The number one question from individuals exploring using Web Services and designing a Service-Oriented Architecture is, “how much is right for me?” This question drills right down to the core decisions that need to be made around going toward SOA, such as what platform? What tools should I use? What benefit will I receive? This session will look at the key issues for investing in an SOA and Web Services and provide approaches toward pragmatic adoption.
Almost every firm licenses a fair amount of package software. While these products are great for improving productivity, they don't always create new competitive advantage. It would be illogical to expect a standardized solution to deliver unique, marketplace advantages to its users. Business process innovation offers the means for strategic and competitive advantage particularly when BPM, EA and composite applications are part of the solution. What do you need to do to orient your firm for greater market success? Find out where business process innovation drives market success
Much has been written about the promise of transforming to a process- driven enterprise: better synergy between business requirements and information technology solutions, faster response to change, and improved visibility of business operations. However, there are roadblocks that prevent the design of a fluid organization that delay the realization of the promise. This panel will review the roadblocks, discuss lessons learned and present recommendations for realizing a process-driven enterprise.
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.
When we started with business rules, there was a tremendous gap in understanding between team members who knew the rules engine technology, and those who had the business knowledge necessary to write rules. That gap has narrowed, but remains … and probably always will. We have bridged it with a variety of original software tools and processes that are heading toward becoming an integrated rules management environment. Most days, the business users are happy.
Companies of all sizes can benefit from effective business process management. Emerging BPM standards are designed to improve relationships between customers and suppliers, to identify new opportunities for organization growth and to turn value chain choreography into a competitive advantage.
Organizations typically undertake periodic process improvement efforts (re-engineering, six-sigma, BPR) that are focused on specific business processes which may or may not align with the business strategy. Mature process-oriented organizations continuously manage their processes and process improvement efforts as a portfolio. In this presentation we will consider specific tools to help align the process portfolio with the overall business strategy, and what role the Process Owner plays even when there is no major improvement effort underway.
I will share some experiences and lessons learned at CUNA Mututal from integrating and applying standard methods (business process modeling, requirements management, project management, change management, and organizational design) on a large strategic project at CUNA Mutual Group. I will demonstrate how we created the “Project Process”, from five individual standalone methodologies.
The Sales & Operations Planning function balances supply and demand at the SKU/sub-SKU level to maximize in-stock performance while minimizing inventory levels. Managing this process is not about reporting on actual performance, nor is it about an application that produces a monthly plan. Instead, what is required is an environment that allows planners to continually adjust SKU/sub-SKU demand and production on a forward basis, thus tuning the business to the realities of the marketplace as they unfold.
While they sound the same on the surface, BPM software solutions don't all do the same thing. Each offering is optimized for a specific set of processes, integration requirements, human interface requirements, exception handling requirements, and performance management requirements, and each makes specific assumptions about the roles and required skills of process designers. Using illustrations from leading BPM offerings, this talk shows how to find the software that fits your particular needs.
