Butler Group Technology Audit on the AgilePoint BPM Suite

Ascentn’s AgilePoint BPM Suite is a .NET-based, model-driven, Business Process Management (BPM) solution, aimed at building SOA-aligned, highly adaptive process-based applications through composition of process-enabled IT assets abstracted from and across existing applications, and messaging and productivity solutions, with a focus on leveraging common Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint servers, SharePoint services, BizTalk, InfoPath, Visual Studio, and the .NET platform. The suite comprises a Visio-based process modeller which is, in fact, also an integrated composition environment for process-based SOA composition a Visual Studio-based development environment for creating encapsulated reusable process elements in XML enabled by metadata driven IT asset abstraction framework, and a XML-based process execution engine. AgilePoint focuses on increased visibility and manageability into processes, both at design time and at run time, and on business user-driven process formulation and management.

The Butler Group performed a technology audit on the Agilepoint BPM Suite.

Some highlights from the report:

Ascentn AgilePoint has taken the potential of a Microsoft-based BPM to a new level by delivering a metadata framework enabled model-driven BPMS.

AgilePoint is a 100% .NET platform oriented BPM engine which is robust, secure, scalable, and manageable, with XML and Web services forming the core of the solution architecture

In terms of the feature set, Agilepoint BPMS represents the best of the relatively new crop of .NET-based BPM solutions that extensively use Microsoft technology to support processes that involve crucial human interfacing components

Overall, a competent solution that is well aligned with the requirements of large enterprises and mid-sized companies that require a flexible inexpensive solution to support business processes that span multiple applications and governance silos.

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