Ultimus releases BPM solutions series
Ultimus, a provider of business process management (BPM), and workflow automation software announced its Web seminar series for the month of May.
Each session will focus on the value of BPM in addressing efficiency and effectiveness issues in today`s challenging business environment. Topics include compliance and business solutions management (identity management), according to a press release.
BPM-based solutions allow users to define and manage business processes throughout their lifecycles, integrate them across technologies, and embed efficiency and effectiveness throughout the organisation.
Embracing a fundamental operational change
Long-term structural trends, both in industry and within enterprise architectures, will shift the strategic focus away from applications to business processes. New business initiatives - such as cost control, information transparency or customer self-service - drive new process automation requirements.
According to Gartner`s Web site, examples of processes are customer service and support, risk underwriting, cash management, claims adjudication, compliance, product design, order management, and research and development.
The typical user organisation is new to BPM and develops multiple BPM projects along departmental lines. This silo approach limits the scope of the benefits, and implementation usually remains tactical.
BPM: Modelling the process
According to research firm Gartner, there are more than 130 vendors of BPM software, reports Computerworld.
BPM is hot because it delivers a decades-old dream: that businesspeople who are non-programmers can modify their business applications, and even create new ones, with little or no assistance from the IT department. With BPM, applications are created faster and cheaper, but because they are accurately modelled before they are created, they should not require extensive trials.
A BPM-enabled application differs from a conventional one in that it comes as part of a suite, with a toolset that can be used to examine and change the underlying process used in the application.
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