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Process Product Watch (PPW), as the name implies, provides its members with the results of continuous proprietary research into new tools and products that support Process Management.

Content is the tangible form of an organization’s knowledge assets. Managing these assets is a complex challenge, especially when the assets are in different formats, affect multiple aspects of the business, and often physically reside in numerous locations.

When it comes to choosing a BPM solution, it’s the core requirements for your organization and your deployment that matter

In an increasingly competitive environment, a company’s success depends on its ability to achieve efficiencies through effective management of its processes.

For many years there has been talk an enabler of business; how the technology infrastructure that is in place has to work towards the strategic aims of the business. The reality of IT and business is vastly different. The disparity between technology and business has been so great that no allencompassing solution has been available. Within certain defined areas, technology has helped reduce costs, although some might argue that the costbase has simply been shifted, but technology as a total enabler has still fallen far short of expectations.

Today’s IT challenges are defined as much by what is in place already as by what might be missing. We have lived through the “killer app” era, having spent the last two decades building islands of automation with packaged software. But the legacy left by these systems is an integration problem that today consumes the lion’s share most IT budgets.

This publication will serve as the voice of the BPM Community and is designed specifically for business and IT leaders charged with leading their organization’s process innovation efforts. Additionally, BPM Strategies will facilitate the development of an accepted Business Process vocabulary to be utilized by organizations at large.

Hosted applications are nothing new. Application Service Providers (ASPs) made their meteoric rise (and crashing fall) in the late 1990s, as an offshoot of the Internet Boom. The premise was to provide enterprises with the full features and functionalities of applications such as customer relationship management, sales force automation, and supply chain, without the overhead of having to install, manage, and upgrade the solutions.

Specifying process maps for complex business processes can be a time-consuming effort that produces hard to understand process maps and documentation. Ultimus has written a white paper to describe its patented technology solution to this problem.