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Build vs. Buy

All of the data I get from our clients, our annual BPM Pulse survey, and conversations with BPM vendors seems to indicate a continuing demand for pre-built applications in the BPM space. There is a sizeable group that likes to see the application vendor also provide a set of BI tools to customize and expand that application's capabilities. The data shows a shrinking minority looking to reinvent the wheel and build BPM solutions themselves. However, I just read this article by a former Gartner analyst that basically says all of my data is wrong. In the enterprise application space (where BPM falls) he claims that the pendulum is swinging back from 'buy' to 'build'. I don't 'buy' it (pardon the bad pun). What are you seeing?

  Posted by Craig Schiff on May 31, 2006 10:08 AM |

Comments

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...

Posted by: ZenOfBI | May 31, 2006 11:16 AM

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.

Posted by: Sandy Kemsley | June 1, 2006 10:39 AM

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.

Posted by: Jeremy | June 9, 2006 12:55 AM

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