Lombardi Draws Up a New Blueprint

Lombardi Software Inc., a business process management (BPM) software provider based in Austin, Tex., has released Lombardi Blueprint, an on-demand collaborative process planning tool that allows organizations to map processes, identify problems and make improvements. The Lombardi Blueprint application is available as a software as a service (SaaS). Blueprint is a browser-based, process planning tool, which allows business process improvement team to collaborate on processes such as payment and supply-chain and settlement from multiple locations and add participants at any time. Processes can be exported automatically to Microsoft PowerPoint, allowing easy dissemination and communication of goals. Blueprint provides multiple views for representing processes. The mapping view is targeted towards users who need to describe activities and responsibilities and want to identify problems. The application supports detailed workflow modeling using the business process modeling notation (BPMN) for more sophisticated business analysts. The documentation view provides wiki-like capabilities for documenting processes and automatically manages revision history and audit trail capabilities for every process. The process models are built on Lombardi’s shared model technology and can be transferred back and forth between Blueprint and Lombardi Teamworks, a BPM suite. Blueprints are available as a personal account or a team account, which is licensed in groups of 10 users.