The IPA vendor Nintex acquires the BPM vendor Promapp

Nintex,  an intelligent process automation (IPA) vendor has announced it has acquired Promapp, a business process management software company which provides partners and customers new tools to better optimize business processes through a market leading visual process mapping solution. Promapp will help Nintex customers more effectively automate, orchestrate and optimize business processes across any organization from the back to the front-office, easily connecting people and integrating with the world's leading business ecosystems and apps. Promapp has become an important Cloud BPM software company with more than 500 customers. Headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, Promapp was founded in 2002 by Ivan Seselj and is co-owned by Richard Holmes. Both Seselj and Holmes are process experts from global consulting firms. Businesses and government agencies leverage Promapp to empower teams to own their processes and to drive accountability for continuous process improvement.

"Our acquisition of Promapp creates tremendous opportunities for companies to visually map and better manage every business process," says Nintex CEO Eric Johnson." By bringing together the power of the Nintex Platform with Promapp, our customers and partners can easily design, deploy and manage their business processes and address process automation scenarios that have been difficult or expensive to solve." 

Nintex plans to maintain Promapp's offices in Auckland, Austin, San Francisco and Sydney and will relocate the Promapp teams in Melbourne and London to Nintex's offices in those cities. The company plans to integrate the technologies quickly and will accelerate enhancements of the Promapp solution to benefit the company's rapidly growing customer base, which includes well-known brands such as Coca Cola, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's and Toyota.

Source: Press Release (Nintex) and post from Eric Johnson