Cloud computing plays important role in BPM

According to a recent Gartner survey, cloud computing plays a major factor in business process management initiatives.

The research firm’s 2010 Gartner BPM end-user adoption survey found 40 percent of organizations with BPM initiatives use public or private cloud services to support at least 10 percent of their business processes within those projects.

“Many business process improvement leaders are looking to understand how cloud services and cloud platforms can help them improve business processes within their organizations, as well as inter-enterprise processes that touch partners, suppliers and customers,” said Michele Cantara, research vice president at Gartner.

Furthering the demand of the cloud within the BPM world is the growth in public business services and the increasing availability of BPM Platform-as-a-Service for those business process services. Gartner’s survey found 13 percent of organizations using the technology saw BPM PaaS as a top five technological capability central to the success of their BPM efforts.

The cloud’s success and adoption across many sectors has led IDC to predict worldwide IT spending on the cloud will reach $44.2 billion by 2013.