Gartner has published a new review of Microsoft's BPM strategy and our related partner BPMS products which make up the Microsoft Process Platform. This is the first time Gartner has included Microsoft in one of their BPMS reviews and made several key observations about our strategy: The Microsoft...

This morning Microsoft announced the availability of the sixth edition of BizTalk Server, BizTalk Server 2009 . This release includes support in four major areas; 1) support for mobile RFID devices, 2) support of the most current Windows technology (including WinSrvr2008, SQL2008, VS2008, VSTS2008 &...

blackpoint is designed to allow business users and non-developers to quickly build workflow solutions and process-driven applications within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. It can be used to create new SharePoint workflows that span libraries, sites, InfoPath...

Four members of the Microsoft Business Process Alliance were positioned in the Leaders or Visionaries Quadrants for the new BPMS Magic Quadrant released by Gartner on February 18th. Global 360 and Metastorm , two of the acknowledged leaders in BPMS software and the largest .NET-based providers were well...

Microsoft UK is hosting their third annual SOA and BP Conference on 26 November on the Microsoft Campus in Thames Valley Park at Reading from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. This year's keynote speaker is Massimo Pezzini, a Gartner Fellow, who will be reviewing Gartner's current view of the SOA and BPM landscape...

Tuesday 11 November 13:30 -18:15 AC Barcelona Hotel, 3 rd Floor (Attached to the CCIB) The Microsoft Business Process Alliance will be sponsoring a briefing on Microsoft’s Business Process Management (BPM) strategy, discussing how we partner with ISVs to build high value solutions, what developers...

A new Beta release of K2 blackpoint is now available. This is the latest release of K2's new tool for building process driven applications and workflow solutions with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server and Windows Sharepoint Services. The K2 blackpoint beta 2 is feature-complete and offers drag-and...

The Microsoft Office team has developed two new Silverlight videos covering our vision for BPM and the value it can bring to users for the new BPM section on microsoft.com . The first video covers Microsoft's vision of driving mainstream adoption of BPM through a broadly available process platform, easy...

Microsoft has announced that the release of BizTalk server previously referred to as "BizTalk Server 2006 R3" has been upgraded to a full release to "BizTalk Server 2009". New features for this release fall into four areas: B2B Integration - mobile RFID support, enhanced RFID device support, improved...

BPA member Ascentn was recently mentioned in a new report from Gartner on model-driven compostion of business processes. The report provides an interesting discussion of three different types of process models; parametric models, configuration models and explicit process models. Ascentn was the only...

An interesting item that slipped past our always vigilant PR trackers several months ago was a mention of PNMSoft and BizTalk by Bill Gates in his keynote at the Office System Developers Conference. He described some work that PNMSoft (a Business Process Alliance member) had done using their workflow...

QuickLearn is offering a series of 2-day, expert level BizTalk classes focused on the Business Rules Engine (BRE), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), RFID and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) starting in July in Redmond. Classes in the Expert Series are available to be delivered privately beginning in...

K2®, a division of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., announced the upcoming availability of K2 blackpoint™ — low-cost software that allows users to quickly build workflow solutions and process-driven applications within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0....

BPA member Metastorm Inc. today announced release of an updated version (7.6) of their Metastorm BPM Software Suite. Key features of the new release include extended support for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, business activity monitoring (BAM) on Windows Vista, new user-configurable reporting...