White Papers

Where do we start? Every company considering an investment in Business Process Management
(BPM) practices and technology asks this question. How do you pick the process that best
addresses corporate objectives, current problems, and feasibility concerns? To answer this
question, you must engage people from every part of your business. You must be able to
facilitate conversations about goals, responsibilities, problems, and, of course, processes. And
these conversations must ultimately result in prioritization of projects and processes that
everyone agrees have the biggest impact for your business. This is called process discovery. It is
a crucial capability for your organization. In fact, process discovery is most crucial for companies
that have committed to BPM as the question quickly evolves to – what do we do next? Answering
that question is essential to on-going success with process management.

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.

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.

Improving Business Process Management (BPM) has become a top priority for companies in the last two years. A recent survey of more then 1,400 CIOs revealed that the top business priority identified by their comapny was business process re-engineering to adopting new process management.

This paper is intended for groups who want to make the business case for investing in BPM to drive
process improvement. It provides an overview of the areas of benefit that companies can expect
from BPM as well as concrete examples of value. It also compares the use of BPM to alternative
approaches for driving process improvement. Finally, this paper provides a basic introduction to the
costs associated with a BPM initiative. 

This white paper highlights how Business Process Management (BPM) can successfully
identify and improve business processes based on how people work. The paper also
illustrates the enabling role that Savvion BusinessManager™ 7.5 plays in making BPM
successful in real world situations.

This technical whitepaper focuses on how business mashup technology delivers lean BPM via collaborative process-centric web applications inexpensively and quickly. Develop applications in hours or days, deploy in minutes and get your ROI faster.  

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.

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.