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Bruce Silver's BPMS Watch
Dr. Bruce Silver is an independent industry analyst and consultant focused on business process management and content management technologies. He is the author of the BPMS Watch blog, writes the BPMS Watch column on BPMInstitute.org and also serves as BPMS Track chair at the Brainstorm BPM Conferences. See More by Bruce Silver webMethods Tops Forrester Wave Report
webMethods, which at the beginning of 2006 couldn’t even break into the BPM analysts’ magic circle/wave/whatever, ended the year taking top honors in the Forrester Wave for Integration-Centric BPM. For you non-subscribers, you can get the report from the webMethods Web site. webMethods has put a lot into its new version of the offering, part of the Fabric 7.0 suite. In addition to a real SOA platform under the covers -- a big part of why Forrester liked it -- webMethods has put in some BPM features that will knock your socks off. A unified Eclipse design environment with separate perspectives for business analysts and developers, no-code, drag-and-drop design, including an Ajax-slick task UI, an enterprise metadata library (a result of the Cerebra acquisition), an integrated Blaze Advisor for business rules management (sourced from Fair Issac and truly part of the BPMS). Also included is what has to be the best business activity monitoring (BAM) -- by far -- in the BPM space (and maybe even in the non-BPM BAM space as well). I’m hoping to add webMethods -- along with some others who did well in the Forrester Wave, like Oracle and Tibco -- to the 2007 version of my BPMS Report series on BPM Institute. Dr. Bruce Silver is an independent analyst, consultant and author of the BPMS Watch blog. Write him at bruce@brsilver.com  E-MAIL | SLASHDOT | DIGG This is a public forum. CMP Technology and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. CMP Technology makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of CMP Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in CMP Technology's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business.
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