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December 20, 2018
OpenText MBPM - a rapid development wonder
We use Metastorm across several departments in our organization. It is a great tool for automating tasks and streamlining workflows. Other people within our company use Metastorm to map business processes as well as to identify the impact of business process changes with IT systems. It is also helpful for the process of workflow creation.
- Integration into third party applications
- Rapid Development; allows developers to quickly build and/or change workflows
- Powerful user interface design
- High degree of scalability
- Lack of a graphical user interface email editor
- Auto creation of later activities in model viewer would be nice in order to quickly generate outcome scenarios
- Built-in reporting is somewhat limited
July 06, 2018
Powerful, easy to use with a few limitations
Everyone uses Metastorm on a daily basis. We do this to develop applications for resale and by using it internally to stress test these applications. We use it to front CRM information, hold client configuration information, workflow support tickets, and are developing opportunity management and project management applications. We currently have 7.6 and 9.3 installed as some of our clients are still using older versions.
- Complex routing of tasks based on calculated criteria
- Linking between tasks and accessing relevant information
- Organising, scheduling and prioritising
- Different views for different people
- The integration with Office.
- Reporting - the functionality is quite limited. Of course, we can use SSRS on the database but better-embedded reporting would be good.
- Using the eRaiseFlag functionality (getting one folder or workflow to influence another) can be slow on a busy system.
OpenText MBPM was used for mapping business processes. It was used to identify and quantify the impact of business process change alternatives and connected business capabilities with IT systems.
- Diagnoses and highlights errors and inconsistencies for correction based on BPMN standards.
- Support different views of the process from Swimlane perspective, system interactions, process to process dependency, process to attributes, process to rules.
- Able to publish processes per custom defined templates or formats on the fly.
- Changes to a common element are automatically made to every use of that element on all diagrams (insert, update, delete).
- Be able to perform a Google type search as a user type name in text field.
- Auto creation of next activities in model viewer to quickly generate happy path scenario.
- Community Collaboration - Support of external process participants (ex: business partners) that have limited or no IT infrastructure, social process communities such as Salesforce.
August 23, 2014
A software developer's view on Metastorm
Metastorm has found wide acceptance in our organization streamlining workflows and automating tasks. We use it across many departments, and are continually designing new processes. It is uncommon for a week to go by where I am not approached by someone with an idea about how Metastorm can improve their work experience.
- Rapid Development: Metastorm is designed to allow developers to quickly build (or change) workflows. Business Logic, rules and regulations change quickly in today's world and being agile about software changes keeps users productive and engaged.
- Customization: While Metastorm provides many pre-built controls useful during rapid development cycles, it also provides a rich .NET framework which can be used to customize the experience. This provides a nice balance between ease of development and detailed customization.
- Flexibility: I've evaluated many workflow solutions, and most are restrictive in form design or branching options. Metastorm closely approaches a true state machine architecture allowing for complex workflows and rich user interfaces.
- 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.
Metastorm is used across our organization for business process management and workflow creation.
- Ability to customize workflows
- Integration into third party applications
- Ability to use both a GUI and code-based interface to create business processes
- This is a difficult question to answer as I've only had experience with a dated version of Metastorm
- The newest version may have features that remedy issues I have experienced with 7.5
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About OpenText MBPM
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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