Q&A with Progress Software CTO John Bates

by Janine Milne, CBR OnLine

Progress CTO John Bates discusses in a Q&A session the future of business process management  and why buying Savvion was important to company’s strategy.

Q: Why did you buy Savvion?
A: We did an exhaustive search for a BPM company that would be a perfect fit for us and we felt Savvion was that perfect fit. We’d been partnering with Lombardi for years, but they are not really an enterprise company, more departmental. They are a good bunch of people but it didn’t fit what we needed. Our customers want to be able to respond and dynamically change and react to their customers before their competition does – they are looking for operational responsiveness. …..

Q: Can we expect to see more acquisitions in this space, particularly as IBM recently bought Lombardi? …. Read the session.