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OpenText MBPM

OpenText MBPM
Formerly Metastorm BPM

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What is 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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What is 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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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is OpenText MBPM?

OpenText MBPM Video

The first video in a 3 series demo by an individual.

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OpenText MBPM Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

IBM Business Automation Workflow are common alternatives for OpenText MBPM.

Reviewers rate Process designer highest, with a score of 8.1.

The most common users of OpenText MBPM are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Metastorm has become an essential tool for organizations looking to streamline their workflows and automate tasks. Users across departments rely heavily on its automation capabilities and connectors to enhance their work experience. The software is widely accepted within the organization for business process management and workflow creation, with multiple departments utilizing it to design and implement new processes.

Metastorm is used on a daily basis by everyone in the organization as a versatile development platform. It is instrumental in mapping business processes, quantifying the impact of process changes on IT systems, and stress testing applications. Users appreciate its ability to automate tasks and streamline workflows, making their work more efficient and productive. From fronting CRM information to managing client configurations and handling support tickets, Metastorm's range of applications extends to developing opportunity and project management systems.

Furthermore, Metastorm enables users to approach others with ideas on how the software can further improve their work experience. Its versatility means that it is helpful across several departments, ensuring smooth operations throughout the organization. Whether it's automating tasks or assessing the impact of process changes on IT systems, Metastorm proves invaluable in creating efficient workflows that drive productivity across the board.

  • Easy to use for developers: Users have found Metastorm to be user-friendly, especially for developers. They appreciate its intuitive desktop client and the ability to personalize workflows.
  • Good balance between ease of development and customization: Reviewers mention that Metastorm offers a well-balanced approach to development and customization. It provides pre-built controls for quick development while also allowing developers to utilize the extensive .NET framework for customizing their experience.
  • Flexible workflow solution: According to users, Metastorm stands out among other workflow solutions in terms of flexibility. It closely aligns with a true state machine architecture, enabling the creation of intricate workflows and dynamic user interfaces.

Difficult to Understand for Business Stakeholders: Some users have found the tool difficult to be understood by business stakeholders due to its requirement of deep technical knowledge to create proper diagrams. This has resulted in a lack of effective communication and collaboration between technical teams and business stakeholders.

Convoluted User Interface: Users have mentioned that the user interface of the tool is convoluted and subject to frequent changes with new releases, making it challenging to navigate and use. The constant updates disrupt familiarity and productivity, requiring users to frequently adapt to new interface layouts and features.

Limited Reporting Functionality: Several users have noted that the built-in reporting functionality is limited in scope and customization options. This limitation hampers their ability to generate comprehensive reports tailored to specific business needs, forcing them to rely on external tools or manual workarounds for advanced reporting requirements.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Peter Green | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Good - Decision branching, Access to multiple external data sources, Prioritisation of user tasks, Keeping documents with workflows, and Ease of development and speed to make it live.

Less Good - Forms with lots of dependencies between the fields and Troubleshooting in some instances.

Poor - Ability to act as a repository for template forms and Reporting.
Process Engine (8)
37.5%
3.8
Process designer
90%
9.0
Process simulation
80%
8.0
Business rules engine
N/A
N/A
SOA support
N/A
N/A
Process player
N/A
N/A
Support for modeling languages
N/A
N/A
Form builder
60%
6.0
Model execution
70%
7.0
Collaboration (1)
50%
5.0
Social collaboration tools
50%
5.0
Reporting & Analytics (2)
55%
5.5
Dashboards
70%
7.0
Custom reports
40%
4.0
Content Management Capabilties
N/A
N/A
  • The development of the ticketing system has enabled us to greatly improve customer relationships
  • The scheduling and allocation of the tasks has reduced both the number of open tickets and the turnaround time to resolution
  • Management information from the system has improved decision making
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.
15
Sales, Customer Service, Support, Development, Administration and Finance.
1
SQL Skills
Metastorm development skills
Business process design and understanding
  • Help Desk Ticketing
  • Works Order Management
  • CRM
  • Unstructured reminders (for self or others)
  • License Key generation and management
  • Password safe and audit of access
  • Product development lifecycle management
We believe there is a market amongst our client base for the functionality OpenText BMP can address.
Harish Rajput | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
OpenText MBPM is well suited for rapid application development where process workflows are well designed in a detailed environment. A servicing organization could benefit from being able to manage and design complex case management processes and applications. It is not suited for the automotive industry where complex custom engineering processes exist within product engineering (vehicle) and manufacturing plants.
Process Engine (8)
100%
10.0
Process designer
100%
10.0
Process simulation
100%
10.0
Business rules engine
100%
10.0
SOA support
100%
10.0
Process player
100%
10.0
Support for modeling languages
100%
10.0
Form builder
100%
10.0
Model execution
100%
10.0
Collaboration (1)
90%
9.0
Social collaboration tools
90%
9.0
Reporting & Analytics (3)
100%
10.0
Dashboards
100%
10.0
Standard reports
100%
10.0
Custom reports
100%
10.0
Content Management Capabilties (1)
100%
10.0
Content management
100%
10.0
  • Positive: Able to provide scalability from capabilities to processes and applications for each business domains that allowed decommission of legacy unused applications and to eliminate waste and overhead cost.
Metastorm was used to meet specific client needs. Ease of use and navigation was one big factor
15
Process design team
2

BPM Architect

Systems Engineer

  • Simplify parts procurement suppply chain
  • Perform vendor selection
  • Manage case management
  • Custom procurement application
  • Contract approval process with external business partners
  • Support case routing
  • Community collaboration and feedback loop
  • Integration with ERPs, crm
  • Web portal and search analysis
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Analyst Reports
Client desired features, usability, technology stack etc.
None
  • Vendor implemented
Great customer service for an API support related query
No
I had a query related to custom API that I needed to integrate with Salesforce. I received exceptional service.
  • Process design
  • Reporting
  • Simulation
  • Simulation
  • Validation
  • Attribute search
Yes, but I don't use it
Although it is intuitive to use it does require training
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