Business Strategy: Business Process Management in Manufacturing

This IDC study seeks to provide a quick overview of the current state and forecast projections of business process management (BPM) software market in the Asia/Pacific or APAC, region and, in particular, some of the trends and drivers behind BPM-related technology investments in the manufacturing industry. The market approaches taken by some of the major BPM vendors are also briefly discussed.

"The strong desire for organizations to constantly optimize their business processes to support growth during expansion and to streamline operations and reduce costs during recession is making the BPM software market almost 'recession-proof,'" says Chris Zhang, market analyst, IDC's Asia/Pacific Application Deployment Software Research.