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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
- 2006-10-10
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
- 2006-05-11
The starting point is to recognize that the graphical notation for process modelling known as BPMN is on the way to universal adoption. BPMN is generic enough to cater not only to BPM techniques for business automation, but also to more longstanding workflow techniques for the support of processes in...
Tags: Technique, BPM, Notation, ebizQ, BPMN, Productivity, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Software
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BNET
- 2006-04-16
IT and Business camps have been co-operating from the opposite banks of the same river for decades. They make a decent living by ferrying customers from one side to the other by co-owned ferry that they have aptly named 'Enterprise'. Even though the ferry looks pretty modern and is described...
Tags: BPM, River, SOA, Consulting, ebizQ, Outsourcing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Automation, Strategy, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Web Services, Software, Management
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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
- 2005-07-31
With technologies such as BPM and business rules, it is possible to consider much broader automation of business decisions and polices than ever before. And broader automation of decisions not only improves their enforcement but lowers costs, since automated decisions are typically faster than manual ones. More importantly, from the...
Tags: BPM, ebizQ, Automation, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Management
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BNET
- 2005-07-24
Processes like deal management, forecasting and demand planning just to name a few may be triggered inside of an enterprise application, but they require an orchestrated effort between the "Front office" and the "Back office" to be performed properly. So, how does a person get everyone to effectively participate in...
Tags: BPM, ebizQ, Enterprise Application, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Software, Management