SAP announced on Wednesday that it is acquiring privately-held Hyderabad, India based Yasu Technologies, which creates business rules management software.
Yasu’s flagship product is the QuickRules BRMS, launched in early 2000. The deal is designed to boost SAP’s business process management (BPM) offerings and will be tucked into SAP NetWeaver, which channels the ebb and flow of data to software applications via SAP’s back-end middleware.
“The BPM industry is awash in hype” declares Kevin Spurway, warning that vendor hype has created market confusion about the proper role of IT with respect to BPM.
I could not help but smile sadly and nod my head at this… IT unfortunately perceive BPM as a threat rather than the powerful tool that it is can be.
What’s beyond the hype, and how is the industry addressing this dangerous situation, and help clear the smoke? Kevin identifies 3 intersting developments – “Standards“, “Free Modelers“ & “Communities and Social Network-based Approaches“.
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