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Liferay, Inc. and Intalio, Inc. recently announced a new integration partnership. Together, the products allow employees to have a common interface to manage their daily workload. The portal enables a single integrated view of the user's calendar, email, task list and whatever other functions the employee or IT department includes. Intalio|BPMS offers a one-click, zero code means of designing and implementing business processes suitable for even the least technical of users. Under the new partnership, Intalio's Enterprise Edition offers an optional module, called Intalio|Portal, which gives users access to Intalio's Task Manager as an integrated portlet within a Liferay-powered portal framework. From there, users can make decisions to approve insurance policies, review expense reports, or input data on a loan request. http://www.liferay.com, http://www.intalio.com

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Lombardi announced that the Lombardi Blueprint Spring '08 release is live. Blueprint is an 'on-demand' process documentation tool that is used to collaboratively map an organization's business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities. Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), the Enterprise 2.0 application allows customers to immediately start discovering and documenting their processes without training and without having to download or install any software. Lombardi Blueprint provides multiple views for representing processes. The process mapping view is targeted towards business users who need to describe activities and responsibilities and want to identify potential problems. Blueprint also supports detailed workflow modeling using Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) for more sophisticated business analysts and process modelers throughout the organization. The documentation view provides wiki-like capabilities for documenting processes. Additionally, Blueprint serves as a central repository for all process information, automatically managing revision history, as well as rollback and audit trail information for every process. This latest release introduces a set of new diagramming innovations that decrease the time and complexity of building detailed process diagrams. Additionally, Lombardi's Spring '08 release of Blueprint has a new Microsoft Visio importer. Any Visio process drawing can now be imported into a Blueprint Professional Edition account. There are two different types of Blueprint Accounts available: a Free Edition and a Professional Edition.

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Intalio, Inc. announced Intalio|On Demand, an open source Business Process Management System delivered as a service. The subscription for the service starts at $1,500 for each dedicated server, and includes bandwidth, licenses, maintenance, and support. Users can receive a free 5-day evaluation. Intalio|On Demand essentially replicates the Intalio|BPMS On Premise version and includes the connectors for Salesforce.com as well as enterprise applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite and SAP. Running dedicated servers on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps ensures that Intalio|On Demand retains the highest level of security, reliability and availability possible. Using rPath as the software appliance on top of AWS increases application scalability to ensure that there is always capacity for whatever user demand is generated. Intalio|BPMS, in both On Demand and On Premise versions, supports over 100,000 different process models deployed on a single server, with over 100 million process instances running concurrently. A single server can also accommodate thousands of concurrent users. Intalio|On Demand is available by signing up at http://www.intalio.com/on-demand

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Intalio, Inc. announced support for the Business Process Modeling Notation version 1.1 (BPMN 1.1), which was recently ratified by the Object Management Group (OMG). BPMN 1.1 provides several benefits over the previous version, clearing up ambiguities between throwing and catching events, and adding new notation specifications, such as the Signal event. Signal increases efficiency and loose coupling by broadcasting the event to any event listener, either within the process or in another process. Previously, the process designer had to send a separate message or error event for each specific target. Now, that can be taken care of with a single call. Ambiguities with previous versions of BPMN are also cleaned up, thereby reducing the number of errors that could be coded into the process. The latest version of Intalio|Designer can be downloaded from the Intalio Community Website at http://bpms.intalio.com

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Intalio, Inc. announced an OEM agreement with Informatica Corporation. Informatica will embed Intalio technology into its data integration platform. The partnership builds a framework for a complete set of Business Process Management functionality. With options for a customer to rebrand the service to the end user, Intalio/BPMS can be incorporated into OEM applications, while maintaining a unified look and feel to its clients. OEM customers also receive full access to the source code. Intalio has also signed OEM partner agreements with OperMix, Diamelle, Gerelca, and Coghead. Intalio/BPMS will be available as a white label solution in Japanese in April. Other language support will be added throughout the year. Because OEMs are given the source code, they also have the option of localizing the product themselves. Intalio supports a variety of hardware platforms, operating systems, databases, and application servers. http://www.intalio.com/

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Intalio, Inc. announced a partnership with Alfresco Software, Inc. The integrated offering of Intalio|BPMS and Alfresco ECM allows users to manage advanced document-centric workflow processes and support the collaborative development of complex business processes. Document-centric workflow processes provide a way to automate business communications, allowing documents to be transmitted to the right people based on complex rules. The integrated solution also allows Business and IT to collaboratively document complex business processes, making it easier to understand business requirements and the rational behind new procedures. The Alfresco integration project was funded under the Demand Driven Development (D3) model introduced by Intalio in 2006. The idea behind D3 is to allow customers to steer Intalio's product development roadmap in specific directions, then participate in the overall development process through syndicated funding. Development is billed at cost, and sponsors receive credits toward the licensing of Intalio|BPMS Enterprise Edition equivalent to 50% of their participation in the D3 project. The Alfresco integration D3 project is currently being funded by three sponsors worldwide. http://www.intalio.com/, http://www.alfresco.com

