Business Process Management (BPM) technology

Many folks that I have talked to in the past think that there is nothing in BPM Technology. I would like to examine the arguments around this statement. It’s not quite so simple to say this...

BPM technology offers an independent software layer to decouple business processes from application code and manage them separately in an integrated and transparent platform. The major advantage is the separation of business process logic from component applications involved in process execution. This makes BPM a major player in Enterprise Services Architecture by providing a much needed application integration.

Business Process Management (BPM) gives many businesses an approach that balances the architectural benefits of SOA against the cultural shift that business people are demanding. BPM embodies both a technology approach to support business agility as well as a management philosophy that promotes it.

The technology planning and selection process can be broken down into the following phases

• Information gathering
• Requirements development
• Product selection
• ROI calculation

• BPM technology is a framework of applications that effectively tracks and orchestrates business process.
• BPM solutions automatically manage processes, allow manual intervention, extract customer information from a database, add new customer transaction information, generate transactions in multiple related systems, and support straight-though processing without human intervention when needed.
• BPM allows you to automate tasks involving information from multiple systems

  The major challenge, however, is that many companies do not understand the system very well. But in the long run it has to have a clear understanding of the technology to get value from it we have to work on it...