Computerwoche is one of the most read magazines for IT-Professionals in Germany (I would actually assume it is THE most read one), and therefore I was quite happy I could contribute an article about BPM-Software to their last edition. Well, the article is in German, of course, but if you are brave enough you will download the PDF and try to read it anyway If not, here comes the core message of it: I divided BPM-Systems into the categories “pure play”, “embedded”, “saas” and “open source”. I consider that useful, although there can be overlappings such as an open source – BPMS that is embedded into a commercial product like an CRM or ERP. Then I thought about the future of commercial pure play BPMS and came to the result, that a shift of market shares is likeley, boosting the relevance of both Open Source BPM and SaaS BPM at the expense of “classical” on premise, closed source BPM products, which was also one of the reasons for our engagement in the Activiti project.

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Die Konsolidierung im Markt für BPM-Systeme ist ja nichts Neues – ständig übernehmen Firmen andere Firmen. Die neueste Akquisition hat Progress Software mit Savvion vorgenommen. Wirklich interessant daran war für mich vor allem der Blog Post von Bruce Silver dazu, und der Kommentar des Produktmanagers von Appian. Keine wirklich neuen Erkenntnisse (in dem Kommentar), aber wunderbar pointiert. Außerdem hat Bruce die Frage nach der Sinnhaftigkeit von BPM(S) aufgeworfen, die ja auch in anderen Blogs immer wieder gestellt wird. Und das muss ich natürlich kommentieren
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