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Vendor Landscape Plus: Business Process Management (BPM) Suites

It's not an automated process.

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Your Challenge

  • Business Process Management (BPM) has become a catch-all for business disciplines and supporting technologies ranging from workflow, e-forms, process modeling, process re-engineering, simulation, and activity monitoring, making BPM suite selection an onerous task.
  • Many BPM suites overlap in features with ECM, CRM, and BI, increasing the risk of overbuying BPM.
  • Both BPM in the cloud and accelerated growth of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) may provide alternatives to buying a full suite of BPM tools.

 

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Storyboard: Develop a Business Process Management Strategy

Organizations avoid BPM when they don't understand how BPM manages the lifecycle of a process, with technology supporting that lifecycle ONLY where it makes sense.

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BPM Maturity Roadmap Tool

Use this tool to gain quick insight into your optimal Business Process Management (BPM) roadmap, based on a survey of overall organizational characteristics. Answer questions relating to people, process, and technology, and then find out where your organization needs to go and how to get there.

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BPM Opportunity Assessment Tool

Use this tool to inventory and prioritize your processes for the Business Process Management (BPM) implementation. The tool will assess which processes offer the greatest opportunities for BPM improvement at the least cost.

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BPM Benefits and Costs Analysis Tool

Use this tool to assess the dollar value of Business Process Management (BPM) benefits and costs. Based on project characteristics, the tool will estimate the net value of each of three implementation paths. Choose the path that promises the greatest value.

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Enterprise Apps Planning: Construct User-Driven Business Process Teams

Recent Info-Tech research finds that business process modeling efforts led by end users and business managers produce more successful enterprise application projects. Learn how IT departments with user-driven modeling build effective business process teams, and about the best practices they use to accelerate the success of these teams.

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Business Process Analyst

The Business Process Analyst's role is to devise and design business process requirements for all IT-related business, financial, and operations systems critical to core organizational functions. This includes researching and analyzing data in support of business functions, process knowledge, and systems requirements.

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electronic forms, BPM, workflow, Business Activity Monitoring, business process management, e-forms, simulation, rules engines, process engineering

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It's not an automated process.

Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Business Process, Workflow & Forms Automation

  1. Develop a Business Process Management Strategy
    Treat BPM as a repeatable process, not as a technology.
  2. Vendor Landscape: The Right eForms Solution
    If process is a buster, eForms will automate.
  3. Select a Case Management Workflow Solution
    When e-forms aren’t enough and BPM is too much.
  4. Vendor Landscape: Business Process Management (BPM) Suites
    Design your workdays with a “suite” solution.
  5. Implement Business Process Management
    Realize the full potential of your business processes.
View the full Solution Road Map