State of the Industry

A large number of workflow tools and management system (WFMS) products have been introduced in the past few years by vendors ranging from large hardware manufacturers (Digital Equipment Corp., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and ICL, to name just a few) to small software companies. These numerous vendors provide products quite diverse in their functionality, but still sell them using the same “workflow automation” label. It has been estimated that there are about 250 products with a market size of over $1B.