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.
Web Enabling Self-Service Business Processes
Every one of us can recount stories of projects that dropped into a black hole or got caught in red tape. How we submitted an application that fell through the cracks. How cross functional projects were not completed well or on time. How, after repeated phone calls, we were asked once again to state the original problem.
These stories relate to people-intensive processes—processes that involve subjective decision-making, human coordination, unanticipated exceptions and are integral to virtually every organization.
Adaptive Discovery: Accelerating the Deployment and Adaptation of Automated Business Processes
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.