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The discussion addresses whether these tools meet the needs of managers of change and business process re\u2010engineering (BPR) initiatives, and offers suggestions for future tool evolution. The focus is to highlight the differences between the often lofty claims of tool vendors, and both the real needs of BPR analysts and implementors, and the actual capabilities of the BPR tools. The BPA\/M tool market has three groups: drawing packages with templates; drawing packages with templates and some spreadsheet\u2010like capabilities; and the heavyweight BPA\/M tools proper, akin to discrete event simulators. The general strengths of such heavyweight tools include: the high price for low software complexity, the large number of confusingly similar tools, the lack of comprehensive standards, and the potential \u201cfaddishness\u201d of the tools. 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