Intalio BPMS Value Proposition

Organizations looking to implement BPMS, Intalio BPMS platform offers the Community Edition to be used for free, while it does not provide the source code for this, never the less it is a complete BPMS platform, not just the designer.
Based on the open source BPEL engine, workflow extensions, and BPMN modeler, Community Edition is a complete J2EE BPMS, including a full Eclipse-based BPMN process designer supporting data mapping and simulation, a rule engine, ESB using Mule,Servicemix, Celtix platforms, multiple integration adapters, metadata repository, and a full Business Activity Module (BAM) suite.

The free full BPMS platform offered under the community addition runs on Geronimo, the Apache open source app server and the MySQL database.

Unlike competitive free offerings like Oracle BPEL Manager, not only is the development environment free but so is the production environment.

The Intalio suite includes some third party components like BAM. Normally, customers have had to go to the major vendors with six-figure license fees using the traditional software business model built up by these vendors.

Intalio (and its partners) stay in business by offering fee-based support (similar to the Linux model), in the range of three to eight thousand dollars per CPU per year for most of the Community Edition.

From what Opensoft has heard around business and government bodies, that most CFO’s are finally glad to hear there is an alternative, that does not cost the earth and the source code is available across the community rather than in the hands of and has fully demonstrated the Enterprise strength and reliability of the Intalio BPMS platform to handle millions of process transations daily with little or no downtime in the system.

Opensoft has had several interviews with key business and organisations, with the feeling that while the price is right, business and organisation need to make sure that their mission-critical process is not at risk using an open source BPMS offering.

Intalio offers the Enterprise Edition, which allows the BPMS to run on any J2EE app server and DBMS as well as LDAP and ERP system connectivity. Enterprise Edition is not free but it is also not costly.

The real benefit is once you have all your processes running , stable and change management with the community edition (i.e. running millions of transaction processes a day), if you need to move to the Enterprise edition you can prove the payback is real. It’s basically a services not software license upgrade. The BPM solution doesn’t change.


It’s not even a port; you just redeploy files from the Geronimo environment to WebSphere or BEA,Jboss and that is all. So you have real-time execution of your POC or production ready process models already running without a glitch.

Those companies that are looking for a complete BPMS – modeling and simulation, BPEL engine, human workflow, business rules, ESB, integration adapters, metadata repository, and BAM, Portal, Identity access management should look at the total offerings that Intalio has.