This document discusses business process management tools including: 1) Business process analysis (BPA) tools and business process modelling systems (BPMS) for modelling workflows. 2) Proprietary workflow management systems (WfMS) and business process management systems (BPMS) for executing workflows. 3) Open source execution tools for workflows including jBPM, OpenWFE, and Enhydra Shark. The document references several Gartner reports and academic papers on evaluating and selecting business process management tools.

1. Business Process
Management -
Benchmark
Prof. Karim Baïna,
Alqualsadi Research Team
ENSIAS
Mohammed V - Souissi University
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2. BPM – Modelling Tools
BPA : Business Process Analysis
&
BPMS : Business Process Modelling Systems
[GARTNERa
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10]
Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis

3. BPM – proprietary Execution Tools
WfMS : Workflow Management Systems
&
BPMS : Business Process Management Systems
[GARTNERb
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10]
Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites

4. BPM – open source Execution Tools
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D09]
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5. References
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[GARTNERa10] Magic Quadrant for Business
Process Analysis Tools 2010, Gartner Group 2010
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[GARTNERb10] Magic Quadrant for Business
Process Management Suites, Gartner Group 2010
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[WOHED09] Petia Wohed, Nick Russell, Arthur H. M.
ter Hofstede, Birger Andersson, Wil M. P. van der
Aalst: Patterns-based evaluation of open source BPM
systems: The cases of jBPM, OpenWFE, and Enhydra
Shark. Information & Software Technology 51(8):
1187-1216 (2009)
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[BAÏNA07] Karim Baïna: WFESelector - A tool for
comparing and selecting workflow engines. ICEIS (1)
2007: 330-337 © K. Baïna 2010