Continuous Process Improvement

Continuous Process Improvement is a Key to Business Success

In today’s hyper-competitive marketplace, a company’s internal processes – the specific ways in which it brings together people, resources, and technology to develop and deliver products and services – are a key differentiator and determinant of competitive standing. And in an era of constant change, the way in which a business manages its processes over time will be critical to its long-term success or failure. The most successful companies regard their processes as a strategic asset, and strive for continuous process improvement. A philosophy of continuous process improvement recognizes that in an environment of continually shifting competition, technology, regulation, and consumer demand, “process optimization” doesn’t mean a static ideal but rather an ongoing responsiveness and evolution.

Progress RPM Enables Continuous Process Improvement

The Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite is the first business solution to support all facets of continuous process improvement through a single integrated platform. Progress RPM delivers three key benefits that in concert can make continuous process improvement a reality for your business:

Comprehensive real time visibility. At the base of the Progress RPM suite is an enterprise integration platform that provides real time visibility into processes, transactions, and events as they occur across your entire operation. In the typical enterprise, processes and events are fragmented across multiple departments, IT systems, and point applications. Progress RPM connects to and seamlessly integrates all your live event sources to provide a 360° view of what’s happening in your business, as it happens. For example, you can monitor your supply chain processes, market surveillance systems, and delivery operations in real time, all through the RPM’s unified business control panel.
High performance event processing and response. Progress RPM’s high performance complex event processing engine turns fast-moving event streams into actionable insight. By correlating and analyzing events occurring across your entire enterprise and comparing them to your specified process performance metrics, Progress RPM reveals real time opportunities, threats, or inefficiencies and enables you to take action before opportunities pass or problems escalate. At your control, the response might be automated or manual, and may involve adjustment of an in-progress process or the triggering of supporting processes. This comprehensive real time visibility and “immediate sense and respond” capability elevate Progress RPM beyond conventional BPM solutions.

Business process modeling and optimization. Advanced business process modeling, analysis, and automation tools complete the integrated Progress RPM platform. This powerful tool set, coupled with the process insight driven by the RPM’s real time visibility and complex event processing capabilities, puts your organization squarely on the path of continuous process improvement. A searchable process repository, versioning support, user-friendly collaborative tools, and document publishing capabilities all help to foster a continuous process improvement culture across your enterprise.

The Progress RPM suite easily integrates with your existing IT system, providing you a continuous process optimization solution without major disruption to your infrastructure.

Learn more about how Progress Responsive Process Management raises the bar for intelligent BPM solutions. In addition to providing solutions for continuous process improvement, Progress also offers business solutions for client on-boarding, business transaction assurance, fraud prevention and SaaS and Cloud enablement.

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