BPMS Product Short List Recommendation

Consultant

Dr Bruce Silver

Offering Duration:  30 days

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Offering Description:
Based on client’s business and technical requirements (possibly part of draft RFP) for a BPM Suite procurement, recommend a short list of 3-4 products for final selection.

Offering Outline:

1. Based on requirements document, Consultant creates set of high-level product characteristics for product selection.  Client review/revise as necessary.
2. Client rank orders specific requirements in requirements document, editing the list if necessary.
3. Consultant evaluates up to 8 BPMS offerings and scores them using the general characteristics and ranked specific requirements.  Fixed price assumes the 8 are among those evaluated in the BPMS Report series, which include: BEA, IBM, Lombardi, Savvion, Pegasystems, Global 360, EMC Documentum, Cordys, Vitria, and Adobe.  Beginning Q1 2007 list will also include Appian, Tibco, webMethods, perhaps others.  Other products can be added to the list, but may require additional charge (TBD).
4. Consultant provides recommended short list of 3-4 products, with detailed justification.  Deliverable is a PowerPoint presentation plus Excel scoresheet.

This engagement can be performed entirely remotely, i.e. via teleconference/Webex and email, or optionally include face-to-face kickoff and presentation of recommendations.

Offering Objectives:
Rather than issue RFP to and evaluate responses from a long list of BPMS providers, it is more effective to develop a short list of products that generally match the requirements, prior to dealing directly with the vendors in formal RFP, proof of concept, due diligence, etc.  Using the 2006/2007 BPMS Report series, which contains a good knowledge of the features and comparative strengths of most leading BPMS offerings, the consultant can provide the short list recommendation cost-effectively.

Instructor Biography:
Dr Silver is an independent industry analyst and consultant specializing in BPM tools and technology.  He provides licensable and customizable training on Process Modeling With BPMN.  In addition, he provides extensive reports and commentary on BPM Suites, including the 2007 BPMS Report series available on the BPM Institute website, and the BPMS Watch blog (www.brsilver.com/wordpress).  In addition, he writes the monthly BPMS Watch column on bpminstitute.org and the Change Agent column for Intelligent Enterprise magazine. He was formerly vice president and service director at BIS Strategic Decisions, which became Giga Information Group (now part of Forrester Research).

Target Audience:

• A client that has completed an acceptable requirements document.
• Assumes client can provide requirement ranking in timely fashion, as described above.  This service does not provide that information-gathering.

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