BPMS Watch: How Much BPMN Do You Need?

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• Topic: Transactional Content Management: The Critical Infrastructure for Managing Horizontal Processes Across the Organization
• Date: Wednesday May 28, 2008 1:00 PM Eastern
• Where: Online
• Featuring: Mark Travers, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Transactional Content Management and Business Process Management, EMC Corporation

We all know how processes typically emerge in an organization. They start in one area or department and are designed to solve a specific problem. We call this the functional-centric process model; it’s characterized by transactional processes being structured, managed, and measured via the functional or departmental unit. While this model addresses an immediate, department-level...

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• Topic: Which BPMS is Right for You?
• Date: Wednesday June 4, 2008 1:00 PM Eastern
• Where: Online
• Featuring: Gregg V. Rock, Editor and Founder, BPMInstitute.org

Over the past 12 months, we reviewed 11 leading BPM Suites using a common analytical framework, and published the results using a common outline as The BPMS Report series, available for free from BPMInstitute.org. Based on that research, we now offer a comparative scoring of these offerings. Each BPM Suite was rated for both human-centric and integration-centric processes, and the...

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• Topic: BPM - Not for Dummies Anymore
• Date: Wednesday June 11, 2008 1:00 PM Eastern
• Where: Online
• Featuring: Kiran Garimella, Vice President, BPM Solutions, Software AG

BPM has evolved past the hype by delivering impressive business results. See how companies have solved business problems quickly through their BPM platform, and how some companies are pushing the envelope by taking BPM to the enterprise level.  Recognize that BPM is real, and it is happening.

Learn how BPM is an integrator par-excellence, bringing all the functions of a company...

This Round Table will describe the workshops being held at BrainStorm Chicago in April to train the attendees how to develop the essential elements that are needed to successfully justify, launch and to then evolve a Business Process Management office in your organization and an SOA Center of Excell...

Business architecture is the critical bridge between business strategic and operational planning and technology at an enterprise level. This Round Table will explain why it is becoming more important in 2008.

Business Architecture survey results will also be discussed.

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Business Decisions are the missing link joining BPM and SOA to Business Rules. The Round Table explores strategies for maximizing ROI for operational business decisions and BPM/BDM projects. It discusses the benefits attained and agility gained when organizations externalize and manage Decisions and...

Competitive pressures, poor investment returns, substantial claims payouts, demanding customers and independent agents, new regulatory challenges and complicated processes have led to increased complexity in insurance operations.  Insurance professionals must be flexible and move quickly to res...

This pre-conference session will provide an in-depth view of newer manufacturing management initiatives including CPFR®, lean manufacturing, demand driven manufacturing, collaborative manufacturing, the digital enterprise and optimized regulatory compliance. The instructor will then show how BP...

Keeping customers, attracting new customers, rapidly delivering new products, providing consistent service through multiple channels (branch office, internet, ATM, telephone) and meeting regulatory requirements is a daunting pursuit of retail bankers. This demanding proposition requires the continua...

Retailers exist in one of the most competitive environments in all of business. Customer taste and demand changes quickly, and leading retailers stay ahead of demand in order to survive. Keeping customers and eliciting customer loyalty is also an elusive pursuit.

The challenges are more than the r...

Organizations that have call centers including help desks, outbound/inbound call centers or customer service desks are increasingly using Business Process Management (BPM), Portal and Web 2.0 technologies to differentiate the service they provide and make their operations more efficient.

But where ...

Join this 60 minute web seminar as we provide the System Integrator community with information about how BPM, Portal, Web 2.0 and SOA technologies can be combined into a powerful solution that helps address critical government challenges.

Don’t miss this webinar if your customers are asking you the...

Struggling to get a grip on technology applications in the financial services and insurance space? Join leading IT research firm Forrester and Appian and as they explore modern process-based technologies and approaches.

Recent advances in Business Process Management (BPM) software coupled with prov...

Filing an insurance claim with some insurers can be frustrating. Allstate believes it shouldn’t be this way. Already a leader in the management of claims, Allstate continues to revolutionize the industry with new ways of doing business. To illustrate this commitment to continuous improvement, the company is undertaking a challenging new project called Next Generation Claim Systems that...