OpenText’s Metastorm business has released Version 9.1 of the Metastorm BPM software suite, Version 9.0 of Metastorm Smart Business Workspace and Metastorm’s new Business Performance Intelligence Dashboards.

Metastorm is a provider of business process management (BPM), business process analysis (BPA), and enterprise architecture (EA) software for business transformation.

The new product enhancements help organisations implement business process improvement initiatives by empowering users to become more engaged and productive, said the company.

Metastorm’s social collaboration tools provide businesses with a personalised workspace and access to top contributors.

The tools help employees find other people within their organisation with specific skill sets required to help them complete their work, the company said.

Companies can also route work to the most appropriate employee based on individual skills and workload.

Key features of the new offerings include: enhanced Social BPM capabilities; ability to find colleagues fast with individual user profiles searchable by user’s skills; and enhanced design features that support the development of more dynamic applications.

The new Metastorm Business Performance Intelligence Dashboards deliver dynamic and personalised graphical dashboards, said the company.

The new capabilities in the release enable organisations to take the lessons learned from social media and apply them to business processes, the company added.

Metastorm chief technology officer and executive vice-president Greg Carter said, "Our latest versions of Metastorm BPM and Metastorm Smart Business Workspace apply the concepts of connecting today’s knowledge workers by leveraging social networking and social collaboration tools in a way that offers a highly personalised user experience. This results in faster, easier access to information anytime and anywhere."

"The addition of the Metastorm Business Process Intelligence dashboards further strengthens our ability to offer our customers the resources to make smart, informed business decisions and drive meaningful change across the enterprise," Carter said.

OpenText Metastorm business unit general manager Robert Caldwell said, "The latest release of Metastorm BPM and Metastorm Smart Business Workspace and addition of the Metastorm Business Process Intelligence dashboards confirms Metastorm’s commitment to investing in product innovation, exploring new solutions and the ability to make great strides to achieve our product roadmap post-merger with OpenText."