The Microsoft Business Process Alliance is comprised of a select group of ISV partners focusing on creating solutions that further enhance business process management (BPM) enablement on the Microsoft platform. Representing the top BPM solutions in the market, Business Process Alliance members have demonstrated an ability to simplify complex business processes into a manageable process life-cycle and deliver outstanding value to customers.
By building functionality and extending the features of the Microsoft platform, these partner solutions benefit end users by leveraging a customer's existing investments in Microsoft products to deliver BPM solutions that span functional areas such as workflow, business rules, document-centric processes, business activity monitoring, process modeling and optimization.
AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the SOA runtime governance authority. Its software system brings real-time visibility and control to services and applications at each stage of the SOA life cycle. AmberPoint utilizes a policy-based approach to governance to manage the health and well-being of SOA applications. It is also the runtime governance of choice for commercial organizations, federal agencies and software vendors alike. More than 100 customersincluding Best Buy, H&R Block, MedicAlert Foundation, Motorola and the U.S. Department of Defensehave chosen AmberPoint for its comprehensive capabilities, its non-invasive approach and its native support for both Microsoft .NET and Sun's Java.
Ascentn Corporation
Ascentn Corporation is a leading .NET BPMS ISV which provides SOA-aligned, pure .NET-based BPMS solutions to deliver business agility and manage an expanded spectrum of business processes. The Ascentn AgilePoint Suite provides an open, scalable and robust BPM and SOA platform that leverages and integrates with Microsoft products and technologies. AgilePoint delivers a full life-cycle BPM solution with an n-tier process architecture. Through reuse of IT assets as process descriptions, AgilePoint enables business managers to create, improve and execute end-to-end business automations that support both human workflow and automated processes and is free of rigid code generations that constrain the degree of run-time adaptability.
Fair Isaac Corporation
Fair Isaac Corporation makes decisions smarter. The company's solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management give businesses the power to automate more processes, and apply more intelligence to every customer interaction. Through increasing the precision, consistency and agility of their decisions, Fair Isaac clients worldwide increase sales, build customer value, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, reduce operational costs, meet changing compliance demands and enter new markets more profitably. Founded in 1956, Fair Isaac powers hundreds of billions of decisions a year in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, consumer branded goods, healthcare and the public sector.
Global 360, Inc.
Global 360 is a global leader in providing Business Process Management (BPM) and Optimization solutions for automating, measuring and improving resource-intensive business processes. G360 Enterprise, a leading BPM solution based on Microsoft's .Net framework, is recognized by analysts as the leading solution supporting optimization, simulation and performance management.
IDS-Scheer
Established in 1984 by Prof. August-Wilhelm Scheer, IDS Scheer is the market leader in BPM software and services for corporations and public organizations worldwide. With its unrivaled ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, the company offers an integrated, comprehensive solution portfolio for the strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes. Utilizing the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach, IDS Scheer consultants bridge the gap between corporate strategy, business processes, IT solutions and process controlling. Approximately 2,800 employees, in over 70 countries, serve the company's 6,000 customers.
ILOG, Inc.
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. ILOG Rules for .NET Business Rule Management System (BRMS) combined with Microsoft's Office, SOA/BPM, and development environments offer a powerful solution for automating policies within the enterprise. Rules for .NET enables business rules to be authored and maintained, where necessary, across the enterprise. Business users benefit from a short learning curve from easy-to-use Office software while developers leverage ILOG's BRMS functionality from the familiar VS development environment. The result reduces time-to-market and improves agility for enterprises requiring faster and smarter business policy change when compared to traditional architectures.
InRule Technology
InRule Technology is a leading provider of business rules technology designed and optimized for .NET. More than 60 enterprise, ISV and ASP clients use InRule to automate business logic without placing additional burden on IT. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, InRule was established in 2002 and is headquartered in Chicago. InRule enables development of applications that are more responsive to market conditions and revenue opportunities. InRule's Business Language Authoring lets users capture business intent, as well as author and verify complex decision logic, rules and calculations without the overhead of custom programming. The results: agile processes and reduced time-to-market.
Metastorm, Inc.
With a focus on improving processes for greater innovation, agility and governance, Metastorm leads the market in business process management (BPM) software and best practice methodologies for human and system-based processes. Going beyond the basics of modeling and automation, the Metastorm BPM® Suite supports the complete process life-cycle and is designed specifically to address complex processes that are unique to organizations. Metastorm's 1300+ global client base in manufacturing, retail, financial services, business services, healthcare and government are achieving rapid ROI and Enterprise Process Advantage® in customer service, supply chain operations, risk management and internal operations.
PNMSoft
PNMsoft, a global ISV and a Microsoft gold partner, develops and markets innovative BPM & Workflow software platforms and solutions. As a global company with hundreds of customers worldwide, PNMsoft operates its own offices and a network of partners in North America and EMEA. The company's product, SEQUENCE, is used to build, run and manage Workflows and BPM applications in a Web environment and is sold through channel partners to midsize and enterprise customers. PNMsoft offers a flexible business-users oriented platform for ISVs looking to OEM a BPM platform in their product, and software vendors offering vertical market solutions.
RuleBurst
RuleBurst provides a fully integrated suite that manages all of an organization's rules, regulations, risks and compliance needs. Customers use RuleBurst to automate decisions and prevent, detect and cure breaches of policy. This is particularly important when organizations are struggling to mitigate risk, prove compliance or make timely, accurate decisions in accordance with policy or legislation. RuleBurst models business content using plain English business language, using Microsoft Office Word, Excel and Visio. RuleBurst can analyze, test and visualize this content, and deploy executable rules to Microsoft's BPM platform.
SOA Software
SOA Software products provide a comprehensive closed-loop SOA governance solution. SOA Software's Service Manager and Workbench products extend Microsoft's Governance capabilities on both IIS and BizTalk platforms. The Workbench provides an integrated Service Management, Registry/Repository and Policy management solution, allowing customers to implement their end-to-end SOA Governance requirements. The solution integrates with BizTalk and provides full service lifecycle management along with features such as design-time compliance testing, service discovery via a UDDI v2/v3 interface, service provisioning, WS-S security and service monitoring regardless of protocol. SOA Software products process over 500 million mission critical transactions a month and are used by the largest Fortune 1000 corporations, including Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer.
SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc.
SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc. develops the award-winning K2.net 2003 enterprise workflow solution. K2.net 2003 is the leader in business process management for .NET through its enablement of rapid solution assembly to optimize interactions between people, systems and process. Customers derive significant value from their Microsoft investments by leveraging K2.net 2003 and its powerful, proven and seamless integration across a range of Microsoft products.