Metastorm Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in 2010 EA Tools Magic Quadrant

BALTIMORE, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Metastorm, a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis (BPA), and Enterprise Architecture (EA) software for aligning strategy with execution, today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of the most recent Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools(1),  published October 28, 2010 by Gartner, Inc.  

The report evaluates vendor solutions on how well they support EA teams in everyday activities such as modeling, future-state analysis, road mapping, dashboard analysis and scenario planning that impact these stakeholders.  

"Enterprise architects must integrate, analyze and communicate structured and unstructured information about a wide range of subjects (technology, solutions, interfaces, information and data, business processes, organization structure, and strategy)," states the Gartner EA Tools report. "While many teams start off using drawing tools, spreadsheets, and other office productivity and content management tools to document and share their EA, this approach becomes extremely difficult once artifacts appear in multiple places. Adoption of an EA tool addresses this issue of keeping all changes in sync by providing a single repository that enables the changes to be reflected in the entire architecture across all viewpoints."

Metastorm ProVision® provides a powerful suite for enterprise and business architecture, process discovery and business process analysis. Key resources – goals, technology, organization, data, finances, processes, products, suppliers, etc. – and inter-dependencies can be modeled and shared for both current and future planning and improvements.  Integrated BPA capabilities also enables business processes to be modeled, simulated and optimized to take full advantage of available business resources across the entire enterprise. Process discovery capabilities allow accurate data to be collected about current processes to ensure valid models and simulation assumptions.  

Gartner, Inc.'s Magic Quadrant positions vendors in a particular market segment based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. Complementing its position in this report, Metastorm was also recently placed in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites (BPMS)(2), published October 18, 2010, and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis Tools(3) published February 22, 2010.

Metastorm ProVision integrates seamlessly with the Metastorm Enterprise software portfolio, which combines best-of-breed EA, BPA, and BPM capabilities on a common, integrated framework, to deliver the industry's most powerful platform for aligning strategy, analysis and execution across all levels of the organization.  Further augmenting Metastorm's leading EA, BPA and BPM solutions, the Metastorm Business Transformation Practices Framework leverages the entire Metastorm software portfolio and industry templates to provide organizations with a successful methodology for managing change and achieving successful, ongoing transformation to meet key strategic and operational objectives.

"We view our position in the Leaders quadrant in three Gartner Magic Quadrants as confirmation of our ability to deliver effective solutions that enable organizations to translate vision and strategy into operative change that ultimately drives business outcomes," stated Robert Farrell, chairman and CEO of Metastorm. "Metastorm remains committed to innovating and delivering market-leading software that enables our customers to align strategy with business execution in a meaningful, results-oriented way."  

(1) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools" by Chris Wilson and Julie Short, October  28, 2010.

(2) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites" by Jim Sinur, Janelle B. Hill, October 18, 2010.

(3) Gartner, Inc., "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis" by David Norton, Mike Blechar, Teresa Jones, February 22, 2010.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Gartner Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc., and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Metastorm Inc.

With a focus on enterprise visibility, resource optimization, efficiency and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading software for enterprise and business architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and business process management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise allows organizations to improve business results by better aligning strategy with execution. By combining the power of these three disciplines onto a common platform, Metastorm is helping organizations worldwide focus on the right business improvements, instill stronger governance, and accelerate time to value. For more information and success stories on organizations powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise, visit www.metastorm.com.

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