White Papers

Andrew Spanyi  and John Lojek

Justifying cost - whether for daily business operations or for the technology used to support them - is a constant requirements for competitive industries. Business Process Management (BPM) technology has reached a point maturity to clearly show an impressive rate of return.

Over the years, as a result of working on many BPM (Business Process Management) initiatives worldwide, we have realized that many processes have project characteristics, demanding a unique approach in their management. We refer to these processes as Project-Oriented Processes (POP). BPM and PPM (Project Portfolio Management) systems each address the requirement of managing POP only partially. A single solution that provides the combined functionality of both BPM and PPM can alone meet the requirements fully. Extending a BPM system to include PPM functions can
therefore offer significant benefits.
Savvion’s comprehensive BPM System has been enhanced to:

• Combine the process and project definition functionality into a very simple and intuitive tool.
• Provide PPM functionality out-of-the-box.
• Meet the requirements of project-oriented processes that current BPM systems cannot meet.

21st Century Pain Points: It seems the more technology transforms the way you run your business, the higher the bar of customer expectations is rasied, and the faster the pace of change accelerates.

In today’s economy, business process improvement is the #1 tool to cut costs.  Many organizations use lean BPM to meet this need. This study profiles three enterprises that saved $100,000s in time and money with lean BPM technology.

First Generation Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) have made great strides towards proving the power and value of externalizing business rule logic, and managing Decisions as critical corporate assets.  Still, shortcomings in 1st Generation BRMS ease-of-use and limitations in performance scalability have left the true potential of Business Rules unrealized.  With a code-free, model-driven architecture, Next Generation BRMS overcomes these shortcomings and fulfills the order-of-magnitude improvements in ROI, automation project time lines, agility, and business control that have been the promise and potential of Business Rules.

The mantra of today’s business environment is “build for change”, driving many process improvement initiatives. Businesses must realize, however, that the decisions within the business processes are at least as critical in the search for agility, since the decisions change more frequently than the processes. Combining business rules management and business process management provides that agility by allowing the decisions, and their underlying rules, to be changed independently from the processes, often in real-time by business managers. This white paper examines the intersection of business rulesmanagement and business process management: what they are, how they interact, and why this is important to the agility, accuracy, cost and compliance of your business processes.

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The purpose of this white paper is to compare conventional business rule techniques with the process-centric business rule paradigm. This white paper describes how Savvion BusinessManager captures and implements process rules.

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) programs like Six Sigma and Lean have created over 100 billion dollars in savings and unleashed break-through opportunities in buisness and organizations of all sizes and types, But for many reasons, these methodologies have for the most part been implemented independent of enterprise information systems, severely limiting the reach of effectiveness on CPI.

You have decided to invest in a BPM project deployment and you are eager to get started. But before you hit the ground running, you need a plan. This paper is intended to give you some helpful advice in order to structure your first BPM project for success … and avoid disaster.