Effective meta data management is no longer an option, but an absolute requirement for corporations and government agencies. Companies have realized that without meta data their IT departments cannot manage their systems and their systems are not providing true value to the business end user. Organizations are implementing managed meta data environments (MME) to provide them an enterprise meta data management solution. What You Will Learn:
This presentation will give an overview of the Managed Meta Data Environment at Allstate Insurance with a focus on the utilization of meta data in the Business Intelligence environment. Allstate is a previous winner of the Wilshire Award for Best Implementation of Meta Data in a Data Warehouse environment.
By: Mark Smith, SVP Research & CEO, Ventana Research
Businesses today are trying to be more effective in their operations to optimize results. Though ERP systems have automated transactions, organizations still cannot manage themselves. Measuring and monitoring from a business process context is essential to manage operational performance and the framework for developing a process-centric view for measurement of an organization is an essential step to maximizing operational performance. Business intelligence and business process management technologies are converging to support new capabilities.
Businesses today are trying to be more effective in their day-to-day operations to optimize results. Though millions of dollars of investments into ERP systems have automated transactions, organizations still cannot manage themselves by the very capability by which the business operates business processes.
Unfortunately, ERP has been designed and implemented for system level integration and provides little to no business process support for management.
Learn BPM Best Practices from Wells Fargo and how they are using BPM to gain control of their operations and manage their process lifecycle from end-to-end. FIND OUT FIRST HAND how BPM enables their organization to identify, implement, and manage processes-level goals that support their high-level strategic corporate goals. Mr. Falk will explain how:
- To build a business case to move from ECM to BPM
- Wells Fargo is leveraging BPM Technology with their current infrastructure
- To plan for BPM implementations and how to ensure you achieve your strategic goals
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.
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.
What Oracle, SAP and others won't tell you about leveraging your existing application investments
The excitement in business process management has settled back down to the practical reality of improving performance from your business processes. Critical to achieve this mandate is to have a program and plan for process improvement. This educational session will help you understand how to apply BI and Performance Management to your business processes.
What Oracle, SAP and others won't tell you about leveraging your existing application investments
As organizations confront increasing complexity in their business environments, business leaders seek out technologies that allow them to automate, monitor, and optimize key processes across the enterprise. The ability to quickly develop business rules that not only define how these processes are executed, but also to drive customized user interfaces, tasks, monitoring, and automated processes have become key elements in business process management (BPM) application development.
By: Bill Chambers, Principal Analyst, Doculabs
For many people hearing the term “BAM,” the first thing that comes to mind is “business activity monitoring.” But for leading organizations and providers of business process management (BPM) solutions, BAM means something more; it means “business activity management.”
For too long, BAM has been relegated to the role of monitoring real-time transactions and events. But monitoring is only one part of managing the activity of your business.
