Decisions Included in Forrester Adaptive Process Orchestration Landscape

PR Newswire and Marketing Technology News report that Decisions + ProcessMaker announced inclusion in Forrester Research's "Adaptive Process Orchestration Software Landscape, Q2 2026," a market overview covering 35 APO vendors. The Forrester report is quoted in the coverage defining adaptive process orchestration (APO) as "an automation platform that uses AI agents and nondeterministic control flows, in addition to traditional deterministic control flows, to meet business goals, perform complex tasks, and make autonomous decisions." The company press release describes the platform as unifying workflow automation, an enterprise-grade rules engine, and agentic/process orchestration to preserve visibility and control.

PR coverage highlights governance, auditability, hybrid execution models, and human-in-the-loop decisioning as key APO requirements identified by Forrester. The announcement includes a direct quote from Giles Whiting, CEO of Decisions + ProcessMaker: "Being named in Forrester's Adaptive Process Orchestration Landscape is an important moment for Decisions + ProcessMaker and for the market," and he adds that organizations "need one place to coordinate AI agents, people, systems, and decisions with enterprise-level governance to make automation safe, transparent, and scalable."

Editorial analysis: Industry reporting frames APO as a response to growing use of agentic AI and heterogeneous automation stacks. Observed patterns in similar market definitions show analysts emphasize governance and audit trails when nondeterministic AI elements are placed into operational workflows. Vendors in adjacent categories, process automation, decisioning engines, and orchestration platforms, are being evaluated on their ability to combine deterministic rules with agentic, nondeterministic components while keeping auditability.

Editorial analysis: For practitioners assessing automation vendors, the APO category formalizes evaluation criteria that include nondeterministic control handling, human-in-the-loop controls, and governance capabilities. Observed patterns in comparable vendor evaluations suggest procurement teams will increasingly request demonstrable audit logs, hybrid execution flows, and controls for agentic behavior before approving production deployments.

Editorial analysis: Observers should track Forrester's vendor criteria and any published vendor comparisons to see which platforms demonstrate end-to-end governance for agentic workflows. Also watch for third-party case studies or technical whitepapers that document hybrid execution, audit logging, and human-in-the-loop interventions in real deployments, since those artifacts address the governance concerns emphasized in the report.