Survey highlights gaps in BPM

According to a recent survey of nearly 300 executives, major gaps in maturity remain despite growing interest in business process management as an enterprise discipline, reports FOX Business.

In terms of the Capability Maturity Model Integrated scale, most enterprises in the research are described as level two organisations that have begun to formally document their processes.

However, these organisations have yet to fully implement an enterprise-process architecture, systematically measure performance or continually improve process efficiency and effectiveness at the enterprise-level, behaviour associated with level three, four and five organisations respectively.

According to CBR, Blue-Crow, a provider of full lifecycle architecture-led software consultancy services, has entered into partnership with Process Master, a provider of business process management services.

Under the terms of the agreement, Blue-Crow will use Process Master's software to facilitate process discovery, analysis and documentation and enhance its efficiency.

The company says Process Master, which has been designed on a standards-based architecture, is a collaboration application that can be used for process discovery and the design and capture of business processes and procedures. The software's standards-based architecture helps the user to monitor and review the internal business processes in text, XML and graphical notation.

SAP is developing new business process management (BPM) tools under the code name "Galaxy" and will first release them in the third quarter, states Computerworld.

The tools include a process composer, which consists of an Eclipse-based modelling environment that employs business process modelling notation, a graphical way to sketch out business processes. It is aimed at business process analysts, as opposed to hardcore developers.

Accompanying this is a business rules management composer based on technology SAP acquired when it bought Yasu Technologies in 2007. There is also a process server, which directly executes the process models.