A veteran of the software industry, Holmes-Higgin has built and led best-in-class product organizations for more than 15 years. As CPO, he will oversee product management and engineering across edorasware’s entire technology portfolio of business process and case management solutions for enterprises and institutions.
“Flowable brings us a new revenue stream, world-class technologists and an exciting opportunity to build a new dynamic, global company, delivering a platform to enable organizations to meet the challenges of digital transformation,” said Kurt Amacher, edorasware founder and Chairman. ”I am delighted to have Paul join the board and bring his blend of entrepreneurship and proven ability to deliver.“
“We are excited to bring our two organizations together. The technical experience the Flowable team brings will enable us to scale to address and service the world-wide market more rapidly. At edorasware, we have a number of globally recognized brands as customers of our case management offering, and have been looking to expand our product portfolio and reach,” said Micha Kiener, founder and CTO. “The Flowable team will allow us innovate more deeply and quickly, to realize our shared passion of giving our users the platform to dramatically increase their value to their organization. Harnessing and cultivating the power of the community around the open source Flowable project ensures that some of the smartest brains on the planet are collaborating to enhance the technology.”
Paul Holmes-Higgin previously co-founded Alfresco and served there as chief product officer and vice president of engineering, and has held positions at Documentum and Resumix. His early career was in academic research applying Artificial Intelligence to document and language analysis, where he gained a PhD.
“In the same way that we want to enable organizations to be agile and adaptable to exploit opportunities, we see a window to bring two enterprise grade products together along with their world-class intellectual capital,” said Paul Holmes-Higgin, CPO, edorasware ag. “We have worked with the team at edorasware for many years and know their case management technology has proven its potential in a number of global businesses. With Flowable's widely recognized fast, scalable and dynamic Business Process Management technology, we see combining our activities as a significant multiplier of our individual capabilities, giving our customers the unique benefit of exploiting the full spectrum of capabilities from dynamic BPM to adaptive case management.”
There are five key technologies edorasware combines in its platform: case management; dynamic processes; analytics; content and artificial intelligence. In today's highly competitive environment, you need to be able to leverage best practice, but not be constrained by it, all the while meeting compliance and governance demands. Your customers need to feel you are focused on them individually and are exceeding the service they expect. edorasware provides the platform that enables you to deliver that.
About edorasware ag
edorasware digitalizes processes: edorasware, headquartered in Switzerland, enables the digital transformation of business processes. It provides innovative products, mainly in business process management (BPM) and adaptive case management (ACM). Its passion is to develop an integrated, flexible, extensible and powerful platform to use in all kinds of industries. Based on long-term experience with both customer projects and product development in the BPM domain, edorasware provides world-class BPM products with a strong emphasis on human-centric workflows. In cooperation with a worldwide network of partners, edorasware enables customers to manage their work through the fusion of ACM and BPM.
About Flowable
Flowable is an Open Source Business Process Management (BPM) technology derived from the Open Source ACTIVITI project, architected and developed by the core Flowable engineers. Support subscriptions are available immediately for Flowable through edorasware.
Our mission is to provide a digital platform that enables the transformation of work; to bring agile, adaptive and intelligent processes, content and data to drive the opportunities facing today's customer focused organizations, both inside, outside and across the firewall.
Our vision is to enable flexibility in getting work done efficiently, all the time making sure that compliant processes and best practices are followed. Love your work and make your customers love you!