LiveCycle Makes the Gartner Magic Quadrant for BPMS!

Monday 25th October 2010

Adobe LiveCycle ES2, a solution Avoka have been deploying for customers for 8 years, has made it into the Gartner's BPMS (Business Process Management Suite) (BPMS) leaders quadrant for 2010 - , delighting all on the LiveCycle product team at Adobe and everyone within Avoka. a market Gartner estimates that the size in 2009 totaled $1.9 billion in revenue, compared with $1.6 billion in 2008 – an increase of 15%.

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant is produced annually based upon Gartner’s evaluation of the top 25 vendors within the market. The quadrant is made up of a top four usage scenarios for BPMSs and is designed to offer a tool that Gartner clients can use to evaluate vendors in this market. The Magic Quadrant depicts the relative strengths of the top 25 vendors that offer multiregional, cross-industry BPMSs that interest Gartner clients and non-clients the most. In addition, these vendors account for most of the spending in the BPMS market.

Adobe has been placed into the Leader quadrant. This position (and the position of any other vendor in the 2010 BPMS Magic Quadrant) is, according to the Gartner, BPM Magic Quadrant 2010 report “directly related to its ability to support the top four usage scenarios that drive buyers to invest in BPMS (rather than alternative forms of application infrastructure), and to the vendor’s support for characteristics of the BPMS ‘sweet spot’ as defined by Gartner. Those usage scenarios, in order of buyer interest (based on anecdotal evidence from our client inquiries), are:

Support for a continuous process improvement program

Implementation of an industry-specific or company-specific process solution

Support for a business transformation initiative

Support for a process-based, service-oriented-architecture (SOA) redesign”.

More than 60 BPMS vendors worldwide were evaluated for this year’s Magic Quadrant – those who met the specified conditions were included in the graph and there were 25 in total that met these criteria. Details of which can be found within the report itself. Within the quadrant the spread of vendors is divided as follows: Leaders address all four usage scenarios. Niche Players excel at one or two only. Challengers and Visionaries vary in the breadth and depth of their support for the four usage scenarios.
Adobe LiveCycle was praised on several key aspects of the product – namely that the experience of the product is rich, interactive and engaging, as well as intuitive and flexible across varying formats and usable both on and offline. Gartner describes the product as providing BPM within a platform that offers a “rich, interactive customer experience”.

Overall, the latest findings from Gartner signal a growing market in BPMS and that more organizations are adopting BPM as a discipline. In the last year they have found an increase in clients expressing pursuit of continuous process improvement or business transformation initiatives based on BPM - now up to six out of ten. Gartner conclude this trend reflects the changing nature of business itself in response to globalization and .Gartner estimates that the size of the BPM market in 2009 is $1.9 billion, up 15% on 2008.

Check out our blog on how to read the Magic Quadrant - Avoka Blog