{"id":940,"date":"2009-09-25T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2009-09-25T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T15:00:46","slug":"bpm-investments-in-efficiencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/bpm-investments-in-efficiencies\/","title":{"rendered":"BPM: Investment in Efficiencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enterprise software spending has been down considerably in 2009.\u00a0 But there are pockets in the industry where that has not been the case.\u00a0 Business Process Management \/ Workflow spending is an example of one segment that is an exception.<\/p>\n<p>In tough times, organizations are looking to maximize their process efficiencies, and many are seeing BPM as a tool that can help.\u00a0 Gartner reports that more than half of enterprises plan to increase spending on BPM by at least 5 percent.\u00a0 And about 30 percent plan to increase BPM spending by 10 percent or more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Companies that ramp up their BPM investments now are going to be poised for growth when the economy rebounds,&#8221; said <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gartner on BPM investments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insurancenetworking.com\/news\/insurance_technology_business_process_management_data_gartner-12809-1.html\">Michele Cantara<\/a>, research vice president at Gartner. &#8220;These organizations are largely optimistic about their growth prospects over the next 12 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those companies that are investing in BPM are optimistic for the future.\u00a0 As many as 42% of them are expecting to grow in 2009, while only 23% are expecting to decline.<\/p>\n<p><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"gwProxy\" \/><!--Session data--><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"gwProxy\" \/><!--Session data--><input type=\"hidden\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" \/><\/p>\n<div 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