Articles, research and white papers on Business Process Management (BPM). http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/ en-us Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:00:00 GMT Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:00:01 GMT info@pnmsoft.com info@pnmsoft.com http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com BPM Software emphasizes business user involvement in the entire business process improvement life cycle, from design through implementation, deployment, monitoring and ongoing optimization. Instead of reducing relience on employees, BPM Business Process Management software emphasizes the added value of employee activity coordidantion and making their business activities tranparent and auditable... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/what_is_bpm.html BPM is a management methodology that provides for governance of a businesss process environment toward the goal of improving agility and operational performance. BPM is a structured approach employing methods, policies, metrics, management practices and software tools to manage and continuously optimise an organisations activities and processes... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/what_is_bpm.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/what_is_soa.html Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a methodology for systems development and integration where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data with one another as they participate in business processes... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/what_is_soa.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/what_is_saas.html Software as a Service (SaaS) is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the internet... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/what_is_saas.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/bpm_governance.html BPM Governance is a set of policies and processes that set the way that the organisations business processes are run. Key elements of good BPM governance includes transparency, responsibility and accountability, and commitment to the organisations business goals... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/bpm_governance.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/bpm_lifecycle.html The steps in a BPM Life Cycle are: Modelling,Implementation,Execution,Monitoring,Optimising... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/bpm_lifecycle.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/making_the_complex_simple.html Business Process Management (BPM) is the solution that helps solve these problems. It is a business management discipline that enables an organisation to analyse, model, automate and redesign their business processes in a way that improves business effectiveness... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/making_the_complex_simple.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/cost_reduction_initiatives.html Organisations are continually under pressure to do more with less and this is especially true in organisations where IT departments are seen by the business as being unresponsive and a cost centre, rather than ensuring innovation... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/cost_reduction_initiatives.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/agility_innovation.html The SEQUENCE Platform is an Enterprise scale solution with a rich set of capabilities. SEQUENCE is highly flexible, extensible and convenient for designing, executing, monitoring and optimising business processes... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/agility_innovation.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/dynamic_bpm.html In a world where email is commonly accepted as the primary electronic corporate communication mechanism, employees often find themselves having to filter through huge amounts of irrelevant emails to find those that are really intended for them... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/dynamic_bpm.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/efqm.html The European Model for Business Excellence (EFQM) is a most widely used framework for organisational self-assessment in Europe and has become the basis for the majority of national and regional Quality Awards.The EFQM principle is that organisational performance, including customer satisfaction, is achieved through leadership driving policy and strategy, and employee teams delivering processes... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/efqm.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/kaizen.html Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life. In organisations, Kaizen continually improves all business functionality, through all the organisation departments and throughout all of the organisation hierarchy... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/kaizen.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/six_sigma.html Six Sigma is a management philosophy that sets extremely high objectives, collecting data, and analyzing results to a fine degree as a way to reduce defects in products and services... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/six_sigma.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/tqm.html TQM is a management methodology that focuses on quality, based on the participation of all its members and aiming at long-term success through customer satisfaction, and benefits to all members of the organisation and to society... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/tqm.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/bpm_blogs.html BPM Blogs are one of the best ways to hear from the top business analysts, system architects and consultants specializing in Business Process Management. It is also a great way to get each of the BPM vendors different perspectives on BPM... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/bpm_blogs.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/bpm_vendors.html Each of the BPM vendors has a different market niche and a different technology emphasise: Some are more Microsoft oriented, some are more business user oriented, some need more programmers... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/bpm_vendors.html http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/organisation_optimisation.html The ability to automate daily employee tasks using a workflow engine, enables the organisation to relocate employee resources from their current jobs to jobs and tasks that need manual intervention, thus releasing workloads and making the employee's contribution to the company more efficient... http://www.bpmsoftwarepnmsoft.com/organisation_optimisation.html