Cereal giant automates with BPM

Cereal industry pioneer W K Kellogg Foundation has chosen business process management software to automate nearly 20 paper-based processes, reports Business Wire.

The foundation says the elimination of paper and physical signatures has allowed payments to be processed faster and has drastically reduced errors during processing. It has also led to a sharp reduction in physical mail the company has to send.

Immediately after implementing the Ultimus BPM Suite, the Kellogg Foundation claims that it began to get better visibility into the activities around each funded project and a single point of access for programme management activities.

Understanding enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a recently published book written by the founder and chairman of Web service management firm SOA Software, Eric Pulier.

Understanding Enterprise SOA is written for business managers and other non-technologists, as well as IT professionals who want the big picture, reports Business Wire.

The book lays out the technological underpinnings of Web services and SOA in a business context. It reveals the business issues of such topics as SOA security, management, utility computing and business process management.

Pulier says achieving an SOA brings dramatic benefits, but requires a deep understanding of both business and technology issues. "I felt that writing a book would be the most effective way to communicate the challenges and opportunities."

Senior analyst at ZapThink Jason Bloomberg says this book should prove essential for any business professional evaluating or managing an SOA solution.