The story of BPM got more exciting this year as the recession hit the peak – almost all mainstream BPM vendors posted impressive results. As the year comes to a close the news of Lombardi being acquired by IBM has pushed up the excitement around BPM further and there’s been a tremendous buzz about this announcement. 2010 is going to be a very important year for BPM and is likely to be marked by increase in market size, hard consolidation and rampant re-positioning of all players in the market…the times are changing…and how!