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Perhaps you may have to elaborate a bit more like he did to convince us?
This is an interesting and important topic; thanks for bringing it up...
The pendulum is swinging from "buy" to "assemble", which is a bit different than "build". The availability of many enterprise capabilities via services allows these to be assembled into composite applications using the orchestration capabilities of a BPMS, while adding on human interactivity, process optimization and other features that are expected of BPM.
We are looking at the Selcian BPMS product. Has anyone used it ? When we compared it against Ultimas, K2 and Metastrom we were quite impressed with its feature. Mainly the fact that since its purely based on a .NET 2.0 platform, it was very easy to integrate it with other .NET platform products. We are very close to signing a deal with them, but they being a new company I am interesed in any feedback.