We examine how rapidly the smart process apps market will emerge and grow over the next five years, and in what business segments.

• Smart process apps are a new software solution for collaborative processes
• Smart process apps will be mix of packaged, BPM-based custom, and vertical apps
• Smart process apps will grow by 18% CAGR through 2015, reaching $34 billion

Smart process apps are a new category of application software designed to support business activities that are people-Intensive, highly variable, loosely structured, and subject to frequent change.

This next generation of packaged apps will encapsulate current best practices in these collaborative business processes yet make it possible for the app to reflect continuous improvements In how collaboration can occur.

The emergence of smart process apps makes collaborative processes the next frontier for software.