Industry Leadership

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Industry Leadership

Lombardi is helping to lead the BPM industry towards its mission: enabling businesses to become more nimble, take control of business processes , provide enterprise-wide visibility into those processes and drive continuous improvement.

Industry advisory firms like Gartner and Forrester Research work with companies to provide advice and guidance during the BPM selection process and can provide insight into the BPM market, BPMS vendor performance and product capabilities. As a recognized BPM Suite Leader, Lombardi has been included in the following reviews:

Our advocacy comes in many areas, including the development of innovative technology and contributing to industry standards. Industry analysts credit us not only with excellent technology, but also a strong strategy for the future of BPM. While we support a diverse set of standards, we are particularly excited about the active contributions we are making to the most important BPM standards and platforms.

Standards Leadership

As with any growth industry, there is an alphabet soup of BPM standards, some of which are playing a key role in the development of BPM, and some less so. Lombardi’s philosophy is to promote the use of standards as far as possible, since this will drive more rapid market adoption.

Lombardi is an avid adopter of standards-based technologies, and the people of Lombardi are active participants and thought leaders, driving standards, publishing articles, presenting at technical events and leading standards bodies. It's not only good for our products, but also good for the community.

Standards Overview

The following standards are critical to the adoption of BPM. They should be carefully considered by anyone evaluating BPM vendors.

BPMN A Modeling standard. The most critical BPM standard, it is the centerpiece for defining and communicating process.
BPEL A language for executing processes. Currently focused on system-to-system processes via web services and weak on human facing processes.
BPDM A representation of BPMN in XML means to more easily describe and execute a BPMN process.
J2EE A fundamental standard ensuring Java compatibility and ease of maintenance. Important that it is rigorously applied.
.NET A standard ensuring compatibility with Microsoft products. Important, given the ubiquity of Microsoft in most businesses
WSRP A web services based standard similar to JSR-168 that ensures BPM products can work well in any portal product.
JSR-168 A Java-based portal standard, ensuring that BPM products can work well in any portal product.
Eclipse A standard platform for development environments, preferred and used by the majority of developers.
Web
Services		 A set of standards designed to ensure easy system integration across the enterprise.

To learn more about these individual standards and Lombardi's support for them, please read our Standards support brochure.

Lombardi's work on standards

2007 Gold Award for Global Excellence in BPM & Workflow
Technology of the Year for Best BPM - from InfoWorld Magazine


Lombardi's TeamWorks won the Best Rich Client Platform product at the recent the EclipseCon technical and user conference.

Meet Phil Gilbert, Lombardi CTO, and Petko Chobantonov, Lead Developer, at the BPM Thinktank. They will each be leading a roundtable discussion.


Don't miss Lombardi developers Graham Sanderson and Michael Nonemacher speaking about their innovative uses of Java at JavaOne in May!


Lombardi recently achieved Microsoft Gold Partner Certification, the highest attainable level. We are also excited to be active members of the Information Worker Solutions community, exploring what is possible with the next generation of the Microsoft Office System.