The Fraunhofer Institute has published a new study on current BPM tools. It analyzes how the various tools support the modeling of processes in BPMN and then they can bring to execution.

We examined eight different products:

• Cordys BOP
• ActiveVOS (Dr. Karb GmbH)
• Intalio | BPMS Works
• inubit BPM Suite
• itp Commerce Process Modeler
• MID Innovator
• Software AG webMethods
• Soreco Xpert.ivy

The study is for 120 € at the Fraunhofer Institute in http://www.dm.iao.fraunhofer.de/lit/studien/markt/bpm2010_inhalt.jsp available.

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The BPM Server is designed for "human-intensive processes", ie for processes with a high proportion of human interaction. The system consists of three components:

• BPM Designer
• BPM Server
• BPM Administrator

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