One of BPMN’s most important elements is unfortunately also the most misunderstood. It’s called a pool, a rectangular shape that serves as a container for a process. So in that sense a...
BPM - Not for Dummies Anymore
Featuring: Kiran Garimella, Vice President, BPM Solutions, Software AG and Michael Lees, Senior Director, Product Marketing, BPMS, Software AG
Wednesday June 11, 2008
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 ...
Which BPMS is Right for You?
Featuring: Gregg V. Rock, Editor and Founder, BPMInstitute.org and Bruce Silver, Principal, Bruce Silver Associates
Wednesday June 4, 2008
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 BP...
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 functiona...
Best Practices for Building BPM & SOA Centers of Excellence
Featuring: Andrew Spanyi, author of "More for Less: the Power of Process Management", Alex Rosen, Principal, SOA Practice, MomentumSI and Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group and Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org
Thursday March 20, 2008
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...
Best Practices for Building BPM & SOA Centers of Excellence
Featuring: Andrew Spanyi, author of "More for Less: the Power of Process Management", Alex Rosen, Principal, SOA Practice, MomentumSI and Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group and Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org
Thursday March 20, 2008
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...
What is Business Architecture and Why Has it Become So Important?
Featuring: William Ulrich, President, Tactical Strategy Group, Inc. and Co-Chair BPMInstitute.org’s Business Architecture Conference Series and Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group and Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org
Wednesday March 19, 2008
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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What is Business Architecture and Why Has it Become So Important?
Featuring: William Ulrich, President, Tactical Strategy Group, Inc. and Co-Chair BPMInstitute.org’s Business Architecture Conference Series and Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group and Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org
Wednesday March 19, 2008
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.
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...
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 Business Rules.
This round table is now available on-demand. Login below to a...
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...
BPM: Improving Productivity for Call Centers
Featuring: Andrew Spanyi, author of "More for Less: the Power of Process Management" and Wilson Hughes, Sr. Systems Engineer, BEA
Wednesday January 16, 2008
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.
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...
Collaborative BPM in Financial Services
Featuring: Mary Pilecki, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research and Michelle Dufty, Product Marketing Manager, Appian
Wednesday October 31, 2007
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...
So yes, BPM is important. Maybe even revolutionary. But getting BPM right remains a challenge as practitioners in the field know only too well. We believe that in many ways, BPM platforms have outpaced BPM practice. Meaning, we are using breakthrough technology platforms to build BPM solutions but s...
Does your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system actually do what you want it to do? ERP applications were supposed to seamlessly solve all of our supply chain, order management, and deal approval processes. But these processes cross departments, people and functions, yet your ERP systems do not....
A successful SOA implementation isn’t guaranteed, it comes together when business and IT coordinate their efforts.
But bringing IT and the business together can be daunting. They knock heads. When they talk, they don’t seem to speak the same language.
To promote the cross-functional, cross-discip...
The New Frontier: Business Decision Management (BDM)
Featuring: Barbara von Halle, Founder, KPI, James Taylor, co-founder, Smart (Enough) Systems, Brian Stucky, Brian Stucky, VP of Business Rules Solutions, Tom Dwyer, VP of Research, BrainStorm Group; Moderated by Larry Goldberg: Managing Partner, KPI
Monday October 15, 2007
It has become increasingly evident that business rules are only a part of the whole puzzle of business logic in BPM, SOA, and Business Architecture. The recent book by James Taylor, “Smart Enough Systems” confirms the long advocated position of Barbara von Halle that the business is interested in ma...
So many speak about BPM and process, but so few have data on its value, a particularly vexing problem when needing to develop "buy-in" and executive sponsorship for large-scale BPM application and enterprise transformation. This presentation walks through several studies done on the value of the BPM standards in Supply-Chain, Design, and Sales and the clearly measurable benefits of in...
Wherever a business is on the continuum of process analysis, improvement, or re-engineering, the initial step is to understand how people do what they do. A process map can get you started.
A process map defines how an organization performs work: the steps involved and their sequence; who is responsible for each step; and how work groups interact.