Today’s telecommunications industry is virtually unrecognizable from the one of ten, five, even one year ago! The convergence of voice, data, content, and mobile services has created a communications mega-industry, where traditional telecom providers are vying against non-traditional competitors for market—and mindshare.
It’s a zero-sum game and the winner gets the customers and market share.
Today’s telecommunications industry is virtually unrecognizable from the one of ten, five, even one year ago! The convergence of voice, data, content, and mobile services has created a communications mega-industry, where traditional telecom providers are vying against non-traditional competitors for market—and mindshare.
Much has been written about businesses transforming into “agile enterprises.” But beyond the pie in the sky buzzwords, what does this mean for companies striving to bring world-class goods or services to the market? In a global economy, many feel as if they are in a race to the bottom – squeezing cost out of every possible angle to support increasing competition and capture channel attention. But this doesn’t seem like the path to more innovation.
Creating a unified data architecture is a key component of any enterprise SOA initiative. Rapidly building business services requires achieving a common vocabulary across disparate business systems (i.e. common definitions of "customer," "order," "product," etc.).
This Round Table will explore the available approaches to enable the rapid design of such a vocabulary. The strategic agility objectives of SOA are complemented by the similar objectives employed by MDM.
What do Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Architecture, Business Rules and Organizational Performance all have in common? Well, besides the obvious…
BPMInstitute.org and SOAInstitute.org research shows that companies are planning to marshal these technologies and methodologies together into a comprehensive strategy, platform and discipline.
What do Business Process Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Architecture, Business Rules and Organizational Performance all have in common? Well, besides the obvious…
BPMInstitute.org and SOAInstitute.org research shows that companies are planning to marshal these technologies and methodologies together into a comprehensive strategy, platform and discipline. One that will enable organizations to make better business decisions - more quickly – both in the short term and the long term.
Today's BPM users are asking for a seamless, expanded definition of BPM, now commonly referred to as BPMS, or BPM suites. Ironically, it is within this vision of horizontal expansion that something even more dramatic is taking place. Business Activity Monitoring has predictably given way to Business Event Management, which, teamed with BPM in an SOA world enables complex processing and process self-repair.
According to a recent survey in The Economist, CEOs and CIOs from over 1,000 companies worldwide agree that innovation in business processes is a greater source of competitive advantage than innovation in particular products or services.
This webcast - the fifth in a five-part series - will review the findings of BPMInstitute.org's State of Business Process ManagementSM Research with a specific focus on the issues, challenges and solutions associated with BPM-applications in the Financial Services sector. It will explain how Financial Services companies are using business process management solutions to drive differentiation and business results by more effectively engaging with agents, brokers, customers and employees.
Join us to understand how using BPM within a Digital Business Network (DBN) can drive innovation and create a competitive advantage. Forrester describes 'Digital Business Networks' as collaborative value chains, comprised of companies focused on creating timely, customer-oriented and process-centric innovations. By breaking down siloed monolithic enterprises, DBN uses a services oriented approach to accommodate change without compromising security.
How can the concept of a DBN help BPM Suites evolve, and how can BPM help evolve the DBN?
VIP Auto, Inc. has been using Avorcor's SOA4SCL (SOA for Supply-Chain and Logistics) to modernize their existing warehouse and distribution capabilities and to prepare their organization for integration with a new host system.
It’s happening in every industry: increasing regulations, demand for better, faster customer service and ever-fiercer competition. The healthcare industry is not immune to these same forces, and often these challenges are exacerbated by greater requirements and expectations of an industry that is nonetheless expected not to profit excessively from its “customers.” But, no one is lessening the strictures of HIPAA, and patients continue to ask why it is that Americans are paying more than any other country for their healthcare and getting less.