Getting the Process of BPMS Right: The Need for an Implementation Methodology

Many people understand that BPMS Technology is important and maybe even revolutionary. However delivering BPMS solutions remains a challenge as practitioners in the field know only too well. In many ways, BPMS platforms have outpaced BPMS practice. What that means is that while we do have the cutting edge technology platforms to build BPMS solutions, the process of doing so still uses the old ways of IT.

So how do we do BPMS right?

Many people understand that BPMS Technology is important and maybe even revolutionary. However delivering BPMS solutions remains a challenge as practitioners in the field know only too well. In many ways, BPMS platforms have outpaced BPMS practice. What that means is that while we do have the cutting edge technology platforms to build BPMS solutions, the process of doing so still uses the old ways of IT.

So how do we do BPMS right? In this session we discuss:

We will present our BPX methodology which is a structured approach to addressing the full lifecycle of delivering BPM and SOA based solutions.  BPX consists of a set of templates, best practices, and metrics that have evolved over the past 5 years of delivering BPM and SOA solutions for a variety of industries including Financial Services, Telecoms, Hi-tech Manufacturing and Government. We will also discuss the necessary elements of a BPMS platform that supports today’s agile organization. Who are the organization participants that need to be empowered, and what skills are needed?

Featured Speakers:

Scott Rich, General Manager, North America, AuraPortal

Scott Rich has over 30 years of experience in the business application and high technology field including work with both multi-national Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial start-up companies, serving in leadership roles in sales, marketing, professional services, business development, and product management. Before becoming Head of AuraPortal Headquarters in USA he has held vice president of sales and marketing and business development positions with Infor Global Solutions, Lilly Software Inc., National Transaction Network, Inc., and director level marketing, business development, professional services and product management positions with Dun & Bradstreet Software, Geac, Wang Laboratories, Inc., Computer Associates International, and AHP Software GmbH. He is also a graduate of the University of New Hampshire.

Kewan Khawaja, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Techlogix

Kewan Khawaja is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Techlogix, a global consulting and IT services company that specializes in delivering BPM, BAM, and SOA solutions.  Kewan has contributed to the development of Techlogix’s platform-tuned BPMS implementation methodology that has been applied successfully at multiple Fortune 500 companies to implement complex business solutions in 12-16 week lifecycle, on a fixed cost and zero schedule variance basis. Kewan’s special interest is the rapid convergence of BPM, Master Data, integration and Business Intelligence in delivering breakthrough performance information architectures for large enterprises.  Kewan also provides consulting expertise to enable enterprises in adopting a culture of continuous process improvement by helping them set up BPM Centers of Excellence.  He holds an MS in Information Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.