BPM Middleware, 2006 Review and 2007 Lookahead

This complete review of 2006 developments and likely 2007 events and trends in the BPM middleware market is available for purchase. Below is an abstract of this 30-plus-page analysis, here is a sample of the research, and details about how to order are here.

 Abstract:

This Information Technology (IT) Investment Research report about the business process management (BPM) middleware market and its participants employs the standard IT Investment Research public-information-only methodology to answer such questions as:
• How did the leading BPM middleware suppliers do in 2006 in terms of absolute growth and in contrast to each other as compared to high-teens-percentage average market growth?
• What winning attributes do the suppliers’ BPM middleware products offer in terms of functionality and underlying infrastructure software?
• What are the leading suppliers’ specific chances of success in the $2 billion BPM middleware market in the short and long term?
• What competitive forces are at work in the BPM middleware market segment? For example:

o Can the suppliers of application middleware and underlying infrastructure software that lead today continue to dominate the BPM middleware market?
o Will new products or even services less dependent on discrete BPM middleware products, likely to be industry or function specific, better meet tomorrow's user needs?
o Will BPM middleware supplant ERP (or vice versa), or will next-generation BPM middleware be subsumed by the infrastructure software on which it depends?