<p>CIO Red Hat Tuesday took a key step in its efforts to extend its JBoss middleware with the release of Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6, a comprehensive open source business process management (BPM) suite that combines BPM with business rules management (BRM) and complex event processing (CEP).</p><p>The new suite is built on a combination of BPM technology from Red Hat's 2012 acquisition of Polymita Technologies and the latest version of Red Hat's business rules platform, JBoss BRMS 6, also released Tuesday. The new suite is a platform for BPM that provides support for modeling, automating, simulating and monitoring business processes.</p><p>Together with the JBoss BRMS platform for business rules management and complex event processing, it gives organizations advanced decision and process automation capabilities, letting business users make necessary changes directly rather than requiring IT to manually rewrite application code.</p><p>Mike Piech, general manager of Red Hat JBoss Middleware, calls the new BPM Suite a significant move up the middleware stack, empowering not just developers and hardcore enterprise coders, but also business analysts.</p><p><a href="http://www.cio.com/article/749188/Red_Hat_Extends_JBoss_with_Open_Source_BPM">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140304-909107.html">Red Hat Launches Industry's Most Comprehensive Open Source BPM Suite</a> (Wall Street Journal)</p><p><a href="http://www.muktware.com/2014/03/red-hat-jboss-bpm-suite-6-now-available/22207">Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite 6 is now available</a> (Muktware)</p><p><a href="http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71397">LSD Information Technology named first Red Hat JBoss Middleware Training ...</a> (ITWeb)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dc-INBs9eNR2EJMNiW1Alse-7EjCM&authuser=0&ned=us">33 additional articles.</a></p>
