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Standards and the Process Lifecycle
In the BPM world, like the world in general, standards are like motherhood and apple pie. Vendors and buyers alike are vociferous in their support. After all, standards reduce the costs of vendor lock-in, simplify training and support, reduce risk of vendor failure, facilitate component integration and reuse, support interoperability of systems and processes, expand the choice of compatible technology, and promote agility in a changing world.
Why You Need A Source Rule Repository
Businesses today are confined by budget and time more than ever, which in turn affects the projects that are approved. IT and business organizations must review each project to ensure that it will provide value to the overall business to attain business objectives.
Leveraging Business Rules in a BPM World
Barbara von Halle is the founder of Knowledge Partners, a company specializing in business rule services. Her most recent book, “Business Rules Applied” is the first book to contain a systematic approach for delivering business rules systems. It was a finalist in the 2002 Jolt Awards from Software Development Magazine.
Supporting a BPM Reference Architecture and Compliance Framework
As organizations confront increasing complexity in their business environments, business leaders seek out technologies that allow them to automate, monitor, and optimize key processes across the enterprise. The ability to quickly develop business rules that not only define how these processes are executed, but also to drive customized user interfaces, tasks, monitoring, and automated processes have become key elements in business process management (BPM) application development.
Redefining BAM
For many people hearing the term “BAM,” the first thing that comes to mind is “business activity monitoring.” But for leading organizations and providers of business process management (BPM) solutions, BAM means something more; it means “business activity management.”
For too long, BAM has been relegated to the role of monitoring real-time transactions and events. But monitoring is only one part of managing the activity of your business.
Case Study: Document Imaging and Business Process Management – A Partnership Built for Success
This presentation is a case study on how a self- administered, self-insured non-profit was able to solve an archaic paperwork document problem by placing the Fund’s workflow under the control of BPM software and replacing paper folders with electronic folders and digital images of member correspondence and other documents. Smith discusses why the Fund turned to a BPM solution and how an imaging and retrieval system was integrated into its processes. Smith offered insights into the benefits the Fund experienced since implementation.
Selection Criteria for BPM Software
An interview with Bruce Silver- Principal, Bruce Silver Associates
Dr. Bruce Silver is an independent consultant and industry analyst specializing in enterprise content management and business process management technology. He writes the monthly “Business Rules” column for Transform magazine, as well as numerous white papers and reports available at www.brsilver.com. His new report, “The Manager’s Guide to BPM Software,” provides an in-depth review of BPM technology and vendor offerings.
How to Automate Business Processes On Demand
Also Featuring: Rajiv Bawa, Business Area Executive, Software as a Service IBM Global Small and Medium Business
Those four little words, “Quick Return on Investment”, can now be music to your ears. Hear from the experts at IBM and Nsite about how the Software as a Service model is taking off and providing companies with a much faster, more cost-effective and more flexible solution with less risk.
Modernizing Applications & Retooling Business Processes Require a Coordinated Approach
I often find organizations trying to modernize application systems while concurrently retooling business processes. On the surface it would seem logical that business process redesign would precede major IT retooling initiatives, yet my experience suggests that organizations often begin modernization projects in the absence of a well articulated business process model.
BPM Best Practices – Increasing Your Odds of Success
Remember all the hype given the things that were going to revolutionize IT and integrate everything? They never fulfilled their promise. There is good reason to think that BPM is not in the same category. The new integrated BPM suites really do work across the organization and the results companies are seeing are substantial.
Vollmer is a principal analyst in Forrester’s Enterprise Applications research group.
Retooling Legacy Systems to Meet Business Process Retooling Requirements
Business analysts continue to streamline and consolidate business processes to stay competitive and lower costs. As this occurs, entrenched application systems can impede these efforts. To fully realize the goal of business process retooling efforts, organizations may need to retool the legacy applications and data structures supporting those processes.
Case Study: Business Process Excellence – Building a Culture of Excellence
Coors Brewing Company started their BPM initiative with a top-down approach that supported the company’s strategic goals and vision. The goal is to institutionalize process excellence using a common BPM language and process models for the entire organization.
Debra Boykin is a Sr. Business Architect at Coors Brewing Company. She has over 25 years of experience specializing in the area of business architecture development.
Case Study: Managing Processes across an Enterprise with BPM
Featuring: Gary Chan, Project Leader of IT, City of Walnut Creek, CA
No More Business as Usual
As the industrial age emerged, it was the marshalling of capital that reigned supreme. Capital-intensive mass production led to such success that the barons, the Carnegies, Fords and Rockefellers, are household names to this day. Then as the making of things became widespread, attracting competitors from across the globe, capital-enabled mass production was no longer sufficient. Market differentiation became the magic sauce of success. Manufacturers began to segment markets and add features to their products to appeal to those market segments.
Ready, Fire, Aim
OK – so you’re ready to deploy BPM for improved performance. Maybe you’ve even identified a candidate business process where the application of BPM principles, practices and technology is likely to yield business benefit.
So what should you do if you want to optimize your chances of success? First of all, in spite of what some might say, don’t start with technology! Starting with technology is most likely to result in the situation ‘Ready, Fire, Aim.
Sure – technology is the key enabler – but it is just that – an enabler.
The Current State of BPM Technology: A Taxonomy and Strategy
Featuring: Bill Chambers, Principal Analyst, Doculabs
The Business Value of Process Standards
Companies of all sizes can benefit from effective business process management. Emerging BPM standards are designed to improve relationships between customers and suppliers, to identify new opportunities for organization growth and to turn value chain choreography into a competitive advantage. This presentation will cover:
BPM Standards Update
ASAP is a web services protocol that can be used to access a generic service that might take a long time to complete – for example services that last from minutes to months in duration. The service being invoked might be fully automated, a manual task that a person performs, or any mixture of the two. This capability to handle both automated and manual activities is what makes ASAP particularly suited for B2B and intra-organizational service request scenarios.
Ask The Experts with Tom Davenport
Round Table particpants asked Tom their most pressing process questions in this Round Table “Ask The Experts with Tom Davenport”. Tom is the Renowned Author and Professor, Institute for Process Management at Babson College.
Solving the Enterprise Information Integration Puzzle
There are multiple types of integration problems. Information integration problems pertain to the class of problems where users need access to disparate data through the lens of the needs of business. This session will discuss a methodology and a case study of an approach toward information integration by associating common business vernacular with key pieces of data and processes.
