New Release of Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3

According to this article in SOA World Oracle has unveiled Oracle Business Process Management 10g Release 3, which will allow business and IT users to collaboratively automate and optimize business processes enabling improved efficiency and agility.

Here are some of the new features the release will offer: new user interface, new modeling capabilities, new business rules and the ability to import models from third-party tools. This release is part of a series that integrates technology from Oracle and BEA systems.

Savvion Planning Customized BPM Solutions for India

As announced in this article from CXOtoday, Ma Ketabchi, CEO of Savvion mentioned that Savvion is “planning a hot of customized BPM solutions”. The specific sectors they are targeting include healthcare, retail, and BFSI. In addition, the company will launch the Savvion Business Solutions Alliance Program. As Ketabchi stated:

‘The core objective of the program is to aid in developing more and more business applications for enterprises. Companies such as Oracle and SAP develop business applications that only have broad applicability, but companies need much more than that.”

Microsoft: Does it own the BPM space?

BPM means different thing to everyone in the corporate world. This post on The Register discusses that whether you view BPM as Business Performance Monitoring, Business Process Modeling or Business Process Management Microsoft seems to be leading vendors in supplying users with workflow solutions, middleware, analytics, and much more.

It will be interesting to see how some of Microsoft’s competitors like IBM, Oracle, and Lombardi will position its BPM Suites to combat Microsoft’s majority share of this area. What are your thoughts on Microsoft and BPM?