The benefits of BPM (business process management) reach from the mail room to
the board room and beyond.
BPM, with enhancements enabled by Web services, provides tactical benefits
that significantly enhance application creation and extension, while
delivering strategic benefits to companies that leverage BPM methodology and
reinvent themselves as process-managed enterprises. Tactical Benefits of
BPMBPM systems employ graphical tools to connect existing IT assets, speeding
applications and sophisticated workflow creation. These tools bring business
users closer to their own business processes, from which they had been
precluded previously. Extended at the process level, processes created with
BPM systems are much easier to customize and maintain than the embedded
processes in their ERP and legacy systems counterparts. BPM implementations
have been shown to reduce ap... (more)