Published on the 08/05/2013 | Written by Newsdesk
Gartner says it expects Australian organisations to spend almost $70 million on business process management suites (BPMS) in 2013…
The figure represents an increase of 10.4 percent over 2012 with growth driven by the advent of open source BPMS and intelligent BPMS.
Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst, Janelle Hill – who will deliver a keynote presentation at Gartner’s Business Process Management Summit in Sydney 13-14 May – said, “Significant changes in the BPMS marketplace over the last two years have altered the market landscape.”
She identifed these as “growing interest in open-source BPM-enabling technologies, market consolidation driven by several acquisitions and the advent of next-generation intelligent BPMS (iBPMS).”
According to Gartner the two most significant changes were: Adobe taking a major step away from the BPMS market in late 2011 when it announced that it would ramp down its investment in its LiveCycle BPMS and restrict its focus to the public sector and financial services; and Progress Software selling Savvion, a leader in Gartner’s 2010 BPMS Magic Quadrant.
Hill said, “As public companies in a market full of privately held companies, these exits have raised red flags for customers and prospects and will impact overall market revenue growth. Some of this installed base may be replaced in the two years following these vendors’ announcements. Despite consolidation pressures; however, we also continue to see many new BPMS market entrants.”
Other significant trends, according to Gartner, are the growing interest in open-source BPM-enabling technologies and the advent of the next generation of BPMS (iBPMS) that expand traditional BPMS capabilities by adding new functionality such as near-real-time process intelligence, advanced and embedded analytics, complex-event processing (CEP), support for social collaboration and support for mobility.
“BonitaSoft, for example, was founded just three years ago and has already reached more than 1.5 million downloads of its open-source BPMS,” Gartner said. “Red Hat also acquired Barcelona-based Polymita, highlighting its recent acceleration of its move into the open-source BPMS market with technology that compliments jBPM. In addition, an open-source ECM vendor Alfresco, has an open-source workflow engine project called Activiti.org.” Also, Gartner said, a number of vendors had updated their products to become iBPMSs.”
Hill concluded, “The [BPMS] market is now mainstream and experiencing continued, healthy growth… Business managers and knowledge workers are being asked to make faster and better decisions in an ever-changing business context. However, they cannot do so without improved visibility into their operations and environments.
“To meet this challenge, leading organisations are seeking to make their business operations more intelligent by integrating analytics into their processes and the applications that enable them. This trend towards intelligent business operations represents a significant shift in BPM tool capabilities and is being adopted rapidly.”
