ProcessMaker: BPM Solutions for Simplified Workflow Processes

“Ironically, one of the main challenges in the BPM field today is the relevance of BPM itself,” says Brian Reale, Co-founder and CEO of ProcessMaker Inc. (previously Colosa Inc.). He associates his concern to some of the important and noticeable changes in the software industry. “It has become very easy to create software that is perfectly tailored to suite a particular need. Also, the frameworks for building software have gotten easier to use,” he adds. ProcessMaker, a Brooklyn, NY based company addresses this challenge by adding a number of very specific vertical solutions into its BPM suite. “These vertical solutions are driven by industry best practices and mean that companies don’t have to use a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach. Instead, our customers get software that is fully customized to their needs right out of the box,” remarks Reale.

The company’s flagship product, ProcessMaker, is workflow software that assists businesses of any size with designing, automating and deploying different business processes from a single software suite. “We realized that open source was the most frictionless way to allow new users to start using our product so we made ProcessMaker open source. Within a few years it became one of the most downloaded open source BPM products in the world,” extols Reale.

ProcessMaker features an extensive toolbox which provides the ability to easily create digital forms and map out fully functioning workflows. The software is completely web based and accessed via any web browser, making it simple to manage and coordinate workflows throughout an entire organization-including user groups and departments. It can also interact with other applications and systems such as ERP, business intelligence, CRM and document management— giving a unified experience. “With the additional benefit of it being open source, ProcessMaker Enterprise clients can take advantage of a fully supported, high quality BPM suite,” he adds.