BPM Pure-play

Gartner first introduced the term BPM pure-play in 2003 to describe tools that delivered an application-independent approach to coordinating business. BPM pure-play products provide a set of services and tools for explicit process management (that is, process analysis, definition, execution, monitoring and administration), including support for human- and application-level interaction. BPM pure-play software includes commercially available software products that have all these features:

• Process orchestration engine
• Modeling environment
• Human-to-human workflow
• Monitoring and analysis capabilities
• Offline simulation
• System-to-system integration
• Business process performance reporting