BUSINESS FIRST enables BPM to take a huge leap forward, with the flexibility of changing processes and extending application rules.
BPM (Business Process Management) is about modeling and automating company business processes. This concerns not only core business production (manufacturing, telecommunications, networking, creation and launching of new products, financial accounts and banking management), but also but also administrative functions, such as purchasing or personnel management. You start by modeling the progressive steps involved in processing a request.
Once defined, processes are executed by a BPM suite (BPMS). The automation of interactive processes between players (whether human or system) thins down the workload, reducing wasted time and errors, while ensuring compliance with company procedures.
In addition, automatic dashboards display real-time progress of individual or combined work cases, to facilitate monitoring activity from different perspectives: strategic, operational, performance…
This sharing of process information improves communication between different stakeholders: managers, CIOs, users, BPM experts, account executives, department heads, etc.
Business processes are formalized by means of graphical models with eeasy-to-use tools.
The process model not only defines all the process steps but also sets of associated parameters, including clinical aspects (different stages), business rules (alternative parallel choices, processing loops), organizational (roles and assignment of tasks to users) and temporal (alarm management and processing times), not to mention the data and key performance indicators (KPI).
Business process modeling is not only for documentation, optimization and organization, but also for automation.
Recognized as a solid Human-centric BPM solution by Forrester Research, W4 provides all necessary software modules to describe enterprise business processes, their automation and supervision and to integrate these with other components of company-wide information systems.
To support a wide variety of data formats, our BPM module offers open architecture technologies, including API functions needed to connect with existing software components, with ECM systems (Document Access Layer), connectors (Java and. NET) and an optional unit for programming graphical workflow definitions (SystemFlow).
BUSINESS FIRST enables BPM to take a huge leap forward, with the flexibility of changing processes and extending application rules.
Gartner analysts consider the merger of BPM and application composition using the concepts of BPM as the beginning of a lasting change in the design of information systems that are more compatible with Web 2.0 and SOA (December 2009, "Composition and BPM Will Change the Game for Business System Design").
Business processes describe who, when and what. Such requirements are easily scoped and simplified with a BPMN graphical composer and by using built-in wizards to define human or automated steps, roles, assignment rules and routes.
Working prototypes deliver immedidate value to the business and trigger off useful feedback.
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- BUSINESS FIRST: June 30, 2011
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