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Hello All,

Im doing a little research into BPM systems.  We are a process-centric business, unfortunatly our in-house process management software is much in need of an overhaul.  I have 3 of my experienced programmers working full-time on a new system, but after months of intense planning, we are just now starting to build it, which means we are months away from completion.

So, In the mean time I’m spending some of my time to further research current solutions that are out there and thought it would be a good idea to ask you guys for any experiences you may have had.

The problem with the BPM software solutions that are out there is that it they tend to be fairly expensive, and unless you have an experienced programming team and a good understanding of process management, it can be very tough and expensive to build your own system. Yet, process management is one of those things that almost every business can benefit from. 

We are building our software to be very flexible and platform independent.  One plan is to offer the software to other small to medium size businesses on a per user web based service model.

We are also looking for partnerships with other companies to share some of the cost of development.  We have spent nearly 6 months blueprinting the software out and have included just abut every feature imaginable, along with making it extremly flexible and easy to maintain.  Flexibility is the key to any process management software.  It is critical to be able to change or build new processes very quickly, and the user interfaces have to be very robust and easily configurable.  It is also important that it be platform independent and able to connect to any data source; having access to all of your data (customer, inventory, accounting, billing, sales, fulfillment, etc) is the key to any BPM system.

If there are any of you interested in this sort of system, I would love to speak about ways we can share some of the cost in developing it in exchange for access to use the program.  The way I see it, if a few of us pool together, we can get it built faster, with more features and with less cost.  I am also entertaining the idea of taking on investors.

Here are some of the solutions currently available.  For those of you with an IT background you will notice that most of them are built with open standards, which is exactly what we are striving for.

http://www.fuego.com/product_fact.html

http://www.jboss.com/products/jbpm (opensource, java, j2ee)

http://www.adeptia.com/ (http://www.adeptia.com/data_integration/data_integration.html)

http://www.global360.com/solutions/bpm/

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/04/40NNbluecode_1.html

http://www.seagullsoftware.com/products/bpm.html?gclid=CIPawOvJ4oECFQLISAodzD4WrA