Test Center Tracker: Bluespring wades into BPM waters

analysis
Jul 30, 20071 min

Diving into Bluespring: Businesss process management (BPM) can be downright complex, what with the applications, documents, employees, and customers you've got in the mix. I envision it as a determined juggler trying to keep a dozen balls (ranging from tennis to bowling), a couple of torches, and chainsaw aloft. Well, Senior Contributing Editor James R. Borck recently dipped his toe into version 4.5 of Bluesprin

Diving into Bluespring: Businesss process management (BPM) can be downright complex, what with the applications, documents, employees, and customers you’ve got in the mix. I envision it as a determined juggler trying to keep a dozen balls (ranging from tennis to bowling), a couple of torches, and chainsaw aloft. Well, Senior Contributing Editor James R. Borck recently dipped his toe into version 4.5 of Bluespring Microsoft-centric BPM suite, and he found some might fine, easy-to-use tools for managing business processes. It’s by no means a perfect solution, but it’s a promising one well worth watching.

Riding the RadRails: Strategic Developer Martin Heller is revisting open source IDE RadRails, from Aptana. Having giving it a test run, he concludes that “it retains all the strengths that RadRails had in its previous incarnation, and is stronger still because of the JavaScript support provided by Aptana.” But he’d love to hear what other developers out there think.

Back on track: As an aside, for those of you dedicated Test Center Tracker fans who’ve missed daily updates, we apologize for the lapse. But expect daily updates to resume, pointing you to the best product reviews and analyses we have to offer.