Southfield, Mich. - Proforma Corporation, a business process modeling and analysis software company, announced it has joined with business process management (BPM) providers to answer industry demand for interoperability between business process analysis (BPA) and BPM. The consortium agreed to support a common interchange format (CIF) that will facilitate the exchange of business process models between BPA tools, such as Proforma's ProVision BPMx, and other BPM solutions.

A wide range of providers are participating in the BPM/CIF consortium, including Appian, CommerceQuest, Fuego, Fujitsu, Insession Technologies, Lombardi Software, Metastorm and Pegasystems. As members of the consortium, all these vendors have agreed to support CIF by developing the CIF translators required to interoperate. The first CIF planning session was held in May and was attended by representatives of Appian, CommerceQuest, Fuego, Insession Technologies and Lombardi.

Source: Proforma Corp.