise models, process diagrams or rules can be easily be made available to managers throughout a worldwide organization.
  

• Business Process Management and Chordiant
  Paul Harmon - September 07, 2004
  This month Paul Harmon reviews Chordiant’s BPM suite, which can be used either as a stand-alone BPM development environment or as a BPM application that comes with a BPM suite and an extensive knowledge of customer-facing business processes.
  

• Popkin Software's System Architect, Version 9.1
  December 02, 2003
  In 2002 Paul Harmon reviewed Popkin's System Architect 9.0. Popkin has recently released version 9.1 with some important improvements -- including the first implementation of BPMN, so Paul has updated our review to reflect the latest features.
  

• Casewise's Corporate Modeler, Version 9.0
  Paul Harmon - November 04, 2003
  Paul Harmon looks at the latest version of Casewise's popular business process modeling environment, Corporate Modeler, Version 9.0
  

• Product Review: Proforma's ProVision Suite, Version 4.2
  Paul Harmon - May 04, 2003
  Paul Harmon looks at the latest release of Proforma's popular business process modeling tool in some detail.
  

• Popkin Software System Architect, Version 9.0
  Paul Harmon - January 01, 2003
  A review of Popkin Software's popular software tool for enterprise architecture, process modeling, and software generation. Version 9 is significantly improved because it now uses Microsoft's SQL Server as its repository and the OMG's XMI to assure that models can be easily moved to other tools or repositories.