BEA buys Fuego and goes BPM

BEA‘s acquisition of BPM suite vendor Fuego marks BEA’s formal move into the Business Process Management market – and a direct response to moves already made by rival TIBCO, as well as market positioning by webMethods.

The move to BPM by BEA was expected and the choice to acquire Fuego is certainly not a surprise. Fuego has a very strong reputation in the BPM pure-play market; there is little (if any) baggage associated with the company and the technology set aligns well with BEA’s existing portfolio. Suffice it to say that BEA, TIBCO, and webMethods will now be leading a major push in the business process management market with an overlay of a broader value-proposition of unified applications for BPM (business process management), SOA (service oriented architecture), BR (business rules), BAM (business activity monitoring), CEP (complex event processing), and more.

Read the complete article by Terry Schurter at IT Analysis.