White Papers

Savvion BusinessManager provides a unified and easy to use tool “Process Modeler “for modeling, simulation, and analysis of business processes, with a searchable repository.

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.

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.

Savvion BusinessManager (SBM) is a comprehensive Business Process Management System (BPMS) that helps organizations to manage the entire lifecycle of their business processes from modeling and design, to integration and automation, to deployment and execution, to measurement and optimization. SBM provides its own fully integrated tools for every stage of the process lifecycle. Savvion's leadership in BPM is validated in the marketplace by organizations that use it to manage many of their mission-critical business processes, and by industry analysts who consider Savvion a leader in the BPM market.

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.

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.  

In the 1990’s, workflow vendors created quite a bit of confusion in the market when trying to define workflow and how it could best be utilized. Today, that situation is being replicated in the BPM industry. Ask 10 different vendors to define BPM or BPM suites, and you will likely get 10 variations of the definition, even though all vendors use the same basic terminology to explain it. Organizations need help sorting through this confusion in order to discover why a BPM suite is a different, and more important, application for process improvement.

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.

Although this guide is meant to stand by itself, it is even more powerful when combined with the Lombardi Blueprint process mapping tool.  For a 30-day free Blueprint trial, please visit http://www.lombardi.com/getblueprint.

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.