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Forrester Positions Metastorm as a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Business Process Analysis, EA Tools, and IT Planning, Q1 2009 (January 7, 2009)
Forrester has combined the Business Process Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, and IT Planning categories into one report, which features three Wave diagrams. Metastorm is positioned as a leader in all three of the Waves, demonstrating that Metastorm ProVision® is one of the most well-rounded, comprehensive software products in these markets.
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Metastorm Secures Leadership Position and Boasts Strongest Market Presence in the Forrester Wave: Human Centric BPM for Microsoft Platforms (December 19, 2007)
Metastorm is positioned as a leading vendor in Forrester’s Q4 2007 Wave for Human Centric BPM for Microsoft Platforms. The report says, "A long heritage and strong track record in BPM has given way to multiple acquisitions for this vendor. First CommerceQuest brought integration capabilities, and now Proforma is bringing Metastorm complete enterprise architecture (EA) and business process analysis (BPA) modeling to front-end its automation tools. We saw the product only weeks after this acquisition and the company was already able to easily import Proforma models into the execution environment. Look for further integration to allow Metastorm to be one of the first to take advantage of the many synergies between EA modeling and BPM - scenarios like immediately understanding the business impact of a downed server combined with the ability to reroute work to other servers."
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Metastorm Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools (November 12, 2009)
Metastorm is positioned as a Leader in the Enterprise Architecture Tools market for its Metastorm ProVision® product. Metastorm’s ability to deliver both EA and BPA in the same product is very appealing to buyers. In addition, "Metastorm ProVision has a long-standing reputation for ease of use relative to others in this market. Organizations desiring large deployments with average users should consider the importance of usability,” the report says.
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Metastorm Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Managed File Transfer (September 18, 2009)
Metastorm is positioned as a visionary in the Managed File Transfer (MFT) market for its Metastorm Integration Manager product. Metastorm’s ability to combine BPM and MFT together in an integrated suite is unique in the market. "The inclusion of world-class BPM technology with Metastorm’s MFT technology allows companies to truly compose complex processes that involve file transfer,” the report says.
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Metastorm Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites (February 18, 2009)
Business Process Management (BPM) is Metastorm’s heritage, and this report positions our company as one of the top BPMS vendors in the world. "The original business process management pure-play vendors have the longest history of model-driven process execution (as opposed to code-based execution), which Gartner thinks is the best way to enable business and IT professionals to manage and change processes collaboratively, especially in a volatile business environment," the report says.
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OVUM Butler Group

Decision Matrix: Selecting a BPM Vendor (February 2010)
Metastorm is positioned in the Shortlist category in Ovum’s Decision Matrix report, which evaluates BPM vendors based on a quantitative assessment of their market impact, end-user sentiment, and technology offering, and places them in one of three categories – explore, consider, or shortlist. According to the report, Metastorm is at “the very summit of the BPM competitive landscape.”
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Technology Audit on Metastorm BPM Version 9 (February 2010)
This OVUM Butler Technology Audit reviews the Metastorm BPM Version 9 suite and its extended capabilities for Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Analysis and Integration. The audit states “Processes do not exist in isolation – either between other processes or with other infrastructure elements, and having the ability to manage the whole ecosystem is an important consideration as it makes change management much easier and more strategic.From a pure BPM point of view, Metastorm has implemented a strong solution with a rich set of functionality, and as with solutions of this type bringing more power to the business user whilst understanding that BPM is also a technology solution and addressing the needs of those users as well.”
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Technology Audit on ICCM’s e-Service Desk built on Metastorm BPM (December 2009)
This OVUM Butler Technology Audit reviews the ICCM e-Service Desk products that are built on Metastorm BPM. The audit states “ICCM is somewhat unique in the ITSM product landscape in that it leverages the capabilities and functionality of business process management (BPM) (using the Metastorm BPM product) to deliver a robust yet flexible solution to support ITSM process delivery. Its software portfolio covers all of the key ITIL processes” and, in Ovum’s opinion, “ICCM Solutions has differentiated itself within the ITSM marketplace. Ignoring the traditional application development-driven approach of many vendors, ICCM leverages the BPM capabilities of Metastorm BPM to provide a powerful yet easy-to-use ITSM tool.”
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