BPM lacks agility

Many organisations lack the skills needed to implement first-class business process management (BPM) practices, according to a new report from Gartner, states Computing UK.

A superior BPM strategy will encompass a flexible system where business stakeholders can work with IT to change the solutions supporting business processes when required, said the analyst firm.

Report author Michele Cantara said rather than adopting a "waterfall approach" where IT departments figure out what they need and then implement the necessary systems, organisations need a system that continuously changes in order to keep up with the frequency of process change.

Cordys, a provider of next-generation BPM, today announced version 4 of the Cordys business operations platform (BOP), enabling organisations to design, implement, monitor and continuously optimise their critical business processes and operations within a single environment, reports IT Business Net.

Cordys BOP-4 dramatically improves the speed of change, fundamentally altering the way businesses innovate their operations.

BOP-4 introduces the concept of Total BPM, which is designed to support the way organisations operate, bring the business and IT worlds together, and deliver the flexibility required in a rapidly changing business environment.

IBM has unveiled software and services built on service-oriented architecture to help clients redefine and improve their existing business processes, says Yahoo Finance.

IBM's "business space" is a customised and continuously updated desktop view of business processes that will allow clients to monitor business objects, anticipate operational risks and act on the information.

This new role-based, collaborative BPM capability is powered by WebSphere software and built using SOA.