BPM World Expanding

Dennis Callaghan - eWEEK, writes BPM World Expanding

According to him enterprise application software developers are painting a future that will consist mostly of business process management components rather than the packaged applications of today.

He also says "such a world would allow enterprises more flexibility in customizing and integrating applications, particularly in adding collaboration and workflow capabilities to those applications".

A recent study by Forrester Research Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., found nearly 90 percent of business users surveyed rated their enterprise applications poor on managing processes across functions and adapting to users' business processes. Also, more than 70 percent of IT administrators rated their applications as unable to support business change.

This is in line with what was found in the recent portal study, where Forrester predicted that all the future Enterprise portals would be process portals rather than content or application portal.