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BPM software offers
an
extreme Return on Investment that converts
compliance-related expenditures into an investment,
reducing costs, making your company more competitive.
The
Difference Between BPM and Workflow
 Workflow
is automation focused, there is no way you can
tell if the process is optimum or beneficial,
so you may be automating a bad process. There
is no analysis. There is no improvement. Workflow
does not address human interactions, business
conditions, or market conditions as they change.
BPM does. For Business Process Management, automation
is a given, and the focus is on continual process
improvement.
Workflow
is a local solution. It is specific. It is not
a life-cycle, collaborative or a business process
solution. You can use workflow to improve your
process, but it is too costly, and too slow.
Operational
savings of approximately 10-20% can be realized
when people take advantage of BMP to coordinate
and improve the applications that are routinely
used to run their business. However, not all BMP
applications are equal.
BMP
applications fall into several different generations:
- First
Generation – Developer Solution - You needed
to be a programmer to make this work.
- Second
Generation – Business User Solution - May
have overcompensated by giving too much control
to the users, without enough emphasis on developer
needs. Frequently implemented with proprietary
adapters that provide system-to-system data
integration at a very low level, that is not
connected to the business level. This inhibits
flexibility.
- Third
Generation – An Integrated (Round-trip)
Solution that is Application Independent,
gives equally powerful tools to both developers
and business users and can exchange data easily.
(Not possible before XML.) Provide
real-time process tracking and auditing.
Request
detailed objective information about BMP vendors.
Here are some of the other advantages of effective
Business Process Management software:
- Ability
to integrate with existing systems without
changing them.
- View
the exact change of events that is being
(or has been) followed.
- Create
graphical process models that can be modeled
by a combination of all stakeholders including
business analysts, business process owners,
developers and management.
- Improved
processes create competitive advantages--this
is particularly beneficial for companies
that must respond in real time. Real
time End-to-end visibility and control,
including critical metrics.
- Provides
process analytics - what can be done better
in the process - how do we implement significant
competitive advantages, simulate processes
and eliminate bottlenecks.
- Facilitates
cross-application integration.
- Assures
that what is written is actually done.
- Facilitates
automating processes as much as possible,
assuring very low deviation from defined
processes.
- Facilitates
integrating manual processes with automated
processes--with monitoring, auditing, reporting,
ability to change quickly and effectively.
- Provides
visibility to manage processes that span
organizational and application boundaries.
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