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Innovate Over ERP with Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, and Enterprise Social Computing: In this free white paper, learn how to unlock the hidden potential of SAP and other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to improve agility and responsiveness. Discover how the right mix of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), and Enterprise Social Computing can dramatically increase the return on...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Operational planning, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Business process automation, Social networking, Enterprise software, Web services, BEA Systems Inc., social computing, ERP, SOA, BPM, business process; White papers 2008-04-21
Business Process Management Implementation: A large pharmaceutical firm was experiencing difficulties and delays in reviewing, approving, and distributing their monthly incentive compensation reports due to a process that was overburdened with manual tasks, email based workflow, and lack of process information. Business process management was identified as a solution and the client hired BusinessEdge...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Enterprise software, Sales force management, BPM, incentive based compensation, business process, incentive, e-mail; Case studies
Successful Process Improvement Requires the Right Mindset: To best take advantage of the power of BPM technology, enterprises first need to achieve a certain aptitude and the right attitude for understanding and improving the firm's large business processes. BPM is not a trendy technical fix for problems. It is a discipline and involves seeing business operations from...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, BPM, process improvement, business process; White papers
4 BPM Success Stories - Budgeting, Supply Chain, Hotel...: Companies are turning to Business Process Management (BPM) to gain efficiencies in their processes and remove needless costs. In this paper the authors share four mini-case studies of businesses with global operations that applied BPM to add value to customers, automate workflow and cut inefficiencies by eliminating non-value-adding processes and...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, BPM, business process, budgeting, supply chain; White papers
SOA Needs BPM: BPM is becoming a comprehensive solution that automatically models, monitors, simulates, and redesigns processes to provide competitive advantage. Today's BPM suites enable an operational environment of integrated human and automated workflows that can adapt to events and operational outcomes. The end result increases the flexibility in business operations. The business...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Enterprise software, BPM, SOA, competitive advantage, monitor, environment, information technology; White papers

BPM and Legacy Systems: Legacy systems are key parts of many organizations. They often drive the mission-critical applications that businesses depend on. Replacing them can be both costly and risky. Business can preserve and extend legacy systems by moving to a service-oriented architecture. Developing a model that accurately captures the organization's business processes is...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Hardware upgrade, Strategy, Enterprise software, BPM, legacy system, SOA, business process, tool; White papers
Process Pioneering: This article outlines that a business process management frees companies from functional silos, fuels enterprise agility, and focuses on results. It reveals that to take advantage of today's sophisticated BPM approaches companies need to explore the BPM concept from a strategic, enterprise wide perspective. Those that get it right are...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, BearingPoint Inc., BPM, business process; White papers
How to Calculate ROI for Your BPM Project: With the need for higher productivity and ultimately greater profitability, many organizations have begun to adopt Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives to continuously improve their processes. This is particularly prominent when new products and services are introduced into the organization, thus resulting in the need for current business processes to...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, BPM, business process, ROI; White papers
The Basics of BPM Project Planning: Determining how planning will be performed is the first step in project planning. Short duration projects need to have a clear set of goals and deliverables, a specific timeline, skilled resources, and identified project dependencies. Larger projects involve more, such as budget planning, quality planning, communication planning, process management and...; Tags: Enterprise software, Process Management, BPM; White papers
Breaking Down Silos With BPM: What's the route to maximum enterprise wide performance? Ultimately, it's the path of openness. That answer may sound like something you'd expect to hear from a mystical guru, but it's rigorously pragmatic. In an open enterprise, the various branches of the organization share information seamlessly with one another. Instead of...; Tags: Enterprise software, Penton Media Inc., business performance management, BPM, barrier, performance, network, software; White papers
Building BPM Team Consensus: Implementing a Business Process Management software suite always requires an individual to lead a team. When team's members interact - and no matter how well the BPM team leader can facilitate - opinions of the individual team members will inevitably differ and the team may end up deadlocked, compromising the...; Tags: Team management, Business process automation, Operational planning, BPM, team, business process, leader, software; White papers
BPM: Where Do Web Services Fit In?: Business Process Management (BPM) software integrates applications, like a CRM system, with a critical business process, streamlining information flow and boosting processing power. When combined with Web services - one of the IT industry' hottest areas - the software capitalizes on online technology's ability to distribute application resources and customer...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, Enterprise software, BPM, business process, CRM system, Web service, CRM, Web, benefit, software; White papers
The Road to Compliance?: Using BPM to Navigate: To be successful, organizations today must operate smarter, faster and more effectively while concurrently reducing costs. To achieve this, many organizations are turning to Business Process Management (BPM) solutions to help them immediately respond to changing objectives, reduce operational costs and streamline processes.; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, BPM, business process; White papers
Making Business Process Management Work: First, BPM needs to take an enterprise business view. Only in that way can a person identify the major business processes that define a company, including their inputs, outputs, key sub-steps, measures of performance and interdependencies. All of that needs to grow out of a customer-centric view of the company,...; Tags: Operational planning, sustainability, BPM, compensation, business process, performance, job; White papers
Business Process Management (BPM) - What Is Business Process Management?: The phrase Business Process Management (BPM) refers to a set of activities an organization implements to optimize its processes. Business process management also encompasses software tools designed to assist firms in achieving process optimization. Thanks to BPM's purpose in linking human activities with disparate technology systems, BPM is proving a...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, BPM, business process, tool, software; White papers
Maritz Travel: Business Process Management Helps Manage Constant Change: Maritz Travel is a global leader in incentive travel management - the 110-year-old firm provides companies with meeting facilitation, special events and incentive travel programs. Early in 2006, Maritz began actively seeking a BPM solution to better control its processes. Problems included a lack of consistency in processes and the...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, BPM, incentive, business process, leader; Case studies
Business Process Management (BPM) Software Solutions: Business process management software solutions - often called "Suites" - are one of the hottest areas in Business Process Management (BPM). At the moment, about two dozen companies offer business process management suites, which feature a jumble of tools, templates and frameworks. The arena is complicated even more by the...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, BPM, business process, Software Solution, tool, software; White papers
How to Select a Business Process Management (BPM) Project: Selecting the right business process management project can have a tremendous effect on the business. If done properly, processes will function more efficiently in 3 to 12 months, employees will feel satisfied and appreciated for making business improvements and ultimately shareholders will see the benefit. If project selection is done...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Strategy, BPM, business process, shareholder, benefit; White papers
BPM Roles and Responsibilities: Implementing Business Process Management (BPM) within the organization will require new job roles and possibly even a new organizational structure. That's the guidance offered by Gartner Research Director Michael Melenovsky in a presentation on staffing and structure in the process-driven organization that he gave at a Gartner conference. A major...; Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, Enterprise software, BPM, Gartner Inc., Process Management, organizational structure, staffing, job, information technology; White papers
A Business Process Management (BPM) Communication Strategy Is Essential: Project leaders, when embarking on a new process management project, need to be aware of the importance of establishing a communication plan when developing and validating a team charter. A finely executed Business Process Management (BPM) project can suffer disappointing results if an efficient mechanism is not already in place...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process automation, Team management, Enterprise software, charter, BPM, business process, team, Process Management, business case, leader, strategy; White papers