Some of you will no doubt have seen today’s announcement of a Business Process Alliance by Microsoft (their press release is here). Fair Isaac is one of the 10 companies in this alliance (see the Fair Isaac press release here). Interestingly a couple of BPM vendors are also in the 10, including one of Fair Isaac’s partners (Metastorm).

Personally I think this is interesting for several reasons:

As businesses become more sophisticated internally and interconnected externally, managers phrase BPM more often to address a need for IT systems to respond to this ever-changing business landscape at least at the same pace of change.

Today’s IT executives want the best software available. With business process management that means finding solutions that provide key benefits.