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Oracle announced updates the Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to strengthen content security, and enhance their Enterprise Content Management platform. The enhancements improve organizations' ability to secure content by automating encryption of documents stored in Oracle Universal Content Management through a new integration with Oracle Information Rights Management. The integration: Protects documents and emails that users check in to Oracle Universal Content Management by sealing them with Advanced Encryption Standard and RSA cryptography; Helps prevent unauthorized access to electronic documents and emails - even if it they have been downloaded, emailed, copied or transferred outside the corporate network; Allows administrators to control access to electronic documents and emails by local and remote users at the individual and group level at any time; and Does not require user intervention or restrict legitimate access to and search of the encrypted information. Oracle also delivered several new features to Oracle Universal Content Management including: Folios, which enable grouping of multiple content items for distribution, retention control, workflow and automatic rendering into a single document or other formats; Support for BPEL-based (Business Process Execution Language) processes; Improved AJAX-based user interface; A new forms editor that enables business users to create and edit online forms; Integration with Oracle's AutoVue Enterprise Visualization, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher, and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search. http://www.oracle.com/

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Intalio, Inc. announced a new worldwide Partner Program to provide System Integrators (SI) with resources for implementing and integrating a complete Business Process Management System (BPMS) with their clients' existing infrastructure. The program offers three levels: Silver, Gold, and Platinum - depending on the needs of the SI. All partners receive technical and marketing support, discounts to training and consulting, and commissions. Currently, 19 System Integrators worldwide have signed up for the Intalio Partner Program, including Ancud (Germany), OpenSoft (Australia), Projeler (Brazil), and Wego (Italy). Intalio's BPMS Platform includes BPMN and BPEL industry standards; embeds a Document Management System (DMS); and integrates Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Portal, Workflow, Business Activity Monitors and a Business Rules Engine (BRE). Partners provide the resources to help manage these complex integration scenarios for the customer. Platinum partners receive leads based on their geographic territory. Both Gold and Platinum members have the rights to redistribute the binaries of Intalio applications. All partners also receive at least one dedicated support person, access to the Intalio Partner Portal, and automatic software updates. http://www.intalio.com/blog

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Colosa, a developer of business process management (BPM) software that enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to simplify workflow through the capture and automation of paper-based processes, announced the launch of its open source solution, ProcessMaker OSS version 1.0. ProcessMaker OSS is an AJAX enabled, web-based software tool that allows private and public organizations to automate document intensive, approval-based processes across systems including finance, HR and operations. It allows users across multiple sites to create and share workflows, customize forms, manage processes, and enhance reporting. ProcessMaker OSS v1.0 is published under the GNU Affero GPL v3 open source license, so the source code is accessible to all users and modifications that meet the licensing requirements are acceptable. The software is designed with a full service-orientated architecture (SOA) and Web Services interface allowing the software to directly connect with customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI), content management (CMS), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. ProcessMaker is an entirely web-based, AJAX-enabled application that is built on the open source LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. Users can design their own forms, documents and business rules in a modular environment within the suite. ISVs can integrate ProcessMaker with existing software to add workflow functionality. To support the new open source version of ProcessMaker, Colosa has modified the software to include features such as an interface design suitable for non-technical business owners that will facilitate communication within the open source community, including forums, wiki documentation, issue tracking, and blogs. Colosa's Enterprise version of ProcessMaker, ProcessMaker Enterprise, differs from the open source version in that it comes with Colosa direct support and some additional higher-end management functionality such as dashboards and reporting. ProcessMaker OSS is available for download at Sourceforge and both versions are available at http://www.processmaker.com, http://sourceforge.net/projects/processmaker/

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced an expansion of its WebSphere Portal software portfolio with the availability of two additional business-ready packages, called accelerators, that can be added to a customer's portal to drive online training projects and automate business processes. These two new accelerators provide training, development and education projects through an IBM Lotus Sametime Web conference, and also make it easier for customers to automate core business processes with easy entry and integration of data and electronic forms across numerous systems. The two accelerators add to the collection that IBM has released incrementally since April. These include: IBM Self-Service Accelerator for human resources tasks, IBM Dashboard Accelerator, IBM Collaboration Accelerator for team collaboration, IBM Content Accelerator for building and managing websites, and IBM Enterprise Suite Accelerator which supports multiple portal projects, including Web content management and electronic forms. Customers can purchase individual accelerators and snap them onto their existing WebSphere Portal environment, or they can purchase the entire solution together with WebSphere Portal. Learning Accelerator is available now for $36 per user. The IBM Business Process Accelerator consists of IBM WebSphere Portal Server and IBM Lotus Forms Server. Those products are available now at $515 per value unit and $400 per value unit, respectively. http://www.ibm.com

