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IBM Blueworks Live positioned as lightweight SaaS BPM (CMSWiRE)

IBM announced the release of Blueworks Live, a platform for creating lightweight BPM applications on the cloud. According to this article, Blueworks Live will allow for more agile and social BPM. According to a similar report from ZDNet, Blueworks Live is a precursor to a larger SaaS BPM offering built around software acquired when IBM purchased Austin, Texas, based BPM provider Lombardi. IBM partner Hubspan foresees Blueworks playing an important role in future B2B integration projections.

Scheduling SaaS tool provider opens up to third party developers (Press Release)

TimeTrade Systems, a provider of online scheduling SaaS, announced today a new open API that allows users to integrate TimeTrade’s product with corporate CRM systems. The API also allows system developers to create custom applications that fit user-specific needs.

Law firm management SaaS adds Google Apps integration (Press Release)

Legal practice management tool provider Clio today announced integration with Google Apps. The integration includes synchronization with Google Calendar and contact lists as well as single sign-on. Clio specifically targets small law practices and independent practitioners with limited IT resources relative to larger firms.

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Business Process Management (BPM) has been a target for SaaS toolmakers for several years, but SaaS BPM is still on the road to maturity. Integration of SaaS BPM continues to be a challenge.

Business Process Management (BPM) can be defined as the strategies and technologies used to streamline and optimize the steps taken to achieve a goal. BPM is not the process itself, but the act of improving that process. BPM technologies are most often associated with the automation of workflow: they make sure that a document or task passes from one person to the next in the proper order, and change that order as business needs dictate.

When the SaaS model is applied to BPM, integration can become a unique challenge. Read more… »