| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Business Software |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters |  Baltimore, MD |
Key people | Robert Farrell - Chairman & CEO, Chris Desautelle - Chief Financial Officer, Eileen Garry - Chief Marketing Officer, Greg Carter - Chief Technology Officer |
| Products | Metastorm ProVision® Metastorm ProVisionBPA Metastorm BPM® Metastorm Integration Manager |
| Services | Training, Consulting |
| Website | www.metastorm.com |
Metastorm Inc. is a software company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland
Metastorm Inc. develops software and provides services in the areas of enterprise architecture, business process modeling and analysis, and business process management.
In addition to its Baltimore, MD headquarters, Metastorm has U.S. offices in Tampa, FL, Detroit, MI, New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA, as well as offices in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, and South Africa. Its products and services focus on eight industry sectors: education, financial services, government, health care, legal/business services, manufacturing and distribution, pharmaceutical, and retail.
History
editMetastorm was established in 1996 as a business process management (BPM) vendor. Through a series of acquisitions, including Sysgenics, BEI and Software Systems Group, it extended its capabilities and has since been recognized by independent analyst groups like Butler [1], Forrester Research [2] [3], Gartner [4] and IDC [5] who categorize Metastorm as offering integrated software solutions across the three related disciplines of enterprise architecture (EA), business process modeling and analysis (BPA), and BPM.
Metastorm evolved its original human-centric BPM product — e-Work® — into a BPM suite designed to support the full process management lifecycle. The software was rebranded as Metastorm BPM® following Metastorm’s acquisition of CommerceQuest in 2005.
In 2007 Metastorm acquired Proforma Corporation – adding the Metastorm ProVision® enterprise architecture and business process modeling and analysis solutions to its portfolio. That year Metastorm also acquired two more companies- Process Competence, a European firm that helped organizations design and optimize customer-oriented business processes, as well as Spotlight Data, a software company specializing in process data collection and analysis. These acquisitions allowed Metastorm to add the Metastorm Discovery™ solution for human-centric process discovery to its product offerings.
Products
editThe Metastorm Enterprise™ platform includes:
• Metastorm ProVision® — an enterprise architecture and business process analysis tool designed to enable users to translate business strategy and operational objectives into enterprise change through models that describe enterprise assets and their relationships. It is available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language versions.
• Metastorm ProVisionBPA — a business process analysis tool designed to provide capabilities to model and analyze business processes and associated dependencies, simulate multiple scenarios, and optimize procedures. This also includes the Metastorm Discovery™ tool for human-centric process discovery and data capture. The BPA tool is available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish language versions.
• Metastorm BPM® — Formerly called Metastorm e-work, this BPM suite supports design, automation, deployment, integration, analysis and monitoring of both human and system-based processes within and across organizations — its purpose is to improve overall business execution. It is available in English, French, German, and Spanish language versions.
• Metastorm Integration Manager — handles high-volume, system-based processes and managed file transfer (MFT) as well as leverages legacy applications. It provides a platform for designing, executing, and monitoring system-based processes. Formerly called PM4data.
Standards and industry forums Metastorm is a member of the Object Management Group [6] Supply Chain Council [7]and Value Chain Group.
The company’s software provides support for standards such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), XML Process Definition Language (XPDL), Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and CADM.
According to Metastorm’s website, the company also follows the Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP) guidelines [8], Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) [9], Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Enhanced Telecom Operations Map (eTOM), Six Sigma, Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR), Design Chain Operations Reference Model (DCOR), Customer Chain Operations Reference Model (CCOR), and Value Reference Model (VRM) [10].
Notes
edit- ^ Thompson, M. “Metastorm BPM v7 Technology Audit”
- ^ Peyret, H. “The Forrester Wave : Business Process Analysis, EA Tools, And IT Planning, Q1 2009”
- ^ Teubner, C. “The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPM for Microsoft Platforms, Q4 2007”
- ^ “Metastorm Positioned in Leader’s Quadrant in 2009 Business Process Management Suites Magic Quadrant”
- ^ Fleming, M. & Silverstein, J. “Ease of Use and Integration Requirements Lead Buyers to Metastorm BPMS”
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ “Metastorm meets GAMP 4.0 Guidelines”
- ^ “Metastorm Reference Models”
- ^ [ http://www.metastorm.com/products/reference_models/overview_index.asp “Metastorm Reference Models]