Comments on: IBM Buying Lombardi: A Bauble on their BPM Christmas Tree?

By: Appian Insight » What a Difference a BPM Software Acquisition Makes: A Look into the Wayback Machine

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:57:34 +0000

[...] Phil Gilbert said was “worth nothing.” The latter is what IBM described as merely a “departmental BPM” solution in their acquisition analyst [...]

By: Quora

Quora — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:54:23 +0000

What made Lombardi Software desirable to IBM?…

IBM really needed a business-friendly face on their portfolio: the WebSphere products at the time (late 2009) just didn’t cut it when put in front of business people at their customers, since it’s really a developer tool. In the initial announcement …

By: Appian Analyst Briefing: 2009 Overview and Future Outlook

Appian Analyst Briefing: 2009 Overview and Future Outlook — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:28:33 +0000

[...] I attended their user conference in October, and was interested to hear their plans in the wake of recent BPM [...]

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Column 2 : Appian Analyst Briefing: 2009 Overview and Future Outlook — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:59:20 +0000

[...] I attended their user conference in October, and was interested to hear their plans in the wake of recent BPM [...]

By: Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:55:22 +0000

Tom, I don’t think that Lombardi was nearly big enough to be considered a real competitor by IBM, so I don’t think that they were acquired just to take them out of the game. I think that it’s more of a marketing move, to be able to say that they have something that’s business-friendly in their WebSphere BPM portfolio.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:33:11 +0000

Sandy, there are rumours circulating inside IBM that Lobmardi was acquired to simply take out the competitor out of the game. What do you think?

By: More BPM Acquisitions: Progress Buys Savvion

More BPM Acquisitions: Progress Buys Savvion — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:12:08 +0000

[...] Progress Software announced that they’ve bought Savvion for $49M. This is hot on the heels of IBM’s announcement last month that they’re buying Lombardi, with one huge difference being that Progress doesn’t [...]

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Column 2 : More BPM Acquisitions: Progress Buys Savvion — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:07:22 +0000

By: IBM to Acquire Lombardi | SOA Governance - Service Oriented Architecture - SOA Business - SOA Design - SOA Services - SOA Software - SOA Solutions - SOA Security - SOA Web Service

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:00:00 +0000

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By: Sandy Kemsley

Sandy Kemsley — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:08:45 +0000

Went, when I review that post from the time of the IBM-FileNet acquisition, I believe that I was thinking that their process management (rather than content management) didn’t have much of a future. If you check the link to Phil Ayres post that I referenced in the same sentence, and my comment about Connie Moore’s opinion on FileNet’s BPM immediately after that, those are both about process rather than content.

Of course, none of us can be right all the time.