How are New Technology Enablers such as BPM & Business Rule Engines Exposing the Root Causes Behind Business/IT Dysfunction? The root causes behind this dysfunction and how many of today's "industry best practices" for implementing business and technology change gloss over the critical factors necessary to successfully manage and implement business change in large organizations. There are key, but subtle, paradigm shifts taking place in business and technology arenas. In addition, the convergence of these changes are as a whole, greater than the sum of its parts.
This talk will provide an overview of both Six Sigma and BPM to indicate where there are synergies between the two types of programs.
BPM builds the framework to create strategic alignment, measure business processes using metrics aligned to business goals, and identify performance gaps that have a major impact on the customer and on achieving desired business results.
Six Sigma can be used as the vehicle to implement the methodology, prioritize the projects, stabilize the processes and close the gaps.
Time: 11:30 AM 6-29-2005
Changes occur rapidly at Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (OPERS), with cascading impact on the enterprise. Agility is key in responding to changing business demands, necessitating business-driven projects with centralized management of business and system requirements. Most requirements (including business rules, stakeholder needs, use cases and requirement specifications, and operational processes and procedures) are managed in separate databases within a single IBM Rational RequisitePro® repository.
Time: 10:45 6-29-2005
Documenting your organizations business processes and their business rules is critical to your organization. We have BPM tools to help us document and managing business processes but what are your options for documenting and managing the business rules? This presentation will provide some insights into better alternatives to managing your business rules.
Time: 5:30 PM 6-28-2005
WE STAND AT A CRITICAL CROSS ROAD. There is no doubt that BPM technology and BRE technology are delivering on the promises of organizational agility. Some organizations start by understanding their business processes first, adopt a BPM product, and then explore the business rules beneath the processes and the BPM product. Other organizations start by understanding critical business rules first, adopt a BRE product, and then explore the guiding business processes around the rules and the BRE.
While BPM provides organizational flow to critical business processes, the business rules behind these processes provide organizational differentiation and spark. The unique combination of BPM and BRE delivers unprecedented value and agility to organizations today. This presentation discusses the maturity of BR Technology based on a Rule Maturity Model and recent industry survey. The role of BPM in this maturity model along with sample BR applications by industry sectors provide the attendee with realistic expectations and a roadmap to success.
Featuring: Ken Vollmer, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
The side-by-side comparison is making a comeback you can line up anything from cars to televisions and compare them side by side. So why not do the same with vendor solution providers, well why not? This panel will allow attendees an opportunity to ask solution provider’s questions about their solutions live and hear what they have to say and how they stack up against the competition sitting right next to them. Moderated by industry analyst Ken Vollmer of Forrester Research, this session is sure to help you see where the similarities and differences are across BPM products and providers.
Business Process Management offers organizations the ability to significantly improve business processes, reaping improved productivity and customer service in the process. However, the same technology that supports BPM can also be used to implement composite applications and service-oriented architecture. This session will explore these additional capabilities by looking at case studies of organizations that have implemented these advanced features.
Entrenched business processes are enabled by entrenched application systems. As a result, efforts to change or retool business processes can be streamlined through the factual analysis of the data and rules embedded in these systems. This session will explain how to capture and analyze business logic to support system and business process retooling initiatives. The discussion includes data usage and business logic extraction from existing systems and mapping the results to top-down, logical designs.
Compliance with government regulations has forced organizations to look at their businesses in a new light. Leaders are beginning to leverage their compliance efforts in order to drive concurrent business improvements.
These improvements may not only help a business perform better, but may also fundamentally reinforce the primary purpose of regulatory mandates – improved transparency into business management along with bolstered investor & market confidence.
This presentation will explore the dual focus that is required in today’s marketplace.
