Bluespring's BPM 4.4 Released, Plays Well With Microsoft CRM

Bluespring Software, which sells Business Process Management software, has announced the general availability of BPM Suite 4.4. The new release, according to company officials, "expands the number of things a business person can do with little to no involvement from IT."

The product lets users "create, retrieve, update, publish and delete files" from any standards-based (WebDAV) document management product, such as Microsoft (News - Alert) Sharepoint Portal Server, FileNet, Documentum and others. Processes can be triggered by document library events and site management can be automated.

It also works with Microsoft's CRM 3.0, as its processes "can be triggered by events or actions within CRM," officials say, and can pass business rules and process data between InRule's BRE and BPM Suite, "facilitating the management of rules separate from process management."

"Business processes should be owned by business people and a business's people should be able to participate in a process using common desktop tools like e-mail and Office," said Karl Treier, Bluespring's Chief Technology Officer.

Founded as a software development company for telecom, Bluespring switched to BPM in 2002. "From that point, Bluespring learned business process management and created a software program that could be tailored to any industry," according to a profile last year in the Cincinnati Business Courier.

"CEOs and CFOs have to certify financial documents now. This instills confidence in investors and puts the execs on the line," Jeff Mills, Bluespring vice president of channel development and partner enrichment told the Business Courier:

"The result for Bluespring has been 300 percent growth each year since its switch to BPM development in 2003. The company declined to share specific revenue figures.

[CEO Rob] Daly and Mills say their secret has been targeting information technology consultants in all industries to market their technology. Rather than try to learn every industry, they rely on these consultants to tailor Bluespring's technology to their clients."

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