Workflow market

smriti.agrawal.19409 · May 30, 2005, 1:26pm

Hi,
I have just started working on wM workflow and was just curious to know how is the market of workflow presently. Meaning to say… about how many organisations are using this product? and If a company chooses this product over other workflows what is the reason behind it?

gupta_r.17495 · May 30, 2005, 8:22pm

Smriti,

WM Workflow(BPM) and any work flow product is always on demand…
especially Manufacturing,Financial,Insurance sectors mostly uses this product for PO/Order processing(Internal/External ERP interfaces),Project Task escalation,Credit Accept/Rejects,Claims,reconciliation etc…above functionalities are the reason behind it.

Bottom line is thorough knowledge/understanding business interfaces is necessary layer in the workflow integration world.

HTH,
RMG.

smriti.agrawal.19409 · May 31, 2005, 8:58am

Hey RMG,
Thanx, I did get the business scenario for workflow implementation. But, there are quite a few workflow tools available in market at present, what makes wM workflow different from others.
My concern is if I have to convince a client on using this product what would be the features for which wM WF should be chosen.

Regards,
Smriti

wMusers.Com1 · May 31, 2005, 6:38pm

Smriti,

One of the biggest challenges many workflow vendors have is building integration and data transformation capabilities that are enterprise-class and highly scalable.

webMethods workflow will compare favorably in terms of pure workflow features with the best in class offerings out there, but will excel when compared with against the integration capabilities of those tools.

If a customer has already invested (wisely, I might add) in webMethods integration tools, chosing the WM workflow product further leverages that investment by giving a very good workflow product world class integration capabilities.

Also, when combined with the business process modeling / management capabilities of WM Modeler, Monitor and now Optimize, you’ve got the foundation for a truly state of the market process automation and management architecture.

Now you could do this by integrating WM with another workflow tool, but you won’t get as much bang for your buck in terms of being able to view, manage and optimize business processes which include human interaction workflows.

Mark

wMusers.Com1 · May 31, 2005, 7:13pm

BTW, there is a huge body of process-related information, data models and XML standards available from BPMI and WfMC. These two groups have a lot of overlap and have recently begun discussing a merger.

Mark

[b]quote:[/b]
About BPMI.org
BPMI.org (the Business Process Management Initiative) is a non-profit corporation that aims to empower companies of all sizes, across all industries, to develop and operate business processes that span multiple applications and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. The Initiative’s core objective is to promote and develop open, complete and royalty free xml-based standards that support and enable Business Process Management (BPM) in industry. BPMI.org embraces existing standards where appropriate, working with complementary standards bodies such as the OMG, WfMC and OASIS. In areas where standards are lacking, BPMI.org focuses on standards development to support the entire lifecycle of business process
management—from process design, through deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization.

About the Workflow Management Coalition
The WfMC, founded in August 1993, is a non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors, users, analysts and university/research groups. The Coalition’s mission is to promote
and develop the use of workflow through the establishment of standards for software terminology, interoperability and connectivity between workflow products. Comprising over 300 members worldwide, the Coalition is the primary standards body for this significant software market. The creation of the WfMC Standards Reference Model has proved its importance in other areas of technology, most notably the ISO Seven Layer reference model for computer communications.<!-/quote-!>

smriti.agrawal.19409 · June 6, 2005, 12:55pm

Thanks Mark!!
That helps a lot!!

rtenkani.35389 · June 30, 2005, 7:26pm

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Jon_Baumgardner · August 25, 2005, 1:53am

I have no idea how many customers have workflow but you could look at the 175 threads in wmUsers about wrokflow and count 5 people contributed to each and 3 were new to this thread (on average) and assume that (175 times 3) 500+ customers have workflow. There are probably others and some use it more than others of course.

Another way might be to see how many companies are looking for webMethods workflow skills in Monster (49) or hotjobs (59) or Dice (27)
and conclude that it is about time to get as much experience with workflow as you can so you can get your next project lined up pretty easily.