By Arnaud Blandin

I just came back from a trip in Johannesburg where I had the ability to demonstrate the capabilities of Intalio|BPMS at BPM Congress 2008 and meet our first South African customers.

It was interesting to hear our users’ confusion as the marketing messages from some of the more traditional vendors in South Africa is very BPM 1.0 oriented. One vendor at the conference even confessed that they were using BPM in their marketing brochures as it was very trendy and their platform was not designed to use the latest industry standards!

On the good news side, many companies had started SOA initiatives and realized that they could just download and test Intalio|BPMS for free to get an idea why BPM is the killer app for SOA. It was also very exciting to get a full room of trainees for our first ever training in South Africa - we even had a waiting list!

Our good partner Shimo IT is currently implementing projects for our users and you should see some follow-up news soon.

September 7th, 2008