Interesting acquisition in the BPM market
For the new year, IBM decided to make a present for itself - bought Lombardi . This name says little to the domestic user, but this small company is really a tidbit on the market of process management solutions. Lombardi makes mid-level BPM systems that are quite functional and very easy to use. If it were not for the crisis, Lombardi would most likely go through an IPO or at least remain independent, at least in the summer President Lombardi wrote very confidently about their coolness in his blog (and this is reasonable from a product point of view).
For EMEA and, in particular, Russia, in a certain sense, it’s good that IBM made such a purchase - Lombardi itself hasn’t had any chance today to expand its European presence, and with IBM’s resources it’s possible to bring new products to Russian customers quickly. Lombardi will become part of the WebSphere division, which already has several BPM products, with IBM-specific mega-enterprise specifics and usually deployed from top to bottom. Lombardi, on the other hand, proposes the development of departmental processes with a consequent access to higher-level integration. In principle, if you manage to properly embed a new acquisition in WebSphere, everyone will benefit from it. For example, Lombardi, in addition to the Blueprint process modeling tool, has a good product for executing Teamworks processes, focused on personnel; IBM has a strong system-oriented WebSphere Process Server offering, in which they have long been trying to add a “human” dimension. According to the mind, it makes sense to integrate Teamworks into WPS. True, IBM quite often keeps purchased products “independent”, even if their functionality overlaps strongly. But even if Blueprint and Teamworks are sold separately from other WebSphere products, the customer is again not harmful, but only good - IBM is going to position them as entry-level solutions, which means they will be inexpensive (and taking into account what speed IBM transfers everything to the cloud, maybe even pennies). And in use they are really very comfortable. So who needs high-quality and not overbearing BPM - after six months you can start to look closely.
For EMEA and, in particular, Russia, in a certain sense, it’s good that IBM made such a purchase - Lombardi itself hasn’t had any chance today to expand its European presence, and with IBM’s resources it’s possible to bring new products to Russian customers quickly. Lombardi will become part of the WebSphere division, which already has several BPM products, with IBM-specific mega-enterprise specifics and usually deployed from top to bottom. Lombardi, on the other hand, proposes the development of departmental processes with a consequent access to higher-level integration. In principle, if you manage to properly embed a new acquisition in WebSphere, everyone will benefit from it. For example, Lombardi, in addition to the Blueprint process modeling tool, has a good product for executing Teamworks processes, focused on personnel; IBM has a strong system-oriented WebSphere Process Server offering, in which they have long been trying to add a “human” dimension. According to the mind, it makes sense to integrate Teamworks into WPS. True, IBM quite often keeps purchased products “independent”, even if their functionality overlaps strongly. But even if Blueprint and Teamworks are sold separately from other WebSphere products, the customer is again not harmful, but only good - IBM is going to position them as entry-level solutions, which means they will be inexpensive (and taking into account what speed IBM transfers everything to the cloud, maybe even pennies). And in use they are really very comfortable. So who needs high-quality and not overbearing BPM - after six months you can start to look closely.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/78571/
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