An important part of analyzing necessary capabilities for a future Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Interoperability environment is to envision, explore and lay out the core architectural principles and templates of a holistic service-based organization. By defining a notional landscape of patterns and best practices, a clearer picture of the integration between application architectures and integration architectures can be developed.
One of the biggest challenges faced by companies embarking on a process improvement and governance initiative today is illuminating the exposure to compliance failure, fraud, and other legal and efficiency issues lying hidden in their operational workflows. Fujitsu's Automated Business Process Discovery and Visualization Service eliminates months of time and labor-intensive exploration and lets organizations immediately discover what often remains completely invisible. Learn more about this innovative offering from Fujitsu and how can you benefit from it.
Find out how Constellation Energy Group uses Documentum to enable more efficient IT procurement and case management. By replacing paper requests, integrating mainframe applications and creating a corporate portal Constellation Energy Group was able to improve customer service, reduce processing time and errors and better protect sensitive information.
A 10 Point Checklist is a good place to start when scaling your process documentation initiative.
- 30 minutes with your Executive Sponsor every week
- Dates and Deliverables Create Urgency
- Find the Right Documentation Tool - is yours up to the task?
- Build your Company’s Process Chart
- An Owner for Every Process
Download this white paper for items 6-10 and additional "how to" specifics for each item.
With Transactional Content Management, organizations can benefit from the use of BPM as well as imaging, document management and capture technologies to reach higher levels of operational agility, drive innovation and reduce operational costs across functional areas. In about 15 minutes, this guide will define transactional content management, explain why it's important, outline the benefits, suggest a deployment framework, and provide resources for you to learn more.
The 2008 BPMS Report by Bruce Silver, a leading independent industry analyst covering BPM technology, objectively evaluates the EMC Documentum Process Suite 6.0, describing it in depth and evaluating its strengths in four distinct process types or "use cases." The report covers the product suite in 34 pages, loaded with diagrams and screenshots.
BPM’s promises are real, but the path to success is littered with pitfalls and shortcuts to failure. Best practices can help you avoid them. The good news is that BPM has now reached a stage of maturity which ensures that customers who are just embarking on using its methods and tools have a wealth of experience to learn from and build on. To succeed with BPM, you will need to develop your own best practices and constantly evolve them to stay ahead of the competition. The following "lessons-learned" provide a good place to start.
For a number of years, systems modernization been has providing benefits to organizations seeking to analyze software architectures in support of tactical systems initiatives such as software maintenance. Modernization has also delivered benefits for project teams seeking to migrate from obsolete or aging languages and platforms to more modern environments. While success stories abound for tactical modernization projects, they merely represent the "low hanging fruit" of what modernization can achieve. Modernization efforts are now reaching into more significant and far reaching domains, extending opportunities into the upper echelons of IT and business architectures. Achieving this goal requires a deeper understanding of the architectural impacts of systems modernization.
It seems the more technology transforms the way you run your business, the higher the bar of customer expectations is raised, and the faster the pace of change accelerates. You’re doing things faster and better than ever, at lower cost, and on a more global scale, but you still feel you’re falling behind. Your twenty-first century pain points make you long for the days when the biggest worry was Y2K.
To support business process improvement initiatives, many IT groups today have been implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in order to re-orient their core technology to reflect new consumption patterns. The service oriented context, however, is only a part of the process improvement equation - it needs a partner. This paper discusses how leading companies have recognized that implementing Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA together gives them unique capabilities to enable business process improvement.