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Hyland Software Inc. announced the release of version 7 of its OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software suite. OnBase 7 introduces process modeling and business activity monitoring (BAM) capabilities to help organizations model, monitor and continuously improve document-driven business processes. The new release features the ability to search the OnBase repository using Microsoft Office SharePoint Search as well as several new content-enabled vertical applications for hospitals, law enforcement agencies and universities. The Business Process Modeling tool provides graphical modeling capabilities that allow process managers to optimally design a document-centric process. In addition, it enables managers to simulate process activity with "what-if" scenarios that identify potential bottlenecks. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) portlets deliver real-time, dashboard views into the performance of document-driven business processes and allow process owners to identify and correct problem areas such as work overloading, stagnating work and incomplete transactions. OnBase BAM Portlets can be extended to enterprise portals built with Microsoft SharePoint and/or IBM Websphere. The OnBase Integration for Microsoft Search enables OnBase-managed content to be indexed and searched directly using Microsoft Office SharePoint Search. This integration benefits employees who have the need to conduct authorized searches for content across both SharePoint and OnBase repositories. The Integration for Microsoft Search provides search results in a single list sorted by relevance regardless of whether the content resides in Microsoft SharePoint or the OnBase repository. http://www.onbase.com/

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Oracle Announced Updates to their Content Management Solutions, including new releases of imaging and process management and information rights management software that extend the integration of Stellent technology. Oracle Imaging and Process Management 10g Release 3 delivers new certification with Oracle BPEL Process Manager; and broader certification with Oracle Applications including Oracle Financial Management, Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management, Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne; and third-party applications such as SAP ArchiveLink. New features in Oracle Imaging and Process Management 10g Release 3 include a customizable, user-friendly web interface; improved performance through streamlined management of storage devices; and optimized load balancing. Oracle Information Rights Management 10g Release 3 includes a new web services API, updated support for Adobe Acrobat, PDF watermarking and AES 256-bit encryption. Oracle Imaging and Process Management 10g Release 3 is priced at $50,000 per processor or $1000 per named user plus. Oracle Information Rights Management 10g Release 3 is priced at $500 per named user plus. Oracle Imaging and Process Management 10g Release 3 and Oracle Information Rights Management 10g Release 3, components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, are now generally available. http://www.oracle.com

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Open Text Content Services allow information workers to manage and exploit all content types in a unified way at three levels: At the desktop, facilitating access and interaction to all content through customizable business views from within desktop applications, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Explorer and Microsoft Outlook; in business processes to facilitate content flows which leads to improved productivity and process efficiency; and for archiving and records management to consistently manage retention and compliance rules across all business content, providing a single trusted repository. The new content services form the basis for Open Text's content management framework that takes a repository-agnostic approach to ECM. The new capabilities are exposed as Web Services, so that customers and partners can integrate and extend their use of the ECM technology within their organizations. The new services include: Open Text Enterprise Connect - a new user interface that serves dynamic, personalized content in context from within a user's choice of desktop application, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Explorer and Microsoft Outlook; Open Text Enterprise Process Services - provides BPM enterprise process services which allow information workers to automate and manage the flow of business content both within and across departments; and Open Text Enterprise Library Services - provide the foundation for a single, trusted repository that delivers integrated records management, metadata management, archive and search capabilities for all business content in an organization including content stored in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server sites, SAP applications, file systems, email and Open Text content repositories. With Enterprise Library Services, content can be managed, archived and stored consistently across the entire organization. http://www.opentext.com

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Bluespring Software announced the release of BPM Suite – SharePoint Edition. BPM Suite – SharePoint Edition is designed for businesses looking to deploy SharePoint in an environment with complex process or workflow needs. BPM Suite – SharePoint Edition comes pre-packaged with SharePoint, SQL Server and Office 2007 licenses to get started. By purchasing the unified solution set, customers will enjoy a 20% discount on all of the Microsoft and Bluespring products included in the bundle. BPM Suite – SharePoint Edition brings the following complex workflow capabilities to SharePoint. Rapid Process Deployment – Design processes in a “zero code” environment and deploy them with the push of a button. Graphical Process Monitoring – Visually track the progress of processes in-flight. Process Agility – Modify in-flight processes by stopping, changing & restarting processes from any point in the process. Interoperability – Configure processes that span not only SharePoint, but other disparate systems and desktops across the enterprise. Data Repurposing – Dynamically create Office documents with data captured throughout the process to present the right information to the right people at the right time in the right format. http://www.bluespringsoftware.com/

