The Top 10 Business Process Management (BPM) Solutions

Appian is a business optimization company that is based in McLean, VA. Their AI-powered BPM Suite provides end-to-end automation of your workflows, risk protection agreements (RPA), identity protection, with no-code connectors and user-friendly APIs, to streamline your processes. The solution carries out process mining to identify inefficiencies, allowing you to optimize business operations and strategies. Appian’s BPM Suite can be configured using low-code methods to allow a wide variety of users to benefit from the solution. It delivers an engaging experience for users; be it mobile or desktop device, and on any OS.

Appian’s BPM suite is simple to deploy and configure, ensuring that organizations can benefit from it quickly. This platform’s wide compatibility is also a positive; you do not need to worry about the solution not working with particular tools or business processes. The Suite gathers intelligence from across your business and allows you to make informed adaptations and reconfigurations. We would recommend this solution for medium to large organizations that need an effective and robust BPM solution.

Bizagi is a process automation platform that enhances collaboration between business and IT, allowing for processes to be streamlined and optimized. The platform allows you to model, design, automate, and manage business processes using low code methods. You can orchestrate data, people, and bots as well as gathering data from each of these assets. The platform’s intelligent analysis also allows you to monitor your regulatory compliance to ensure you are not breaching any governance policies.

Bizagi BPM’s interface is sleek and easily navigable. This ensures that you can find the information that you need quickly and implement any changes without hassle. You can use a drag and drop interface to design and configure your workflows; this empowers users with a wide range of experience levels to manage this solution. We would recommend this solution for small organizations that are looking for an effective tool for business process mapping and automation.

Based in Foxborough, MA, CMW Lab is a global enterprise software company focused on business operations and management solutions. The CMW platform empowers you to innovate and improve business practices through a host of business modelling, execution, and optimization tools. The solution aims to shift the focus from programmers to analysts through its low-code infrastructure and simple integration features. CMW Lab also has case and task management features that make it more useful than just a BPM solution.

CMW Lab’s UI is reminiscent of Microsoft Office, making it easy for users to adapt to the new solution. This dashboard also makes it easy to identify and review relevant information gathered by the solution. The tool improves automation workflows and ensures that policies are enforced across a whole network. Reports and workflows can be fully customized to suit your organization, and even individual employees or groups. We would recommend this solution for medium sized organizations that need a reliable and versatile workflow and task manager, in addition to the BPM capabilities.

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Emakin provides an interactive, web-based interface that monitors all aspects of business process lifecycles. Their platform performs advanced analysis and modelling, as well as having the capacity to proactively enhance and carry out simulations. Emakin is built using a flexible architecture that allows you to reconfigure and modify workloads when necessary. The solution can model system integrations and features a comprehensive task and case management tool.

Emakin has developed a comprehensive tool that empowers organizations to improve workflow management and performance execution. The solution scales easily, making it ideal for organizations that are expecting growth through the optimization of their business practices. While the platform is more cost effective than many other vendors, it still offers a broad feature set, and its capability rivals the bigger players in the market. Another benefit of this product is its low-code format; users do not need to have a wealth of experience in coding to alter the solution’s configuration. We would recommend this solution for organizations of all sizes that are looking for a robust, yet flexible, BPM solution.

Amongst IBM’s wealth of technologies and services, their Operational Decision Manager allows organizations to analyze, automate, and make rules-based business decisions. This improves efficiency and effectiveness, whilst ensuring compliance with relevant frameworks and collecting audit logs to prove this. The intelligent solution allows you to carry out testing and simulations to validate business logic against known scenarios and key performance indicators (KPIs).

IBM Operational Decision Manager empowers organizations to make complex business decisions through real-time analysis of data and events. The solution empowers you to automate business decisions with a high degree of precision; these workflows can be altered without having to write vast quantities of code. The platform is available as a stand-alone tool, or as part of IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation. We would recommend IBM Operational Decision Manager for organizations of all sizes that are looking for a comprehensive and effective solution that can integrate easily with the wider IBM ecosystem.

