IBM BPM - History & Versions

IBM BPM

                    IBM BPM is a framework that leverages application development and services to provide total visibility of a process/organization structure. IBM BPM provides platform to discover new process, automation, documentation and continuous process changes to improve business efficiency and cost reduction.

IBM BPM - History

                     In 2010, IBM had taken over TeamWorks product from Lombardi. TeamWorks was re-named as WebSphere Lombardi Edition (WLE) and first release taken place in June 2010 with the 7.1 release. That is the reason at some places name begins with “tw” (Team Works).

IBM BPM - Version

                         After taken over from Lombardi, First version WebSphere Lombardi Edition 7.1 (WLE) was release in June 2010. Next version comes in industry very soon after few months release of WLE 7.1, WLE 7.2 hit market in December 2010.

In June 2011, WebSphere Process Server (WPS) and  WebSphere Lombardi Edition (WLE) had been merged in a single product and released with new name IBM BPM (7.5). WPS & WLE features are available in single IBM BPM product. 

Now in every year, IBM BPM comes with new features. Latest version is IBM BPM (8.5.6), it has been released in March 2015.