Founded in 1977, APQC is a member-based nonprofit research firm that provides benchmarking and best-practice research for approximately 500 organizations worldwide in all industries.

The Association of Business Process Management Professionals is a non-profit, vendor independent professional organization, dedicated to the advancement of business process management concepts and its practices. ABPMP is practitioner-oriented and practitioner-led.

Business Process Trends provides a primary source of news and information relating to all aspects of business process change, focused on trends, directions and best practices.

BPM Enterprise publishes Practical Business Process Management articles, research and advice for BPM.

BPM Institute is a Peer to Peer Exchange for Business Process Management Professionals.

Prosci's BPR Online Learning Center is a comprehensive directory and resource guide for business process reengineering teams. The learning center offers an index of articles from around the world, an online tutorial series, benchmarking studies, yellow pages for BPR resources and information on reengineering toolkits and templates.

BrainStorm Group integrated marketing solutions include proprietary conferences & seminars, custom seminars, event management services, custom publishing, and peer to peer exchanges.

The Business Performance Management Magazine is dedicated to the subject of business performance management.

BPX defines the concept of the Business Process Expert, details a five-part process lifecycle and key analytics, and boasts the following features: training courses, downloads and demonstrations from seminars and workshops, discussion forums, blogs, and a wiki.

DiveIntoBPM.org intend to leverage the Business Process community by providing high quality free training material as well as reliable, non partisan, information about the Business Process Management standards and associated technologies.

IQPC provides business executives with tailored practical conferences, large scale events, topical seminars and in-house training programs, keeping them up-to-date with industry trends, technological developments and the regulatory landscape.

Object Management Group (OMG)

The Object Management Group is an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications.

Catalog of OMG standards related to BPM

Catalog of OMG Business Strategy, Business Rules and Business Process Management Specifications providing the OMG business modeling specifications.

OASIS is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards .

The OMG Certified Expert in Business Process Management (OCEB™) is a professional certification program developed by the Object Management Group (OMG).
The OCEB™ program consists of five examinations, granting five Certifications. Above the single Fundamental level, the program splits into two tracks - one Business-oriented , the other Technically oriented.

The goal of the SOA in Action Virtual Conference is to provide organizations with real-world actionable advice and best practices in implementing their SOA solutions.

The Value Chain Group (VCG) is an independent, not-for-profit, global organization with membership open to corporations, academia, research institutions and governmental offices. The cornerstone of the organization's activities is the Value Chain Operations Reference model (VCOR) instituted to share and develop Value Chain perspectives, strategies and best practices.

The Workflow Management Coalition is a non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors, users, analysts and university/research groups. The Coalition's mission is to promote and develop the use of workflow through the establishment of standards for software terminology, interoperability and connectivity between workflow products.

On this web site you will find detailed descriptions of "patterns" for the various perspectives relevant for process-aware information systems: control-flow, data, resource, and exception handling.

The World Wide Web Consortium develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.