Look for TIBCO to make two major announcements on Tuesday—the introduction of a new version of TIBCO iProcess Suite and the debut of the latest generation of TIBCO Business Process Studio, version 1.1, which will be available free.TIBCO iProcess Suite, version 10.5, includes real-time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) capabilities. They enable customers to avert process problems and take advantage of business opportunities.

TIBCO iProcess Insight, a wizard-based product, lets businesses define key metrics and examine the status of inflight processes. Other additions to the BPM suite are enhanced usability features, new graphic audit trail functionality, and advanced-form building capabilities. It will be available starting on Tuesday.

TIBCO Business Process Studio, version 1.1, a unified business-oriented modeling environment based on Eclipse, is being offered for free to the public. It will be the first fully functional, standards-based process-modeling studio being offered at no cost to BPM users. It will be available starting on Tuesday as well. The modeling environment eliminates barriers to entry for users.

In related activity, TIBCO will launch a community to help users and analysts with BPM implementations. Forums monitored by TIBCO engineers and video tutorials to help with common problems and guide users through implementations will also be part of the community. It is designed to help non-technical users get the most out of the BPM Implementations.