Leading Analyst Firm Positions Oracle in Leaders Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites

By ORACLE
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Redwood Shores, Calif. – October 26, 2010

News Facts

Gartner, Inc. has named Oracle a Leader in its recent “Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2010.” (1)

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report positions vendors within a particular quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute.
Gartner notes that “The BPMS market is poised to finally become a mainstream market” and “a trend we first observed in 2008 has continued into 2010: more organizations are adopting BPM as a discipline and scaling up their efforts to establish BPM as an enterprise program — not just apply its methods and technologies to one-off projects. Thus a market-leading BPMS must support BPM throughout the business process improvement life cycle.”
A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g (www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/index.html) , Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g (www.oracle.com/us/technologies/bpm/bpm-suite-078529.html) brings together the BPM capabilities from both Oracle and BEA to provide the industry’s most complete, open and unified Business Process Management (BPM) solution.
Oracle Business Process Management 11g supports all types of processes with a new unified process foundation, user-centric design and social BPM capabilities.

Supporting Quote

“A complete, open and unified business process management system is essential for empowering business users to take an active role in managing and executing business processes,” said David Shaffer, vice president, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware. “As the only BPM product in the industry that has a unified process foundation for processes that include systems, people and documents, Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g enables business and IT users to collaborate and engage in the management of core business processes that are critical to their organizations. We believe our placement in the Leaders Quadrant is recognition of Oracle’s vision and commitment to making it easier for organizations to adapt to change and simplify business process management.”

Supporting Resources

Gartner: “Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2010” (www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/oracle/article161/article161.html)
Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g (www.oracle.com/us/technologies/bpm/bpm-suite-078529.html)
Oracle Business Process Management Resource Kit (www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=6661656&Act=127&pcode=NAMK08065712MPP002)
Join the Oracle Fusion Middleware online communities: Blogs (blogs.oracle.com/bpm/) , Twitter (twitter.com/oraclebpm) , Facebook (www.facebook.com/pages/Oracle-BPM/109390899120810) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_VzvvuW-ZY)
Download free evaluation version of Oracle BPM Suite 11g (www.oracle.com/technology/products/soa/bpmsuite/collateral/downloads.html) . Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

(1) Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2010,” by Jim Sinur, Janelle Hill, October 18, 2010

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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