Integrated BPM Suite from IBM? I am not quite sold yet...

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Jesper Joergensen's Blog | April 14, 2008   8:06 PM | Comments (0)

IBM has been marketing their plethora of BPM related products as one integrated BPM Suite for some time. With the acquisition of FileNet it became even more difficult to select which product to get from IBM for BPM.

Now they've announced that they're really getting serious about integrating these components. Bruce Silver has offered his perspective on this (and followed up with more). From a competitor's perspective this is a really interesting announcement because on one side it acknowledges the importance of an integrated BPMS (such as AquaLogic BPM) and on the other side it admits that IBM does not have this yet.

Now if they could only catch up quickly, it shouldn't be such a big deal right?

Right, but it's not going to be easy for IBM to bring all those pieces together. We're talking dozens of products, home-grown and acquired, built on different architectures for different use-cases and now owned by different product groups, marketed under different brands and maybe even sold by different sales teams. There are overlaps and conflicts of interests all the way up and down the stack from engineering to sales, not to mention the headache of supporting existing customers. They have to align at least 4-5 executives and their organizations to make this happen and that's a hard thing to do in any company.

I'll be looking forward to seeing some execution on this.

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