''Lombardi Software'' was an enterprise software company based in

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. Lombardi Software created

business process management Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business pro ...

(BPM) software and was founded in 1998. It was acquired by IBM in 2010 when it had 220 employees. Phil Gilbert, its president, has played a key role in IBM's efforts to focus product development on design.

Significance in BPM

Lombardi Software was founded in 1998 by Brian Cooper in Austin, Texas. It was the first "Pure Play" BPM software vendor to market. It specialized in process management from its founding. Unlike other "stack vendors", Lombardi did not sell products or services outside the BPM industry. Phil Gilbert was, for a period, Chairperson of the Object Management Group's (OMG) BPM Steering Committee which manages

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standards such as

BPMN Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a graphical representation for specifying business processes in a business process model. Originally developed by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), BPMN has been maintained by the Ob ...

. At IBM, as of 2015, he was general manager of design leading a project to make design central to IBM's program of developing new products based on consumers'needs. Lombardi was the first BPM vendor to create a tool, Lombardi Blueprint, based on

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practices. Compared to traditional

business process modeling Business process modeling (BPM) in business process management and systems engineering is the activity of process modeling, representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current business processes may be analyzed, improved, and automated. B ...

tools, Blueprint is a web-based application with wiki, shared whiteboard, and chat capabilities. It was one of the first "Business applications" based on

technologies and methodology.

Products

There were two products created by Lombardi: Lombardi Teamworks – Lombardi's primary product – a

suite (BPMS). This tool is designed to create, optimize, and manage executable

workflow A workflow consists of an orchestrated and repeatable pattern of activity, enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. It can be depicted as a sequence of ...

diagrams. Lombardi Blueprint – This tool is described as a process documentation and discovery tool.

External links

Company website (redirects to "Intelligent business process management" at IBM)

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References

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