Introduction to Evaluating BPMS Suites
In 2005 BPTrends published a number of reports on specific BPMS products. To provide a consistent approach for our evaluations, we began with a discussion of all of the things that a BPMS evaluation team might consider. Later, we removed the reports from out website because the information provided about the tools was no longer current. Since then several readers have said that they missed the introduction we had included with each report describing our evaluation criteria. This Article reproduces the evaluation criteria and associated discussion, as it appeared in 2005. Most of the information is still useful, although the BPMS scene has changed somewhat since then. For example, some BPMS tools now include Process Mining capabilities, others include Case Management facilities, and most now support Cloud Computing. We have not expanded this discussion to take all of the recent developments into account. Thus, you should read this document as a historical introduction to early BPMS tools, aware that the tools have evolved since this discussion was created.
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