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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | Austin, Texas |
Key people | Brian Cooper, Founder, Startup CEO & Chairman Eric Hanich, Founder, Startup CTO Rod Favaron, CEO, chair Phil Gilbert, president Jim Luttenbacher, CFO, Olivier Gachot, CRO |
| Products | Business process management software |
Lombardi Software was an enterprise software company based inAustin, Texas. Lombardi Software createdbusiness process management (BPM) software and was founded in 1998. It was acquired byIBM in 2010 when it had 220 employees.[1]
Lombardi Software was founded in 1998 by Brian Cooper and Eric Hanich in Austin, Texas. It was the first "Pure Play" BPM software vendor to market. It specialized in business process management from its founding. Unlike other "stack vendors", Lombardi did not sell products or services outside the BPM industry. Lombardi lodged a number of Patents for the innovation created in TeamWorks,[2] but with a change of management were not followed through with.Phil Gilbert, President, was, for a period, Chairperson of the Object Management Group's (OMG) BPM Steering Committee which managesprocess management standards such asBPMN. At IBM, as of 2015, he was general manager of design leading a project to make design central to IBM's program of developing new products based on consumers'needs.[3]Phil Gilbert has played a key role in IBM's efforts to focus product development on design.[3]
Lombardi was the first BPM vendor to create a tool, Lombardi Blueprint, based onWeb 2.0 practices. Compared to traditionalbusiness process modeling tools, Blueprint is a web-based application with wiki, shared whiteboard, and chat capabilities. It was one of the first "Business applications" based onWeb 2.0 technologies and methodology.
There were two products created by Lombardi:
Lombardi Teamworks – Lombardi's primary product – abusiness process management suite (BPMS). This tool was designed to create, optimize, and manage executableworkflow diagrams.
Lombardi Blueprint – This tool is described as a process documentation and discovery tool.