Gartner defines business processes as the coordination of the behavior of people, systems and things to produce specific business outcomes. 'Things' in this context refers to devices that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT). A BPM platform minimally includes: a graphical business process and/or rule modeling capability, a process registry/repository to handle the modeling metadata, a process execution engine and a state management engine or rule engine (or both). The three types of BPM platforms — basic BPM platforms, business process management suites (BPMSs), and intelligent business process management suites (iBPMSs) — can help solution architects and business outcome owners accelerate application development, transform business processes, and digitalize business processes to exploit business moments by providing capabilities that manage different aspects of the business process life cycle.
Gartner defines enterprise agile planning (EAP) tools as products that enable organizations to scale their agile practices to support a holistic enterprise view. These tools act as a hub for defining, planning, managing and deploying work. They also serve as an information hub for the disparate islands of metrics from the full life cycle. Just as agile is an evolution of development methodologies, EAP tools are an evolution of project-/team-centric tools. They support a business-outcome-driven approach to managing the full life cycle of agile product delivery at scale. EAP tools in this market combine data from multiple sources to enable: - Monthly, weekly and even daily incremental value delivery based on business outcomes - Support for enterprise agile frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) - Product roadmapping - Management of strategy, investments and objectives - Increased visibility into the flow of work - Management of work backlogs - Collaboration capabilities for individuals and teams - Management of cross-team dependencies - Release planning and forecasting - Visibility into the financial aspects of the work being done