Nintex is a Washington based business analytics provider that is focused on improving business processes through intelligence and automation. Their solutions are used by over 10,000 public and private sector organizations globally. Nintex Promapp simplifies and streamlines the experience of mapping and management to improve an organization’s ability to gain network insights. One of the features that makes this platform stand out is its focus on compliance, allowing you to map and monitor compliance processes for auditing purposes.

Nintex is very responsive to customer support needs and is always engaged in listening to feedback to improve the platform. This illustrates how the, already strong, platform will continue to improve over time. We would recommend this platform for SMEs that need an easy-to-use solution with an intuitive interface, that can streamline and optimize your business processes.

Pipefy is a San Francisco-based business automation and process management company. Their platform improves business workflows and allows you to integrate end-to-end operations, whilst maintaining network security. Through the platform, data and requests are centralized, allowing you to gain extensive visibility easily. This usability is enhanced by Pipefy’s low-code workflow configuration, makes the platform suitable for non-technical admins.

Pipefy’s solution allows your organization to scale, without a decrease in visibility or leaving network areas unmonitored. The solution also excels through its extensive automation capabilities; bug tracking, onboarding, IT requests, asset management, and service desk enquiries can all be automated to improve efficiency. This, coupled with the platform’s low-code infrastructure, allows you to prioritize your time and focus on more complex, human-oriented tasks. We would recommend this solution for small to medium sized organization’s that need a versatile solution with a focus on automation and performance analysis.

Based in Durham, NC, ProcessMaker specializes in producing enterprise business process management software. Their low-code product allows for extensive customization, whilst remaining easy to use and efficient. The platform’s dashboard can be customized to highlight and filter information as you require. The modelling tool allows you to fine tune your business processes (using drag and drop tools) to ensure that you are operating as effectively as possible.

ProcessMaker allows you to automate many of your manual business processes, as well as create comprehensive plans and procedures for a range of activities. The solution can monitor your activity to identify any issues or anomalies before they develop into problems, which reduces inefficiencies and allows you to improve productivity. Additionally, you do not need extensive experience in programming to implement new policies within ProcessMaker. We would recommend this solution for midmarket sized organizations that require a feature-rich solution to business process management.

TIBCO provides a range of intelligent analytics solutions to give organizations valuable insights into their business environment. Spotfire is a fully scalable analytics platform that allows decision makers to access predictive analysis, geolocation analytics, and streaming analytics to optimize processes. The platform has an engaging UI that highlights relevant data in a range of visual and interactive graphs. From here, you can drill down into data and make comparisons with historical information. Admins can write and manage custom scripts with native R and Python bundled engines. Pre-trained data science models can also be integrated.

TIBCO’s solution is versatile enough that it can add value to a range of use cases. You are able to access data and intelligence quickly, allowing you to make policy changes quickly. The platform is powerful, with large quantities of data being analyzed and visualized in a variety of useful ways. This makes the platform a useful tool when explaining BPM findings and procedures to key decision makers. We would recommend this solution for organizations that require a platform with strong reporting and analytics features.

Zvolv has developed an intelligent business process automation solution that helps in the planning, execution, and operation of tasks to improve efficiency and productivity. The automation platform combines BPM, risk protection arrangements (RPA), AI/ML, and analytics capabilities to streamline and enhance your workflow. You can integrate Zvolv with a range of common workplace applications and services to give you extensive network visibility.

One of the solution’s key capabilities is its project management tools; you can quickly check the status of on-going tasks. The UI is streamlined and easy to use, thereby ensuring that you get the most out of the solution. The low/no-code capabilities, alongside the UI, mean that even non-technical users can use the platform. We would recommend Zvolv’s solution for small to medium sized organizations that require a streamlined and efficient BPM solution.