Continuous Process Optimization

Today’s Economy Demands Continuous Process Optimization

In a volatile marketplace driven by intense global competition, businesses have little room for inefficiency and waste. To maintain market share and profitability, business leaders must strive to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes through which their organizations develop and deliver products and services. For many businesses, an enterprise-wide commitment to continuous process optimization can be a key driver of competitive standing and profit, particularly during periods of slack demand in the broader economy. To deliver the desired results in cost savings, reduced cycle times, and improved output quality, a continuous process optimization program must be backed by:

• Strong executive leadership.
• A compelling business case that makes the need for the program clear throughout the organization.
• Ongoing communication among key stakeholders.
• Supporting technology that provides real-time visibility into process execution across the enterprise, as well as the ability to model, analyze, and implement continuous process optimization initiatives.

Progress RPM: The Continuous Process Optimization Solution

The Progress® Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite is the first technology solution to support all facets of continuous process optimization in a unified platform. The Progress RPM suite powers three key technical capabilities that are crucial for a successful program of continuous process optimization:

• 360-degree real-time visibility. The foundation of the Progress RPM suite is an enterprise integration layer that provides real-time visibility into transactions and process executions across your entire enterprise, as they happen. Through Progress RPM’s integrated business control panel, business leaders, process owners, and analysts can monitor the real-time big picture through graphs, charts, and dashboards, as well as drill down into a single transaction view or single customer view to investigate particular issues of interest.
• Immediate sense and respond. Progress RPM’s industry-leading, complex event processing technology correlates and analyzes fast-moving event streams. By comparing unfolding events to your specified performance metrics and thresholds, Progress RPM alerts you to emerging threats, opportunities, or inefficiencies, thus enabling you to take immediate action, such as adjusting an in-progress transaction or process execution directly through the console.
• Process analysis and implementation. The RPM suite features a rich array of business process management tools, including user-friendly process modeling and simulation utilities that enable business analysts to articulate and test process optimization ideas without assistance from the application developers. A versioning system and searchable process repository supports efficient collaboration among analysts, process stakeholders, and developers; and a powerful visual IDE enables developers to turn promising continuous process optimization ideas into running automated applications. The robust business process management tools within the Responsive Process Management suite make it clear why leading companies around the world turn to Progress for best-of-breed BPM solutions.

Learn more about how Progress Software’s RPM suite powers event driven business process management and continuous process optimization, as well as other applications such as integrated trouble management, application performance management, and more.