BPM - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Study Group automates admissions with cloud BPM

  Study Group is moving its admissions process into the cloud as part of a larger strategy to move away from bespoke systems over the next two to three years.

• Red Hat Extends JBoss with Open Source BPM

  Red Hat is extending JBoss up the middleware stack with a new business process management suite that gives organizations advanced decision and process automation capabilities.

• IT Service Management Tools Help Airline Fix Glitches Faster

  Mapping technologies to key business processes helps IT group prioritize fixes when problems occur.

• The benefits of cloud-based BPM

  In 2011 Gartner's Jim Sinur predicted that business process management and the cloud would be the "real thunder." He stated that moving operations to the cloud would free up money and efforts for businesses, and those organizations would be remiss to ignore BPM.

• Telstra speeds IP telephony activations with BPM

  Telstra has reduced the time of its order-to-activation process for its Telstra IP telephony service by 70 per cent after implementing business process management (BPM) software by Pegasystems, a Telstra official told the Gartner BPM Summit yesterday in Sydney.

• Business Process Management Provides Agility in Lean Times

  When financial times are tough, the capability to streamline business processes, improve efficiency and achieve agility would appeal to any company. That's why firms today are increasingly finding new and sometimes unique ways to use BPM tools.

• SOA Grows Up -- and Out

  Not too long ago, IT organizations turned to service-oriented architecture primarily as a way to integrate enterprise applications. But now large companies are using SOA to create components that can be combined and reused as services across multiple applications.

• Think Tank: Tips for a successful Business Process Management implementation

  When business and IT leaders collaborate and improve end-to-end business processes, the resulting benefits are far greater than routine cost reductions.

• Fed Govt looks to lift transport and cargo supply chain security

  The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government is on the hunt for a business processes management solution to help it better manage air cargo and transport security.

• How BPM brought IT and end users together

  In 2007, NACCO Materials Handling Group (NMHG)--a manufacturer of warehouse trucks and forklifts--was using a manual system of spreadsheets and signatures to track design changes in its production line. Yet the company soon learned that its lack of an automated process was allowing for missed signatures, leading to some defective designs. Additional costs incurred from product recalls forced NMHG to explore a new option: a product lifecycle management (PLM) implementation.

Whitepapers about BPM

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  Competitive review of BPM in the Cloud

  This report focuses on the cloud-based BPM offerings now being delivered by many BPM vendors, in particular those that offer Platform as a Service BPM to complement their on premise license based solutions. ·PaaS provides ways to mitigate shortfalls in BPM, provides cost-effective usage-based funding and requires little in the way of support ·In order to anchor any assessment of BPM PaaS offerings, it is important to appreciate the most prevalent use cases ·This paper offers a vendor review with regards to cloud computing characteristics, BPM functionality and solution extensions

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  Strategic business process management in the cloud

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  Optimize business processes faster with IBM Business Process Manager on Cloud