Progress Software Rolls Out Business Process Platform

According to Progress Software CTO Dr. John Bates, the Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite effectively creates a “control tower” for managing business processes. In addition to including technology developed by Progress, RPM also pulls together technologies from Actional and Savvion that Progress recently acquired.

Bates said RPM creates a unified platform for managing business processes that can monitor millions of events to identify patterns that in turn can be used to identify both opportunities and potential threats to the business. All of these events can be tracked and managed in real time using the Control Tower management model that is included in RPM, he said.

RPM also includes a series of tools for tracking key performance indicators and templates for modeling common business processes associated with a number of vertical industries.

According to Bates, RPM represents the manifestation of a software industry that is rapidly moving past packaged applications that essentially pour “liquid concrete” around a business process, as opposed to creating a dynamic environment that rapidly adopts to change business process circumstances.