In a recent study, Gartner Group determined that most BPM projects are deployed within 6 months with a greater than 95% success rate (meaning they beat the target ROI). This is exceptional for IT projects. The reason for this is the large pool of untapped inefficiency in most cross-functional business processes. You can probably think of examples within your own company. So why are you waiting to implement BPM?

IT organizations typically focus resources on a few major strategic software vendors, like IBM or SAP. But leading analysts agree that the majors won't have a smoothly integrated BPM offering available for some time.

Process Excellence Equals Competitive Advantage

Pure-play BPM vendors have technology which can be applied to build and improve process-centric applications - today. And, many industry leaders have already started implementing, because they believe that there is a penalty for waiting until the major enterprise providers are ready. To minimize risk and avoid delays in your BPM evaluation, evaluate the benefits of implementing BPM today and yielding ROI in 4-6 months versus waiting 2-3 years for the major software providers to catch up in technology capability.

Organizations that are moving ahead aggressively with BPM will have already upgraded dozens of key processes and built the organizational capability to improve their processes way before the major software providers have products. Because of the high ROI on BPM, their customers will already have noticed a significant difference compared to their competitors, who won't even have upgraded a single process.

The market leaders who believe that BPM and Process Excellence is a game-changing transformation are not waiting. They are investing in BPM platforms such as Lombardi TeamWorks, because they are comfortable that the rewards significantly outweigh the risks. Furthermore, Lombardi's industry-leading commitment to open standards protects our customers' investment now and in the future.