Process design solution from iGrafx

Business process analysis (BPA) solutions provider iGrafx has announced support for the new Adobe LiveCycle platform.

"Organisations today are challenged on all fronts to achieve operational efficiencies to remain competitive, deliver products and services in a time and manner dictated by customers, comply with numerous regulatory requirements and take all available steps to mitigate operational risk," iGrafx added.

To achieve these mission critical objectives, organisations are looking to solutions to provide them with capabilities to document, analyse, improve, manage and implement critical business processes, as well as automate and accelerate the flow of business-critical information between employees, customers and constituents."

It stated that, by deploying those processes on Adobe LiveCycle Workflow, organisations would be able to streamline and secure document-centric processes that integrate people, documents, systems, business rules and web services.

CRN has reported on the beefed-up line of server-based products for the enterprise from Adobe, adding software that offers component-based building blocks for assembling workflows and analysing business processes.

The article said that, like the rest of the LiveCycle portfolio, the new Adobe LiveCycle Workflow software enables the creation and distribution of interactive documents and forms that can be filled out, routed and secured according to customer-defined rules and policies.

Adobe works with two-dozen US systems integrators that can sell and implement the LiveCycle server line. With LiveCycle Workflow - the fruit of last year`s acquisition of Q-Link Technologies - Adobe provides a graphical interface for assembling business flows.

These Q-Link process application components, or Q-PACs, actually encapsulate actions for routing documents outside the corporate firewall, performing common application integrations or sending instant messages to users` phones.

"This becomes a platform for ongoing business automation," Steve Rotter, senior product marketing manager at Adobe, San Jose, California, was quoted by CRN as saying.

"Systems integrators focused on specific verticals can wrap their IP in these Q-PACs, and the subject matter experts in the field can assemble them for their customers."