Gartner commands top business and technology priority for 2009 is Business Process Improvement

London, January 23, 2009 -- Gartner commands top business and technology priority for 2009 is Business Process Improvement.
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), 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% 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.

Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research for Gartner EXP said:
"In 2009, executives face challenging global economic conditions that have not existed for more than 50 years. This environment is reflected in IT budgets, priorities and strategies as one third of CIOs reported no change in their budget from 2008, while 46 percent reported a slight increase, and 21 percent reported a cut in IT budgets."

Solution: BPM Software - automating your business processes

BPM & workflow software provides organisations with strategic technology capable of creating and executing cross-enterprise business processes. Workflows can be deployed, monitored and continuously optimize cross-enterprise functionality within a mixed environment of people, content and systems.

BPM & workflow software improves productivity (automated workflows reduce the time spent on manual tasks), improves visibility (workflows enable managers to see what is happening with business critical processes at every point along the process, and at any moment in time), enables faster business reaction to change (workflow software enables organisations to react quickly and smoothly to market changes through process modifications) and improves accountability (monitoring time to execute business functions creates productivity measurement and continual process improvement.

"It's time for CIOs to develop business process improvement capabilities as part of the core of IT," said Gartner's Mr. McDonald. "This will enable them to respond to executive expectations that see business processes as important to business performance, as closely associated with application systems and as a responsibility of the CIO and IT."

BPM & workflow software delivers integration, automation, and business process management solutions to a range of financial services. These industry-specific solutions provide a flexible, scalable, and reliable platform that enables businesses to be more agile and connected. As a result, managers are empowered to shorten approval cycles, integrate operations with the different organisational departments, share information in real time, and more easily communicate with customers.

Business process management (BPM) solutions integrate across legacy systems, as well as provide visibility into end-to-end financial processes, enabling managers to have comprehensive real-time business intelligence.

PNMsoft has a comprehensive BPM offering that provides developers, architects and IT professionals with the tools, technologies, framework and guidance for building and maintaining BPM solutions and provides business users with personal productivity software that can help your organisation increase productivity, lower costs, and promote organisational agility by streamlining and optimising business processes.

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