Smart BPM
Get the Most Out of Your Business Processes with Smart BPM
With resources tight and marketplaces constantly shifting, today’s business leaders recognize the importance of closely managing operational processes to ensure that they’re efficient, effective, and evolving with the market. Business process management (BPM) solutions support these efforts by providing a technology platform on which to design, develop, and deploy automated and semi-automated business processes. “Smart BPM” solutions go further by driving business processes and process management practices that are highly responsive to the operational environment. In particular:
- Smart BPM enables very rapid design, development, and deployment of automated and semi-automated business processes so that processes can keep pace with environmental changes and with advancing knowledge.
- Smart BPM supports responsive process execution that leverages up-to-the-minute intelligence about operational conditions and events.
The most advanced smart BPM platform on the market is the Progress Software Responsive Process Management (RPM) suite. By seamlessly integrating leading-edge business process management technology with complementary technologies for business transaction management and complex event processing, Progress has created a comprehensive smart BPM solution without peer.
Progress RPM: Smart BPM Tools for Fast Process Creation
The Progress RPM™ suite features a rich set of tools to deliver a key requirement of smart BPM: fast, efficient creation and deployment of new and improved processes. RPM tools for process intelligence creation include:
- User-friendly process modeling utilities that enable process stakeholders, analysts, and developers to express existing or proposed processes in graphical or tabular form.
- Simulation utilities that let users run “what if” scenarios that test processes under different conditions or loads.
- Comparative reports that help guide the choice of the best process design.
- A searchable process repository with versioning support plus check-in/check-out controls to facilitate collaboration and the efficient reuse of models and code.
- A visual IDE in which developers can build and test process applications. In another intelligent BPM design element, the visual IDE is closely integrated with the modeling environment in order to ease and accelerate collaboration between business users and programmers.
Another key element to business process analysis is collaboration. Collaboration in process design and analysis derives process innovation and improvements. To facilitate collaboration, there needs to be a central repository where people can share their ideas and learn from everybody else’s experiences. Progress® Savvion® Process Asset Manager includes common process repository that can be accessed by authorized users remotely or locally; supporting versioning with check-in and check-out capabilities.
Smart BPM Requires Real-Time Visibility and Response
The Progress RPM suite not only enables fast, flexible process creation, it also supports highly responsive process execution. The RPM platform helps you improve BPM and increase business performance by giving you a 360-degree real-time view of processes, transactions, and events as they occur across your entire enterprise, as well as the ability to continuously analyze and respond to high-volume event streams. Leveraging the RPM suite’s high-performance, complex-event processing engine, you can build process applications that detect significant environmental events and trigger automated or semi-automated responses, in real time.
Learn more about how Progress RPM can be an engine of dynamic operational optimization and business optimization in your enterprise.
In addition to providing best-in-class solutions for smart BPM, Progress Software also has solutions for enterprise application integration, data integration and complex event processing, plus industry solutions for capital markets, telecommunications, and transport and logistics.
