The Sales team wanted to increase revenue. Senior executives favored buying a CRM solution but IT suggested a process review first. A process difficulty assessment was completed and the problem processes identified. The team worked with business areas to implement...
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BPMS Watch: Analyzing and Optimizing Process Performance
The hottest trend now in BPM suites is integrated performance management. While BPMS and its workflow ancestors have always featured basic process monitoring and work statistics, the kind of performance management now emphasized is more closely aligned with metrics strategic to the business: the percentage of orders filled immediately, or conformance with service level targets, broken down by customer type. These once were the sole province of business intelligence (BI) software, but performance management analytics and real-time business activity monitoring are now being bro
Transition of a Business Analyst to a Business Rules Analyst
Who is a Business Analyst?
Business analyst studies the overall business and information needs of an organization in order to develop appropriate solution strategies. As the key liaison between business and information technology departments, the business analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting business requirements and translating them into functional system design specifications that can be successfully executed by IT development teams. A business analyst acts as the communication central between the business and the technology people.
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Can Lead to Great Improvements in Company Alliance and Partnership Results
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has caused big changes in big business with a hefty price tag. Not only must publicly traded companies document and comply with the financial reporting and internal audit control requirements of the Act, they must also continuously attest, measure and document changes of the related processes to ensure continued compliance.
The challenge of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements inside of a company is notably a time-consuming, costly and arduous task. The good news is that the internal control systems that companies are building will
Service Oriented Architecture: How to Invest Today Without Shooting Yourself In The Foot Tomorrow!
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 and Chief Architects from these organizations – we’ll debunk several myths, discuss the future of SOA and provide you with an SOA Reality Check.
Building Better Applications with Intelligent Documents and Adobe LiveCycle Workflow
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 flexible tools and business logic-embedded PDF formats, multiple work systems are streamlined and automated minus the coding.
You Need BPMS to do BPM
“To do good work, one must first have good tools.” – Chinese proverb
The acronym BPM means business process management.
Business Value of Process Standards
If you don’t have the time to listen to this issue’s Featured Archive, this article serves as an Executive Summary of the presentation, “Business Value of Process Standards” by Jeanne Baker, Director and Chair of BPMI.org and Sterling Commerce. Baker discusses the emerging PBM standards, which will help companies of all sizes benefit from BPM by identifying new opportunities for growth and competitive advantage.
BPMS Watch: Selecting A BPMS
Monthly Column by Bruce Silver, Independent BPMS Industry Analyst
Extreme Business Rules: A Vision of the Future
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 world of Business Rules two to five years out.
