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BNET
- 2006-11-29
Many of the people involved in the field of Workflow Automation and Business Process Management BPM have argued long and hard about where these two technologies overlap, where they are different which mathematical models to use, which standards are applicable to which part of the technology stack, and all that...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, ebizQ, Workflow, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
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BNET
- 2006-11-13
Every business is essentially a collection of processes - some strategic, some tactical, but all necessary. And nowadays middle and back office processes are increasingly complex, full of deeper interactions across systems and dependent on more collaborative activities between users. Business processes are a set of coordinated activities carried out...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, Back-office, ebizQ, Operational Planning, Operational Accounting, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Finance, It Operations
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BNET
- 2006-10-10
Documents are often as fundamental to commerce as the people who participate in the process. In spite of this, modern Business Process Management BPM systems have focused largely on improving internal processes while ignoring the relationships between people, workflows, documents, and enterprise systems that extend beyond the firewall to users...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, ebizQ, Documents, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
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BNET
- 2005-11-13
The benefits of Business Process Management BPM can be remarkable. However, capturing the inherent complexities and dynamic nature of business processes is often a tremendous struggle. Work processes tend to evolve iteratively in response to various situations. Often struggles ensue when IT and business managers convene to apply BPM technology...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, ebizQ, Workflow, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Process Improvement, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Quality, Management, Software
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BNET
- 2005-11-13
As organizations move further into the integration and automation of their business processes it often becomes increasing important to automate not just the process steps, but the management of the rules that contribute and also drive the process. For some companies and organizations, however, there continues to be some uncertainty...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, ebizQ, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
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BNET
- 2005-10-02
A few years ago, many organizations turned to BPM business process management for straightforward improvements in their business processes through automation and integration. At the time, they were looking for the next step beyond traditional integration solutions or EAI products - something with more of a process-orientation. But in most...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, ebizQ, EAI, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Middleware, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management
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BNET
- 2005-09-18
The first thing to keep in mind when exploring the BPM space is the very breadth of the solutions available. BPM has been linked with everything from modeling tools to message queuing to ESBs and SOA. In fact, there's probably not a technology product on the market right now that...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, ebizQ, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Research & Development, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software
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BNET
- 2004-08-16
The successful adoption of Business Process Management BPM and its use as a new source of competitive advantage requires individual, team and organizational learning. After all, BPM isn't something a company can go out and buy - it's a way of doing business. How does a company learn this new...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, ebizQ, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
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BNET
- 2004-03-15
In the past, Business Process Management BPM and workflow technologies have been niche solutions, typically sold from a top-down perspective to business users. Mass-market adoption of these types of technologies requires a standard foundation for orchestrating services. While a variety of application server vendors have Java and J2EE components that...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, BPEL, ebizQ, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
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BNET
- 2004-01-26
Part of any process automation and management solution is having some method of defining and implementing the important and sometimes unimportant decision points within a given process. Of course, in addition to defining these business rules and decision points, a business analyst or developer has to create the high-level business...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, ebizQ, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software