Metastorm (News - Alert), a division of OpenText and a provider of business process management (BPM), enterprise architecture software for business transformation and business process analysis solutions, has announced the release of the Metastorm BPM software suite, version 9.1. Other announcements include the Metastorm Smart Business Workspace, version 9.0, and the company’s new Business Performance Intelligence Dashboards. 

OpenText is an enterprise fax over IP provider and its Metastorm line addresses the business intelligence and process management side of the business. Key features within the company’s latest solutions offer enhanced capabilities for social BOM to facilitate collaborative process design and instant collaboration so that specific items can be worked and resolved more rapidly; the ability to search for individual user profiles according to skills; and enhanced design features that support the development of more dynamic applications to improve usability, rapid global development and higher user productivity. 

The new Metastorm Business Performance Intelligence Dashboards are designed to provide graphical dashboards that are dynamic and easily personalized so as to facilitate meaningful data analysis. As a result, company leaders can make more informed decisions across the Metastorm Business Transformation Platform. When combined with enterprise fax over IP, the information captured can effectively drive business intelligence initiatives. 

BPM solutions provided by Metastorm are recognized by customers and top industry analyst firms for delivering leading technology to address business process management as a result of the breadth and depth of this functionality. The enhanced capabilities in this latest release enable companies to capture lessons learned in social media and apply them to business processes across the board. As a result, these companies can enjoy greater business productivity and improvement. 

These new product enhancements, as well as integrated enterprise fax over IP, can help organizations to successfully implement improvements in their business processes through the empowerment of users seeking to become more engaged and productive. The social collaboration tools offered allow businesses access to highly personalized workspace and top contributors so they can more easily drive innovation and increase collaboration. The end result is often increased efficiency among employees. 

“Our latest versions of Metastorm BPM and Metastorm Smart Business Workspace apply the concepts of connecting today's knowledge workers by leveraging social networking and social collaboration tools in a way that offers a highly personalized user experience. This process results in faster, easier access to information anytime and anywhere,” said Greg Carter (News - Alert), chief technology officer and executive vice president of Metastorm, in a statement.

“The addition of the Metastorm Business Process Intelligence dashboards further strengthens our ability to offer our customers the resources to make smart, informed business decisions and drive meaningful change across the enterprise.”

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Edited by Jennifer Russell