A IBM anunciou hoje a compra da Lombardi Software, uma das empresas líderes no Gartner em soluções de BPMS (Business Process Management System). Abaixo segue o link do press release. Agora vamos aguardar os próximos passos, que deve ser a integração dos produtos da Lombardi com a atual linha de software IBM WebSphere.
Segundo o Gartner (Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites - 2008 2009) a Lombardi tem os seguintes pontes fortes e fracos:
Strengths (Lombardi)
- Lombardi has keen insights into the functions required by each user role involved in the business process life cycle. Lombardi consistently
- produces highly intuitive software that addresses each role's perspective, while providing an integrated round-trip user experience.
- Because Teamworks is easy for business analysts to use, it is well-suited to continuous process improvement programs where empowering business users or business analysts is key.
- The business process executes from the process model, thereby simplifying dynamic changes to in-flight business processes at runtime and preventing design-time artifacts from getting out-of-sync with implementation artifacts.
- Lombardi customer references are among the most advanced in BPM maturity. They demonstrate broad adoption of BPM across an
- organization that yield transformative business results.
- Blueprint appeals to business managers and strategic planners who seek a tool for high-level process diagramming and knowledge capture. It complements the Teamworks process models and is available via low-cost SaaS.
Cautions (Lombardi)
- Customers with smaller deal sizes may find it challenging to command Lombardi's attention.
- Lombardi's support for case management processes is not as strong as some of its competitors.
- Lombardi Teamworks does not offer multitenant SaaS, which some ISVs may need for highly scalable cloud services or enterprises may want for private cloud services.
- Lombardi does not invest in process templates or frameworks or recruit partners to build solution accelerators. These factors may be
- an obstacle for organizations looking for specific process-based applications.
Baseado nas informações acima, grande parte dos pontos fracos da Lombardi devem diminuir, visto a estratégia da IBM, porem é fato (no meu ponto de vista) que estas "fraquezas" devem ser substituídas pelas fraquesas atuais da IBM, conforme abaixo:
Cautions (IBM)
- IBM doesn't have one BPMS product; rather, it fulfills its BPM strategy through federated interoperability across two basic offerings augmented by extended offerings. IBM has made significant progress with integration across the two basic offerings, but has not yet achieved full integration.
- The broader software division’s acquisition strategy will continue to augment IBM's BPMS vision and product road map. Customers will need to monitor the integration of new technologies.
- Individual products in the suite have strong and rich functionality. However, in combination, the permutations of configuration possibilities are overwhelming. Customers usually require help from a service provider.
- WebSphere Dynamic BPMS edition has few references.
Ps: Usei como referência o relatório do Gartner de fevereiro/2009.
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