Biographical Information
Nathaniel Davidson
Senior Product Manager
EMC Documentum xCP
Nathaniel Davidson has more than 12 years of IT engineering and management experience, specializing in business intelligence, advanced analytics, visualization, business process management, enterprise application frameworks, rich client platforms and Web 2.0 development. He co-founded several startups, and headed the architecture group of a leading consulting company. Davidson is currently responsible for product management of Business Activity Monitoring and Reporting for EMC Documentum xCP.
Articles by Nathaniel Davidson
Adding Agility to BPM with BAM
28 Dec 2010
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. . . .