IDS Scheer develops, markets, and supports Business Process Management (BPM) software and is widely regarded as the founder of the BPM industry. The company was established in 1984 by current supervisory board chairman and Chief Technology Advisor, August-Wilhelm Scheer as a spin-off from the Institute for Information Systems. Based on Dr. Scheer’s early Y-Model, developed in the 1980s, IDS Scheer’s ARIS product and related consulting services is the heart of the company’s technology and revenue. In 2009 it was acquired by Software AG.
IDS Scheer has a dominant BPM market-share in Europe and is considered well-positioned in the US market based on its partnerships with Microsoft, SAP, HP, Oracle, IBM and TIBCO as well as consistent financial success and numerous favorable reports from Gartner, Forrester, and AMR Research. However, the company is less well known in the US market, warranting some in the US to call IDS Scheer a “better kept secret.”
The company holds the unique distinction of being embedded in the products of SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. End-user markets for IDS Scheer include consumer packaged goods, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, papers, metals, retail and textile industries.
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