Business process management (BPM) is a category of software application sweating from the heat generated by the spotlight of attention. No surprise when you consider the importance of managing, refining, and reengineering the very business processes that multimillion-dollar enterprise software automates. As BPM software evolves, the best of this class of application is likely to blossom into multiple points of functionality. Stay focused on the following functional modules as the bare minimum needed to constitute BPM software that offers any real value: