Workflow Comparative Study 2001
Workflow Comparative Study 2001
Paris, France: Thursday, November 30, 2000
: Workflow & Groupware Strategies (W&GS) announces the publication of the 2001 edition of the highly acclaimed Workflow Comparative Study. It includes a competitive analysis of 13 workflow products developed by Eastman Software, FileNet, Handysoft, IBM, JetForm, TIBCO Software, Software Ley, SER, Staffware, TeamWARE Group, and W4.The Workflow Comparative Study is the only in depth and technical comparative analysis of workflow products available worldwide. The target audience includes IT Directors and Chief Architects, Workflow consultants and analysts, and Workflow Vendors and VARs, Product Marketing and IT Sales Directors.
The extremely comprehensive 2001 edition introduces two new products: the well-known Eastman Enterprise Workflow for intensive production applications, and the Asian-developed Bizflow2000 flexible form based workflow from Handysoft, which was recently introduced to the US market.
"The 2001 edition is a major revision and extension to carefully selected products from the 1999 edition. The new Workflow Comparative Study is built on the worldwide success of the previous edition with sales in five continents, 30 countries, and across all economic sectors," says the author, Martin Ader, former workflow developer and now leading industry analyst and researcher.
The new Study incorporates a major review of offerings from other vendors: Staffware’s new features; a ready-to-use version of Visual Workflo with DM and Internet integration; the new Outlook client for Dolphin entry-level product from TeamWARE, consolidation of MQSeries Workflow EAI capabilities with an XML encoded message interface, the integration of InConcert in the TIBCO EAI product line, and the consolidation of the W4 native Internet product.
"Our research indicates a strong reinforcement of the Workflow industry with products showing ever-increasing level of features making it even more challenging for newcomers to the market," says Ader.
The Workflow Comparative Study is called "comparative" because each product is analyzed and ranked using the same checklist. It is a very detailed study that looks at 200 features, grouped into 12 criteria. Since each item is scored for each of the products, this provides a total of 2,600 individual scores, each one precisely justified. Because investigation was made into the smallest detail provided in the technical documentation of each product, resulting in over 10,000 pages of research covered, the readers receive extremely in-depth information. The resulting Study comprises a total of 400 pages and over 100 diagrams.
"We see this report as a vital key to understanding how workflow products stack up against each other, "says Layna Fischer, Workflow And Reengineering International Association (WARIA) Chair and General Manager of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). "It is a unique work and will certainly contribute to increased user awareness, an essential goal of both associations. In my opinion, the 1999 edition is already the best comparative study of workflow products available in the industry today."
The Workflow Comparative Study will be available for subscription from November 30 with delivery starting December 6, 2000, in a printed version (US$1,280), and two electronic versions; single user (US$1,950), and a company license (US$ 3,750).
The Study is distributed by W&GS (www.wngs.com) in Europe, and by the WARIA Bookstore in all other countries (www.waria.com).
ABOUT Martin Ader (ader @ wngs.com)
Martin Ader set up and managed the Bull Workflow research team in 1987. The team was later transferred to Wang Software (now Eastman Software), where Martin Ader became responsible for European Workflow Marketing. In 1996, he created his own consultancy firm, Workflow & Groupware Stratégies (W&GS). Martin Ader represents W&GS (a funding member) at the WfMC steering committee with voting right. Ader participates in the Workflow and Reengineering International Association (WARIA) and is WfMCs' France Chapter Chair. He has published books, articles, papers, and participates to conferences in Europe, USA and Asia. Martin Ader runs intensive workshops on workflow engines selection world-wide, and had workflow projects consulting assignments in France, England and USA.
ABOUT Workflow & Groupware Strategies (www.wngs.com)
W&GS provides consultancy in the area of group technologies. The company’s major offerings are: to establish adequate strategies for best usage of group techniques for enhanced productivity and better service quality to clients; to conduct opportunity analysis to detect most profitable ones in the short term; to establish master plan over a three-year period to deploy applications and measure results; to follow pilot and deployment projects in their achievement of projected results.
W&GS insists on early identification of most probable targets, precise analysis of costs and benefits before any decision, seriousness of the infrastructure project (network and servers), and validation of hypothesis based on short pilot projects.