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• Why Workflow Sucks

  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

• Building A Better Back Office With BPM

  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

• The Role Of Documents In Business Process Management

  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

• The Future of BPM

  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

• Bridging the IT-Business Gap With BPM and SOA (Part I)

  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

• Maximizing the Value of Business Process Management

  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

• Why Agile Business Rules Solutions Matter

  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

• The Impact of Business Process Exceptions

  BNET - 2005-11-06

  It's important for businesses to be able to handle process exceptions efficiently and effectively. There's been a lot of talk in market about business process management and process-driven integration and other approaches to automating and managing business processes. But regardless of the types of technologies that are available or how...

  Tags: Business Process, ebizQ, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Where Do Business Process Exceptions Come From?

  BNET - 2005-10-16

  For almost every process, no matter how automated, there will almost always be the need to handle exceptions. In fact, certain industries like telecom with provisioning processes or insurance with claims processes are rife with complex, multi-step processes that may involve multiple human-centered steps, all of which may have dozens...

  Tags: Business Process, ebizQ, Exception, Operational Planning, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Corporate Insurance, Finance

• Why Business Process Exceptions Are Important

  BNET - 2005-10-10

  When business processes are not automated, these types of process exceptions are almost taken for granted - they're simply another step in the expected process. But as organizations automate and move to manage their processes more closely, process exceptions can become an important discerning point between an efficient automated solution...

  Tags: Business Process, ebizQ, Exception, Operational Planning, Business Operations