Gartner’s Market Guide for
Business Process Automation Tools
In 2021, Gartner replaced the BPM Magic Quadrant with the Market Guide for Business Process Automation Tools. This
new guide gives enterprise application leaders insights into the top BPA tools in the market.
80 percent of BPA customers
will use BPA tools as a process and composition layer on top of other business services and APIs.
Key BPA tool use cases from Gartner
Simple workflow automation
BPA tools enable citizen developers to build intelligent process-centric apps for simpler, shorter processes with minimum involvement from IT
End-to-end automation
BPA tools orchestrate multiple automation technologies for long-running, complex processes across departments and systems
Case management
With a BPA tool, enterprises can get increased visibility into case handling including task allocation and next-step recommendations
Service orchestration
Enterprises can automate microservices by utilizing BPA tools for headless orchestration
Gartner's BPA market trends
Hyperautomation
Vendors are turning to BPA technologies in addition to RPA for automating end-to-end processes
Vendor rationalization
Organizations are selecting LCAP, iPaaS, RPA, and ECM vendors with core BPA capabilities
Composability
The adoption of BPA platforms to build an orchestration layer to automate business processes across services is on the rise
Process optimization
Process optimization is in the spotlight as enterprises shift their focus to the performance of end-to-end business processes
Generative AI
Vendors are adding or have already added GenAI through integration with market solutions or through proprietary contextual models