Metastorm BPM is the flagship product of Metastorm. It is the 'BPM'
part of their BPM Suite, the execution engine.
It started out many years ago as an Oracle product, then became a
Windows 'workflow' tool named 'e-work'. The addition of a web
client, at the time, was the first in its field, and set the standard
for others to follow. Metastorm liked it so much, they 'bought the
company' that created it, Sysgenics.
Since then it has become 'Metastorm BPM' to reflect its place in a
suite of programs offered by Metastorm as a fully rounded BPM
Solution.
This next incarnation will be version 9 (skipping a number to allow
all products to be aligned). This version has been quite a while in
the making. We think, from what we have seen of it, that it is well
worth the wait. It is a paradigm shift for the product that will give
us most of what we have ever wanted from it. It will also set a bold
standard for the future as a powerful product deeply embedded in
the corporate Microsoft Architecture.
1. Introduction
