BPMS Watch - BPM and Its Enemies

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Unless a company can innovate, it will be left behind in the brave new world of total global competition. But, what exactly is innovation, and how does innovation happen? These are the most important business questions of our times. Join Peter Fingar for the Inaugural Round Table of our dedicated In...

In June 2006, BPMInstitute.org initiated a survey of its 24,000 member community to gain an understanding of how enterprises across a range of industries are pursuing business process innovation and improvement and to what degree these activities are strategically aligned to the companies' business ...

Join this webMethods Webinar as well-known BPM industry expert Dr. Bruce Silver discusses the intersection points between BPM and SOA and the advantages that a solution which integrates the two technologies into a single cohesive platform has over standalone products. Along with Bruce, webMethods VP...

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This is Part 2 of a 2-part KPI webinar series. Part 1 introduced the Rule Maturity Model and focused on the requirements and benefits of Rule Maturity Model Level 2. That's because Level 2 is the most common target level among organi...

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An enterprise pursues its mission by the formulation of policy, and these policies are implemented by rules that permeate the business. But where are these rules kept, and how do they relate to the policies that supposedly gave them birth? Typically they are buried...

Today's global enterprises are confronted with a wide array of unplanned disruptions, including events such as Hurricane Katrina and 9/11. International supply chain expert Yossi Sheffi will describe how a company building for change and flexibility throughout its supply chain is able to reduce risk...

All the current industry studies point to the need for streamlined business process and improving and simplifying process is at the top of most CEO’s strategic and technical agenda. The reality is that making process work for your people is the key to competitive advantage and business survival. Yet...

This session will address a method for managing a "Living Enterprise Architecture" (EA) over many years, based on a dynamic model, with content that is adaptable and growing as the business grows. The presentation will explain the importance of evolving and adapting an EA as the company and busines...

Business process are coming under intense analysis and the need to understand process cycle times and process activities has many organizations embracing BPM Suites to deliver agile processes and drive cost savings across the enterprise.  In fact, according to a recent CIO Insight study, BPM wa...

Organizations are working to streamline and improve their customer interaction processes in order to become closer to their customers. However, the best possible action in any interaction is dynamic and based on the changing needs of both the customer and the organization. Standardized processes are...

Too often BPM and ECM technologies are treated synonymously. However, BPM and ECM are in fact two very different technologies. While ECM technologies deliver content and document management capabilities, they do not generally provide the more relevant process-centric technologies that allow you to a...

Business people have generally been unable to grasp the language of how to best use IT to meet changing requirements, and IT departments are divorced from understanding changing business requirements. Companies often think that business and technology are two different worlds, with different languag...

The value of BPM has been clearly demonstrated in its ability to model, orchestrate and report on both human and system-based workflows. A Business Rules Management System (BRMS) takes BPM to a new level of efficiency and sophistication through its ability to automate decisions within processes. Fai...

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Realize the full potential of automating human-centric business processes. Streamline operations, enhance customer communications, and improve your organization's ability to comply with regulations. Adobe process management solutions enable ...

Please join SOAInstitute.org for the first in a series of Round Tables featuring SOA Thought Leaders.  This recently recorded Round Table features individuals responsible for driving "Services Thinking" at Sun, Software AG, IONA and BEA.  Don't miss this opportunity to hear from the CTOs a...

As more and more vendors enter the market and try to stake a claim to the BPM opportunity, a few leaders have emerged to create a new era of business process management – an era defined by solutions that combine flexibility with a full spectrum of process capabilities. An era defined by vendors part...

After responding to the first round of compliance requirements, businesses are now faced with a new set of internal challenges. They have come to realize that their control objectives are not always in line with business objectives. In fact, a number of businesses are experiencing additional complia...

In this Round Table moderated by Larry Goldberg of Knowledge Partners, Inc. (KPI), featuring James Taylor of Fair Isaac, Russell Keziere of Pegasystems, Bob Evory and Mannes Neuer of Sapiens Americas, and Sumeet Malhotra of Unisys cast their eyes to the future, and draw for us a picture of the ...

Complex and conflicting workflows in large organizations are time consuming and costly. These often lead to errors which are counter productive and slow down work processes.

Adobe's LiveCycle Workflow and Intelligent Documents make application building fast and easy for Java developers. With its f...

As long as the BPM dialogue is restricted to technologists and BPM insiders, it's likely to become just another technique for squeezing out costs and making incremental performance improvements. Taking the message to "corner office" executives places BPM in its proper business context and positions ...

The customer experience in retail stores is about to change dramatically, thanks to a new emphasis on examining business processes with an eye toward optimization. We’ll talk about the technologies and processes that retailers are using, and the new formats and services you’ll enjoy as a result.