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Intalio, Inc. announced the GA release of Intalio|BPMS 5.0, the Open Source BPM Suite. Intalio|BPMS supports the BPMN, BPEL 2.0, and BPEL4People set of industry standards for BPM. Release 5.0 for Intalio|BPMS is the culmination of 18 months of research and development, during which the BPMN modeler has been re-written from the ground up in order to support the upcoming BPMN 2.0 specification, the BPEL runtime optimized to support over 100,000 process models and 250,000,000 process instances deployed on a single server, and the workflow framework extended to support the emerging BPEL4People standard. Intalio|BPMS 5.0 also provides better support for process simulation, business rules management, and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). Intalio|BPMS 5.0 is built on top of the Apache ODE BPEL engine that was contributed by Intalio and promoted as a top level project by the Apache Software Foundation last month, and the Eclipse STP BPMN modeler that has been integrated into the main Eclipse release earlier this year. This release has been integrated with several other commercial open source offerings, including the Alfresco Content Management System (CMS), the Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the Liferay Portal, and the OpenLexicon Business Rule Engine (BRE). It also embeds the Apache ServiceMix Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for which Intalio now provides commercial support. Intalio|BPMS 5.0 is available for download at http://bpms.intalio.com/

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Intalio, Inc. announced that its open-source BPEL process engine named Orchestration Director Engine (ODE) has recently graduated from the Apache incubator to a Top Level Project. ODE was contributed by Intalio to the Apache Software Foundation in July 2006, following Intalio's acquisition of FiveSight Technologies. Intalio|Server is built on top of the ODE engine. ODE is the an open-source BPEL engine currently available under a liberal open-source license and supports all versions of the BPEL specification (1.0, 1.1, and 2.0). Intalio|Server is capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of different process models deployed on the same server, and hundreds of millions of process instances running concurrently on a single CPU. The ODE engine is now part of the Apache Software Foundation's collection of enterprise-class servers, among which is the Apache HTTP server. ODE version 1.1 is available for download from http://ode.apache.org/, http://www.intalio.com

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BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BEAS) announced the general availability of BEA AquaLogic BPM 6.0. The new release introduces improved ad-hoc collaboration and business intelligence capabilities that can help business participants share knowledge, coordinate business activities more effectively, and conduct real-time process simulations to help optimize process outcomes. It is also designed to provide IT and developers a more powerful process application platform by offering support for Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), XML Process Definition Language (XPDL 2.0) and the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL 2.0). For developers, BEA AquaLogic BPM 6.0 introduces a new Eclipse-based development environment. An updated user experience framework within BEA AquaLogic BPM 6.0 called WorkSpace Extensions is designed to provide support for a variety of end-user experiences, helping participants engage in process activities through their tool of choice, including enterprise portals, stand-alone process workspaces, email clients and RSS readers. BEA AquaLogic Business Process Management 6.0 is now generally available and downloadable. http://www.bea.com/

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ClearStory Systems, Inc., announced the newest release of its digital asset management system, ActiveMedia with Workflow Automation. Built on an enterprise-class, commercial-grade business process management (BPM) engine, ActiveMedia with Workflow Automation is able to automate processes at every point in the digital media supply chain, extending digital media management into a broader enterprise workflow. ActiveMedia with Workflow Automation extends the capability and value of ClearStory's ActiveMedia DAM solution beyond traditional transformation, cataloging and repository services, to manage digital media projects, creative workflow, review and approval; and automate system events, asset management functions, and email notification. It extends to users outside the system such as legal teams approving projects, printers who require automatic asset delivery upon completion, web content management and other enterprise applications. ActiveMedia with Workflow Automation will be available in August. http://www.clearstorysystems.com

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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) introduced Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (ES). LiveCycle ES integrates the capabilities of Adobe Flex and PDF technologies, while leveraging the reach of Flash Player and Adobe Reader to enable “customer engagement” applications that connect people inside and outside organizations to internal information and processes. LiveCycle ES includes solution components to build, manage and optimize business critical customer-facing processes. Organizations can use wizard-like Form Guides and Flash-based graphics to change the way users interact with the process of providing, or receiving information online. Once data is captured, LiveCycle ES automates the processing of that data, including integration with rules engines, data stores, and Web services. LiveCycle ES also provides customers with enhanced data output capabilities such as interactive dashboards and dynamic, high-volume print solutions. Additionally, LiveCycle ES offers rights management, document certification, and digital signatures capabilities to help organizations protect sensitive information. Adobe will make LiveCycle ES available in two editions, LiveCycle ES Business Transformation Edition and LiveCycle ES Data Capture Edition, giving customers the option of purchasing a base system to which they can add solution components, or purchasing several of the solution components in one package with a single price. The LiveCycle Business Transformation Edition includes the following solution components: Data Capture Edition, Process Management, Digital Signatures, Rights management, and Output. The LiveCycle Data Capture Edition (base) includes Forms, Data Services, Barcoded Forms, and Reader Extensions solution components. Both editions are expected to be available in July. http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle

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