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Dr. M.A. Ketabchi

Dr. M.A. Ketabchi

Chief Strategist, Office of the CTO

Progress Software acquired Savvion, Inc., in January 2010. Dr. M.A. Ketabchi founded Savvion in 1994. Under his leadership, Savvion launched the first business process management (BPM) product in 1999.

Over the past 15 years, Ketabchi has been engaged with many Savvion customers and partners, helping them improve their business through BPM and BPM-enabled solutions.

Ketabchi is well known for his pioneering research in business process management technologies and methods; process-centric, domain-oriented business solutions; object-oriented database management systems; and application development technologies. Over the last 20 years he has published and presented extensively in these areas and has made significant contributions to advancing the state of the art and technologies in BPM and process-centric, domain-oriented business solutions.

Ketabchi received his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

 

BPM in a Down Economy

Presented By M.A. Ketabchi

Is business process management recession proof? In today's tight economy, the goal shouldn't be merely to cut costs, it should be to cut costs intelligently.  That's where BPM comes in.  Listen as Sandy Kemsley, Independent Analyst and BPM Consultant, and Dr. M.A. Ketabchi of Progress discuss the ways that BPM can benefit companies today through advanced process handling and improved workflow. These claims are then backed up with some amazing ROI stats and real customer examples. 

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QAD, Skyward, Match2Blue Make Progress

Application partners worldwide are making progress by deploying solutions built upon Progress Software technology. Here's a video that features three partners - QAD, Skyward, and Match2Blue - who use our products to develop, deploy and manage their business applications, and increase their operational responsiveness.

Driving Excellence in Customer Experience with BPM

This webinar provides a more detailed picture of how you can improve your customer experience. Speakers Neil Ward-Dutton, Research Director at MWD Advisors, and Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, Chief Strategist, Progress Software will explore how you can augment BPM technology with complementary capabilities to drive a great customer experience.

Modernizing Your OpenEdge Application with BPM

Listen as Progress' Colleen Smith and Dr. Ketabchi explain how you can process-enable your OpenEdge application to be more competitive and position your customers to be more successful in their markets.Start transitioning your business into an efficient BPM environment.

Project Manager's BPM

Hear Savvion's founder, Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, and BPM Institute.org's Gregg V. Rock, talk about the "easy" path for project and business process managers to unify around BPM.

 

Increase Your Business IQ

Dr. KetabchiListen as Dr. M.A. Ketabchi of Progress explains how the right mix of BPM and BEP can help you reduce cost, improve quality, manage exceptions, and increase revenue.

See For Yourself How Our Partners Make Progress

Head to Head: A Special Report

Head to Head: Beneftis of SOA and BPMJanelle B. Hill, Research VP at Gartner, and Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, VP of Strategy at Progress, go head to head to discuss the benefits of adopting SOA and BPM technologies.