Optimize Business Processes
What’s Required to Optimize Business Processes?
To optimize business processes requires executive-level commitment, a supportive organizational culture, and clear communication among process stakeholders. In enterprises in which processes are executed in high volume and in which operational conditions are complex and dynamic, to optimize business processes also entails certain key technological capabilities. In particular, to optimize business processes in dynamic, transaction-intensive operations requires technologies to support:
- Clear visibility into operations across the enterprise so the status and performance of current business processes can be monitored and evaluated.
- Flexible, responsive processes so that process execution can take account of up-to-the-moment information about operational conditions and events.
- Continuous process improvement so that processes keep pace with advancing knowledge and changing circumstances.
Today more than ever, business optimization requires the right supporting technology.
Progress RPM Helps You Optimize Business Processes
The Progress Software Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite provides all the technological support you need to optimize business processes in your enterprise. The first enterprise solution to integrate business process management, business transaction management, and business-event processing technologies in one unified platform, Progress RPM delivers the capabilities needed to optimize business processes in complex, fast-moving operational environments:
- Comprehensive real-time visibility. In order to optimize business processes, you need first to be able to see clearly how your current processes are performing. Progress® RPM™ leverages a high-performance, enterprise data integration layer to give you a clear picture of process status and performance across your entire operation, bridging every location, department, and IT system. The platform also provides real-time visibility into transactions and business events. Through the RPM’s powerful business console, you can monitor the “big picture” of your enterprise operations in customizable dashboards, charts, and graphs, or drill down into deep detail about an individual dynamic business process, transaction, or event.
- Immediate sense-and-respond capability. The amount of operationally-relevant, real-time data that most enterprises are confronted with is potentially overwhelming. The Progress RPM suite’s complex-event processing technology helps turn this high-volume data flow into actionable insight. With complex-event processing, the system can continuously analyze designated live data streams from within or outside the organization. When the system detects significant events or event patterns, it can alert appropriate process participants, or trigger automated optimizations to process execution. By leveraging this type of intelligent business process that can accommodate real-time situational awareness, you can build dynamic operational optimization into your daily business routines.
- Continuous process optimization. Completing the RPM smart business process management platform is a comprehensive set of tools for designing, developing, testing, and deploying automated or semi-automated business processes. For business users, intuitive modeling and simulation tools make it easy to visualize current or proposed processes and to simulate their performance across a range of conditions. For programmers, an integrated development environment supports rapid, efficient creation and testing of process applications.
Learn more about how Progress RPM can help you optimize business processes and increase operational responsiveness in your enterprise.
