BPMN has played and plays very positive role in popularization of BPM in general and its wider adoption. As any practical and democratic movement, often far from academia, BPMN is used by many companies to solve their practical BPM problems. This natural usage alone should result in a gradual evolution of BPMN where it will [...]
Best practice is a template or experience accumulated in previous BPM implementations. Any work can be started from a ground or by using an existing experience. As a rule, using previous experience is much more productive than starting from the ground. In this sense best practices in BPM can be considered as a sort of [...]
Business typically uses standard tools and solutions but configures and adapts them to own specific. Same situation is with business processes. As a rule, business does not start from a ground but reuses already existing patterns already established for a specific field or industry. In this case we have an implicit use of process templates [...]
Many businesses fail to meet their strategic goals simply because they do not use best BPM practices. BPM is exactly an instrument for aggregation of essential business logic and metadata, which, on a higher level, appeals to the accurate establishment of the ultimate business identity and strategic goals. We believe that primary BPM role is [...]
We do not consider BPM as one stop GUI for daily user activity. Rather should be is an ultimate visionary platform, which serves to alignment of all real processes and transactions. In this role, BPM more serves for metadata aggregation and a reference guide than for real time control of operations. Users need not to [...]
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is just one aspect of Business Process Management (BPM). Ideally, Business Process Management should stay in the center of all enterprise consolidation and improvement initiatives by providing common reference point for all other enterprise systems, both in terms of their internal processing and interactions in cross-system processes. Therefore, ideally, BPM should [...]
Enterprise Process Hub is a corporate business process portal giving a centralized view into all business entities and relations existing in your enterprise landscape. It naturally combined model explorer, process navigator, document manager and method composer with semantic search over all business entries, full process inventory and powerful process publisher. Elaborate report designer gives incredible [...]
Disruption, if understood as an antonym to continuous development, is an inherent feature of any business activity. Companies, products and projects raise and fall, same as humans and every living being. BPM industry arises as an attempt to understand and, to some extent, control and improve principally chaotic business processes. In this sense, BPM industry [...]
BPMN View is a simple free tool to view and print business process diagrams in a popular BPMN format. Full conformance to the latest version of BPMN 2.0 specification by OMG. Import models from all major BPM vendors Strict validation of the model according to BPMN specification. Arbitrary scaling and zooming view of most complex diagrams. Support [...]
Enterprise Explorer offers a simple and intuitive way for professional business process modeling on Microsoft platforms. Enterprise Explorer instantly transforms an individual Visio® workplace into a powerful multi-user platform operating on a basis of centralized process repository, which opens a way to true process agility through structured relational queries and facilitated process transformations. New release [...]