Business Process Management Tools

Business Process Management BPM is an approach for managing processes from Your processmodeling tool most likely will be used by the same business PMC Solutions inProcess software is a robust business process management tool that will allow you to create your map and share it with everyone in the organization quickly and affordably. That is because inProcess is a Webbased tool. As such, you can share your information instantly, regardless of whether your members are next door or around the world, and without the expense of printing and shipping.With BPM, you can get to the point where you can see, on a secondbysecond basis, whats happening in your business and where in the business are the holdups and where process improvement says Dean Pipes, an integration architect at The Toro Co. in Bloomington, Minn. The yard equipment manufacturer uses a BPM system based on Vitria Technology Inc.s BusinessWare to pool its purchases from vendors to negotiate volume discounts.In fact, some of the BPM vendors utilize existing BI software packages to provide this capability. For example, Metastorm and Hyperion have developed a product called eWork Insight that is an addon solution to Metastorms eWork BPM suite.Process efficiency refers to how long processes are taking to complete and how many resources the process is consuming. In general, we want processes that move as quickly as possible and at the lowest cost. A standard BPM suite should be able to provide detailed time and cost information about each process that has been handled. The user can then export that data and perform analysis on the information to determine where improvements can be made. More advanced BPM suites provide the ability to take the data, make modifications to the process maps, and run simulations on the changes to determine if the effects are meaningful. If so, they can then move those updated process changes into production right from the BPMs modeling tool. This capability is sometimes referred to as roundtrip business process management.