OpenText acquired BPM solution Metastorm in 2011, and has rebranded the product as OpenText MBPM. It is an alternative BPM solution to OpenText's primary BPM offering called OpenText Cordys Business Process Management.
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We found that OpenText MBPM held its own quite well against IBM BPM. We ended up choosing OpenText MBPM due to the analytics, complex routing, and the ease of SOA service integration. Furthermore, the ability to quickly develop simple User interfaces make this tool a daily …
Before first using Metastorm at a previous company, I reviewed 30 systems, shortlisted 4 and chose Metastorm as being intuitively the easiest to develop with. We have recently looked at a number of alternatives but decide to stick with OpenText BPM.
I have evaluated [business process management] products such as Nintex, K2, and Intapp. Each of these products are excellent options, and each have strengths and weaknesses. Metastorm and K2 in my opinion offer more flexibility, but require a higher level of technical ability …
Features
OpenText MBPM
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
OpenText MBPM
7.0
3 Ratings
11% below category average
Dashboards
7.93 Ratings
Standard reports
9.02 Ratings
Custom reports
4.03 Ratings
Process Engine
Comparison of Process Engine features of Product A and Product B
OpenText MBPM
7.3
3 Ratings
13% below category average
Process designer
8.13 Ratings
Process simulation
7.13 Ratings
Business rules engine
9.02 Ratings
SOA support
6.02 Ratings
Process player
7.02 Ratings
Support for modeling languages
8.02 Ratings
Form builder
6.93 Ratings
Model execution
6.13 Ratings
Collaboration
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OpenText MBPM
7.6
3 Ratings
9% below category average
Social collaboration tools
7.63 Ratings
Content Management Capabilties
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Metastorm is well-suited for scenarios in which internal stress testing an application is needed in a hurry before showcasing it to potential customers. It supports different views of the process from Swimlane perspective, so different methodologies can be handled. It is an Enterprise level tool and handles both small and large projects quite well, although smaller companies may be stressed out by the amount of time it takes to properly maintain the application.
The Metastorm process engine is based on an older version of .NET. Updating to a newer version would resolve several known issues with .NET email functionality.
Metastorm builds web pages at run time. While the UI presented to the end user is fine, the Document Object Model is convoluted and subject to change with new releases. Providing a more simplified DOM or at very least a custom function to replace document.getElementById() would make client-side scripting a much more powerful tool.
One function that I've seen Metastorm competitors do well, is email wizards. Having a WYSIWYG email editor would be really nice.
We found that OpenText MBPM held its own quite well against IBM BPM. We ended up choosing OpenText MBPM due to the analytics, complex routing, and the ease of SOA service integration. Furthermore, the ability to quickly develop simple User interfaces make this tool a daily component of our most-used toolbox components.