Business structures, especially on large enterprises, are quite stable. This stability relates to real business assets behind these structures, such as production facilities and employees. Business processes express relations between these objectively existing business objects. This implies stability of these processes. To scrap process entirely, one must sell or dismiss production facilities, fire workers and [...]
The process of intellection. While BPM is an incredible technology to describe / model / automate business routine, imagination and creativity are principal irrationalities distinguishing real business from a perfect digital machine. No doubt, well designed business machine can become unrivaled in superior delivery of predefined business outcomes. However, it will never compete with human [...]
Perfect process is an abstraction, which predefines and motivates all development of BPM. Perfect process does not exist literally in most cases. Rather, it serves as an asymptotic, which represents a reference point for any process improvement. In this sense, perfect process is a cornerstone and an ultimate goal of process mapping, analysis and governance [...]
Case is a grouping container intended to hold artifacts and operations associated certain business entity. Business practice normally deals with complex mutable structures, which have no clear and stable equivalents among classical data primitives. Case is convenient generalization to express this inherent volatility while preserving the unifying business idea behind this ad-hoc association. Case offers [...]
There exists definite psychological barrier and prejudice against BPM, both among management and workers, in perceiving BPM as too mechanical and "soulless" technology. It is important in this respect to stress crucial "human" dimension of BPM, which saves workers from enormous time losses on boring routine tasks and unlocks incredible potential for improvisation and creativity. [...]
As a part of continuous commitment to Microsoft® technologies, CaseAgile announces a new release of Enterprise Explorer™ software, which supports direct exchange of BPMN diagrams designed in Microsoft® Visio with leading BPMN process engines. CaseAgile presented a live demonstration of Enterprise Explorer™ on "BPMN IN ACTION Meet and Greet" event organized by The Object Management Group (OMG) in Brussels [...]
CaseAgile Will Demonstrate Direct Exchange of Native Visio BPMN Diagrams with Leading BPMN Process Engines As a part of continuous commitment to Microsoft® technologies, CaseAgile announces a new release of Enterprise Explorer™ software, which supports direct exchange of BPMN diagrams designed in Microsoft® Visio with leading BPMN process engines. CaseAgile will present a live demonstration of Enterprise Explorer™ on [...]
There exists one clear and exact measure of BPM efficiency in a company: labor productivity. There is also no space to wonder regarding its measurement: it is precisely calculated based on the surplus value taken from company's books. Every CFO (or even an ordinary bookkeeper) routinely makes such calculations to produce balance sheets. Labor productivity [...]
Process simulation is an essential productivity feature for any BPM software. The ability to watch a process running and quickly edit it before its deployment to production significantly simplifies and accelerates development of high quality processes. Automatic testing of processes is equally important, but it cannot replace quality visualization in simulation. Simulation can be considered [...]
An evident need for BPM arises when a company already implemented sufficient amount of individual IT solutions, such as ECM, ERP, CRM, ETL, QAS etc, and is experiencing a growing demand for coordination and alignment among these tools and technologies. Primary mission of BPM solution is metadata management, process governance and orchestration. Evidently, an organization [...]