BPM vendor capability comparison report
As I trailed in my
last BPM blog entry, having published seven new or updated BPM technology assessment reports last week we're now in a position to release something that pulls all our summary analysis together in one place.
So we published our
BPM vendor capability comparison, 2H08 report this morning - anyone with (free) MWD Guest Pass membership can get the report right away. The report provides an overview of the state of the BPM technology market today, explains our approach to assessing BPM technology offerings, and lays out a high-level comparison of the offerings from the seven vendors we currently cover (Appian, IBM, Lombardi, Oracle, Pegasystems, Software AG and TIBCO).
This is the first time we've published such a report, and we'd love to know what you think. It took a fair bit of effort! As we refresh our assessments (on a 6-monthly cycle) we'll be revisiting this - so expect to see an update, with more vendors covered, in late spring 2009.
Labels: BPM, MWD, vendor comparison
IT spending in a downturn: broadening sourcing options, rather than radical cuts
A few weeks back I
highlighted that we'd just started running the first in a series of short polls in conjunction with
CIO UK (part of the international network of CIO magazines) - with a poll focused on how CIOs expect their spending to change in 2009, given the current economic climate.
The first poll threw up some really good insights, which corroborated what I'd heard in a number of other CIO interviews I'd just completed (at the
Nordic CIO Summit I chaired at the end of November).
We take the output from each poll we run, and write an exclusive piece for CIO UK - which is then used as the kick-off point for some further CIO debate that's published online.
Here's the first article. The headline: on balance, UK CIOs appear to be expecting IT budgets to dip marginally overall, but key projects will still progress (albeit in more bite-sized chunks). Fixed IT costs / IT infrastructure budgets will be managed very tightly - but in a way, this is "business as usual" these days. The health warning: with the economic / political situation changing almost daily, the analysis and assumptions could well be out of date by the time you read the article!
The next poll is already
live on our website: it's on the topic of collaboration and social software. Are companies doing more than paying lip-service to collaboration, and what do people think about social software's value? With our short poll we hope to be able to report some more interesting insights for CIO UK.
If you're a CIO or IT Director - or you know someone who is - please take 2 minutes to provide your input (or send your contacts the
link)! We hope to be publishing our CIO UK Debate piece on this topic early in the New Year.
Labels: CIO, collaboration, MWD, open source, outsourcing, poll, social software
A big BPM research refresh
Over on our dedicated BPM blog (if you're interested in BPM market developments and what we're doing in the BPM space, you might want to subscribe)
I just highlighted a slew of new and updated BPM reports that we published today.
As is the case with a great deal of our research output, these reports are now available to anyone, free of charge, within our Guest Pass library. We've updated our in-depth assessments of the BPM offerings from Appian, IBM, Lombardi, Oracle (formerly BEA), Software AG and TIBCO; and we've also added an assessment of Pegasystems' offering.
Check out this BPM blog entry for all the links to the reports. There's around 150 pages of in-depth analysis in these reports in total, so - if you'd like a bit of light Christmas holiday reading, now's your chance!
Also - if 150 pages is a little bit too much detail for you, watch this space. In a couple of days, you'll see us publish an overall comparison summary report that compares all the offerings we analyse, side-by-side. That'll be more like 15 pages long ;-)
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