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This blog post provides an overview of the new features and fixed bugs of OpenText MBPM 9.5.

OpenText’s MBPM (formerly Metastorm BPM) delivers the insight, power and agility you need to make your vision for business improvement a reality. To respond to increasing competitive pressures, regulatory changes, and customer demands, companies today are looking for ways to not only increase their effectiveness and efficiency but to also become more capable of change than they are today.

With Business Process Analysis, your business can achieve results quickly by:

1. Interfacing with a more agile, intelligent business process platform that integrates the underlying applications and information
2. Providing improved business insight across process execution
3. Designing processes rapidly that deliver competitive differentiation, without the constraints imposed by legacy systems
4. Taking advantage of personalized user experiences that offer the latest social, mobile, and cloud based technologies

OpenText MBPM 9.4.2 addresses stability issues and provides support for new environments. See the Supported environments section for more details.

Enhanced SendEmail functionality

When using the OpenText MBPM SendEmail function, you can now specify a delimiter registry setting on the engine machine. Follow these instructions to make the changes manually:

Locate the relevant registry key and add the string key FileDelimiter in the registry location:

64 bit OS:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Metastorm\ework\Engine\SMTP

32 bit OS:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Metastorm\e-work\Engine\SMTP

Notes:

If the FileDelimiter registry key does not exist, the default behavior will be applied, that is the file will be delimited with "," or ";".

The recommended FileDelimiter value is “|” because Windows does not allow the default value as the file name.

There are requirments to to display PDF documents (e.g. Invoices, Purchase Orders, Incoming Letters) on a OpenText MBPM (formerly Metastorm BPM) form. There are different ways to implement this: using a PDF viewer component like Brava Viewer or TiffServer, the iFrame or the HTML <object> tag method.

We still have room in our next OpenText MBPM Foundation class. It runs April 28 - May 2 @ the OpenText office (Reading, UK).