Gartner first introduced the term BPM pure-play in 2003 to describe tools that delivered an application-independent approach to coordinating business. BPM pure-play products provide a set of services and tools for explicit process management (that is, process analysis, definition, execution, monitoring and administration), including support for human- and application-level interaction. BPM pure-play software includes commercially available software products that have all these features:

Process orchestration engine

Modeling environment

Human-to-human workflow

Monitoring and analysis capabilities

Offline simulation

System-to-system integration

Business process performance reporting