BPM Blog - BPM Articles

Understanding the need for BPM We are living in interesting times. In the blink of an eye old orders are swept away (you remember Lehman Brothers, don’t you?). Companies everywhere are being forced to improve the way they do business in order to survive and to flourish. Managers are trying to make their organisations fitter and smarter. All these changes need to be implemented at a rapid pace and with limited budgets. But how?... Read the full article

Adding Collaboration to BPM In the last 12 months, we all have seen a surge in SharePoint implementations. I think that just about every deployment of our BPM platform has included Microsoft SharePoint. From my point of view, this solution is great, enabling us to add collaboration to our BPM offering. SharePoint does have basic workflow functionality that enables programmers to build simple document approval workflows, but is missing the complexity to create real-life corporate level workflows. We usually get called in to supply the missing functionality... Read the full article

Top 5 Myths about Business Process Management (BPM) This article deals with common software myths about business process management - BPM is workflow, BPM is only for complex processes, BPM is only for programmers, BPM is expensive, BPM projects are long term projects... Read the full article

Gartner commands top business and technology priority for 2009 Gartner, the leading analyst and information technology research company has published the top ten business and technology priorities for 2009. The business priority, Improving Business Processes, is the top business priority with more than 57 percent of CIOs reporting this as one of their top five business priorites, this year. Improving Business Processes has been the number one IT business priority since its introduction to the CIO Agenda survey in 2005... Read the full article

Banking Sector looks to BPM The Financial Service Authority (FSA) called this week for banks to invest in their IT systems as part of its proposals to beef up the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, which insures customer savings in the event of a financial collapse, and made the following recommendations... Read the full article

BPM Scenarios In a competitive business environment, management of an organisation's financial assets is the key to optimal business results. Tracking expenses, managing purchased items, and focused monitoring of suppliers and subcontractors can be effectively carried out... Read the full article

Steps for successful implementation of a BPM project Implementing a BPM project follows the well defined principles and methods of any IT project, but with additional caveats: Understand the capabilities of the BPM software and what you want your project to achieve. It is important to establish clearly what the BPM software can accomplish and the benefits it brings to the organisation... Read the full article