Business Process Management - KMWorld Magazine

Traction turns to TeamPage 5.2

Dashboards for action tracking, project/case management Posted May 16, 2011

Forrester broadens its reach

Acquires Springboard Research Posted May 16, 2011

KMWorld Hall of Fame 2011: The Trendsetters

Posted May 01, 2011

The path to business process transformation

Business process transformation is hard work-involving many business skills and methodologies, like leadership, communications, business acumen and making the financial case. But at its heart, the road to transformation for the project team centers on finding the right balance of skills between understanding business needs, applying process disciplines and implementing technology... Posted May 01, 2011

Collaboration and work force management

Global 360 to enhance its persona-based BPM suite Posted April 27, 2011

Lean business process management

Integrify introduces latest release Posted April 26, 2011

ASG to acquire visionapp AG

Adds cloud integration capabilities Posted April 26, 2011

Adding Activiti to Alfresco Community 3.4

Preview release integrates workflow and lightweight BPM Posted April 20, 2011

BPM helps ensure fairness and efficiency with grant process

Posted April 14, 2011

Greek philosophers and BPM?

Posted April 01, 2011

Seeing clearly now—application performance monitoring

Quest enhances Foglight Posted March 14, 2011

Booking travel online becomes more agile

Posted March 14, 2011

Greek philosophers and BPM?

Active Endpoints introduces new product Posted March 09, 2011

KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management

Posted March 01, 2011

Enterprise BPM from Software AG

Integrated solution for full life cycle process improvement Posted February 28, 2011

A new way for BPM from Appian

Emphasizing mobile, cloud and social Posted February 09, 2011

Bank’s browser-based app dramatically cuts paper usage

Posted February 09, 2011

OpenText to acquire Metastorm

Adds BPM, BPA and EA to the stable Posted February 07, 2011

BPM Roundup

Posted February 01, 2011

KMWorld Readers’ Choice Awards

Posted February 01, 2011

BPM gets flexible

Posted February 01, 2011

Salesforce.com unveils Database.com

Posted January 07, 2011

Scintillating SharePoint support

AvePoint releases DocAve V. 5.6 Posted January 05, 2011

The Tempo of Process Innovation

Innovation. Collaboration. Mobility. Cloud. These are the hallmarks of next-generation business process solutions—and the business process management (BPM) software that will enable them. It is no longer sufficient to drive benefits at the edges; BPM must drive fundamental change and growth across the organization. Select involvement in process improvement will not radically transform a business; all employees at all levels (both on-site and in the field) must "be part of the process" in active collaboration. Finally, the cost and scalability benefits of BPM SaaS (software as a service) must be fully realized.

In short, business process management software must leverage the latest advances in social technologies and application delivery to increase an organization's tempo in responding to change and growing the business.

BPM today does some things very well. It automates repetitive processes to improve throughput and capacity. It increases efficiencies. . . . Posted December 28, 2010

Adding Agility to BPM with BAM

A business process is a series of connected events that begins with an input and ends with an output. Your business process management application uses roles, resources, business rules and more to achieve increases in process speed, efficiency and effectiveness. But these results alone may not be enough: Your customers also want consistency in the output; adaptability to changes; and always "faster, better, cheaper." To achieve maximum return to the business, don't settle for a "black box" process that is concerned only with inputs and outputs. To achieve consistency in performance, you need to establish standards that are continually measured and reported in a timely manner. Your process must be adaptable in both its execution and its design as requirements change. The process should build in and facilitate a capability for continuous improvement.

The key to achieving these additional goals is process visibility. If the process is visible, it can be measured. . . . Posted December 28, 2010

Who Thinks About BPM? Not Me. Do You?

It's inevitable that a discussion regarding business process management has to stumble over definitions. When I sit down to think about it, it's clear as glass that everybody, in some way, accomplishes BPM every day. Whether it's a formalized, codified set of practices, or just a random "that's how we've always done it" kind of thing, BPM is ingrained in every business process you can think of. Otherwise, chaos would reign, life as we know it would cease, cats would be sleeping with dogs… it would be a righteous mess.But do people think of their jobs in terms such as "business process management." Does anyone get up in the morning and say, "Better get to the office, I've got lots of business process managin' to do."

That one got a laugh from Karin Ondricek. Karin (pronounced KAH-rin) is senior marketing manager for content management and archiving at EMC Corporation. We talked for a while last week. I had planned for us to talk about the market for BPM, but we ended up talking more about the process of BPM. . . . . Posted December 28, 2010