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Business Definition for: Process Management

  • the operation, control, evaluation, and improvement of interconnected tasks, with the goal of maximizing effectiveness and efficiency

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Business Process Management (BPM) - What Is Business Process Management?
The phrase Business Process Management BPM refers to a set of activities an organization implements to optimize its processes. Business process management also encompasses software tools designed to assist firms in achieving process optimization. Thanks to BPM's purpose in linking human activities with disparate technology systems, BPM is proving a...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, CTQ Media, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers
Business Process Management (BPM) Software Solutions
Business process management software solutions - often called "Suites" - are one of the hottest areas in Business Process Management BPM. At the moment, about two dozen companies offer business process management suites, which feature a jumble of tools, templates and frameworks. The arena is complicated even more by the...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, Software Solutions Inc., CTQ Media, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
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Addressing Agent Autonomy In Business Process Management
Business Process Management BPM has arisen as a new trend in information technology that aims to unify disciplines such as Process Modeling, Simulation, Workflow, Enterprise Application integration and Business-to-Business integration into a single standard. Initiatives have emphasized process models that can lead directly to automated process execution, e.g., the Business...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, Agent, York University, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Real Estate, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2004-06-02
Exploring Business Process Management Systems And The Impact Of BPM On Developers
Business Process Management BPM is becoming popular among business users to capture business process requirements in the form of a process model. The business team can then use existing methodologies to improve the process. The Business Process Management System BPMS can help technology teams execute the process modeled by business...
Tags: Business Process, Developer, BPM, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2006-08-11
BPMN and Business Process Management: Introduction to the New Business Process Modeling Standard
The core of this paper is BPMN, which stands for Business Process Modeling Notation. It is the new standard for modeling business processes and web service processes, as put forth by the Business Process Management Initiative. BPMN is a core enabler of a new initiative in the Enterprise Architecture world...
Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, BPM, BPMN, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2003-09-17
BPMN and Business Process Management: An Introduction to the New Business Process Modeling Standard
This article introduces and discusse in detail BPMN, which stands for Business Process Modeling Notation. It is the new standard for modeling business processes and web service processes, as put forth by the Business Process Management Initiative. BPMN is a core enabler of a new initiative in the Enterprise Architecture...
Tags: Business Process, Business Process Modeling, BPM, Business Process Trends, BPMN, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2004-03-01
Business Process Management 101: The Basics Of BPM And How To Choose The Right Suite
Business Process Management is gaining adoption, but just what is Business Process Management BPM and how do BPM systems work? This paper clears up some of the confusion and helps you choose the right product with a six-step guide to selecting a BPM suite. Information Technology IT giants are either...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, United Business Media, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2008-01-01
Savvion and Shared Insights Host Webcast on How Business Process Management Fits Into an SOA Strategy
Independent Research Analyst and Savvion to Highlight the Importance of Talking Process Management to Sell SOA Vision SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Savvion([R]), the industry's leading business process management BPM company, today announced that it will host a free webinar on using business process management as the key to getting...
Tags: Shared Insights Inc.
Research articles 2007-02-20
Gartner's Position On Business Process Management, 2006
Business Process Management BPM is a management discipline that requires organizations to shift to process-centric thinking, and to reduce their reliance on traditional territorial and functional structures. BPM has evolved from past management theories and practices, such as Total Quality Management TQM and Business Process Re-Engineering BPR. BPM requires changes...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, Gartner Inc., Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2006-02-16
Oracle Workflow - Oracle E-Business Suite Process Management
Oracle Workflow together with Oracle Workflow for Java (OW4J), Oracle's next generation Java 2 Enterprise Edition based business process management solution that enables enterprises to model, extend, configure, and automate business process flows. This white paper provides an overview of the process management architecture of the Oracle E-Business Suite and...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Workflow, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Software
White papers 2004-12-01
The Evolution of Business Process Management as a Professional Discipline
The evolution of Business Process Management BPM as a customer-centric and process centric approach to improving business results has entered its third wave over the last thirty five years in the form of Business Process Management BPM. Yet, there is much more work to be done before BPM is broadly...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, Business Process Trends, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2005-06-01
The Evolution of the Business Process Management as a Professional Discipline
The evolution of Business Process Management BPM as a customer-centric and process centric approach to improving business results has entered its third wave over the last thirty five years in the form of Business Process Management BPM. Yet, there is much more work to be done before BPM is broadly...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, Business Process Trends, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2005-06-01
Current Projects of the Workflow Management Coalition and the Business Process Management Initiative
The Workflow Management Coalition WfMC and the Business Process Management Initiative BPMI have been working together on common standards that will facilitate the broader use of workflow tools and technologies and the use of XML business process languages. In this paper, the terms workflow and Business Process Management BPM are...
Tags: Business Process, Business Process Management Initiative, Workflow Management, Identitech, Operational Planning, Business Operations
White papers 2003-04-06
Reschooling The Corporation For Business Process Management
As companies recognize the need for change, they will refocus on their key business processes that directly provide benefit and value to customers. This shift will be the result of management taking a business process view of the company rather than the traditional functional view. To implement this change, managers...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, It Operations
White papers 2005-08-17
Service Oriented Architectures For Business Process Management Systems
The integration of research in the area of Service Oriented Architectures SOA with current methodologies and tools of Business Processes Management Systems BPMS will bring significant contributions to the objectives of dynamic process management in modern enterprises. However, at the current state of development of both BPMS and SOA, this...
Tags: Business Process, University Of Trento, BPM, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management
White papers 2004-10-22
DST Technologies Launches AWD Healthcare Process Management Platform at HIMSS
Wireless News 02-14-2005 DST Technologies Launches AWD Healthcare Process Management Platform at HIMSS WIRELESS NEWS-14 February 2005-DST Technologies Launches AWD Healthcare Process Management Platform at HIMSS C2005 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com DST Technologies, a subsidiary of DST...
Tags: HIMSS
Research articles 2005-02-14
Simulation-Enabled Business Process Management, That "Extra Ingredient" for Intelligent BPM
This paper describes the Business Process Management BPM which is becoming increasingly important to organizations in all sectors who are faced with competitive pressure and who strive for increased effectiveness. Companies are realizing that they must focus on their business from the horizontal perspective of process rather than a vertical...
Tags: Business Process, BPM, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software
White papers 2003-11-01
Process Management Right For You?
A process can be defined as a set of ordered actions that lead to an output thanks Davis. In any business function, a goal is achieved through a process - paychecks are printed, orders are taken, employees are hired. How well the processes operate is the focus of this paper,...
Tags: Process, Process Management, iSixSigma, Enterprise Software, Software
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Increase Your ROI On Business Process Management
Business processes abound in every organization. Examples include application processing, call center support, case management, claim filing, legal registration, and purchasing. Many of these processes are essential to running the business, and in some cases, vital to the profitability of the enterprise. In past few years, organizations have begun to...
Tags: Process, Business Process, BPM, ROI, Claraview, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software
White papers 2004-11-03
Conversational Case-Based Reasoning Support For Business Process Management
Competitive pressures drive companies towards the implementation of process-aware information systems. In order to support a broad spectrum of business processes a Process Management System PMS must be flexible at run-time. This includes the support of ad-hoc deviations from the predefined process model, their memorization and reuse, and the support...
Tags: Business Process, Process Management, BPM, Reasoning Inc., University Of Innsbruck, Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software
White papers 2005-07-22
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