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BPMS Watch: Agility and BPMS Architecture

By: Bruce Silver, Independent BPMS Industry Analyst

In addition to the hard benefits of improving employee productivity and reducing cycle time, BPMS offers the strategic benefit of agility, meaning enhanced responsiveness to the continual shifts in both the competitive landscape and regulatory compliance environment. BPMS fosters agility by allowing new cross-functional process solutions to be developed and deployed quickly, and by enabling the rules that drive them to change with minimal development effort.

Case Study: Business Process Management - Applying Best Practices to Sales and Operations Planning

By: Mark Payne, Vice President, Operations, Polaroid Corporation

Polaroid was a company in recovery, needing to balance the Sales & Operations Planning functions in order to save money and resources. Ideally, planners could continually adjust SKU/sub-SKU demand and production while matching the business to marketplace realities. Polaroid with IBM created a solution to provide management with a continuous view of the future, enabling them to provide conscious, top-down direction.

Mark Payne is Vice President of Operations for Polaroid Corporation.

BPM for Compliance to Reduce Risk, Time, and Cost

Most organizations have now had a taste of what's involved in complying with regulatory mandates, whether for HIPAA or for SOX section 404, and they are realizing a better, more cost effective way of managing these initiatives is needed. Learn how companies can implement a compliance management approach that:

The Enterprise Service Bus

By: Judith Hurwitz and Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates

Suddenly every platform vendor worth its salt is introducing an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). So, what's going on and why is this important? Simply put, it represents the evolution of middleware from the era of "hub and spoke" and application servers to an abstracted model that is tailor-made for the movement to a service-oriented architecture. In our view, the only way to get the needed scalability and robustness in a world where we can't predict outcomes is through this abstracted model.

In a perfect world, all vendors would implement this infrastructure in a common and consistent way.

Business Intelligence Trends and Directions for 2004 and Beyond

Business Intelligence has matured to provide organizations a platform and a tools suite for IT to enable users to access and deliver timely and relevant information. The shift in the market to fully integrate the breadth of enterprise reporting, analytics, dashboards and other capabilities has created new opportunity and misperceptions on the reality on the trends in the BI market. Contributing cultural, technological and business factors that are driving or inhibiting the market will be presented.

Case Study: Supporting Enterprise Level Decision Making at HP

Examine how post-merger HP has begun to resolve its Enterprise BI challenges. Deborah Poindexter will explain how HP was able to bring focus to the difficult task of designing a centralized BI integration layer with Enterprise Standard Dimensions, a critical part of this design, becoming the one true source for dimensional data. She will describe the business triggers, pitfalls, and innovations encountered during the process.

Getting Started in BPM

Contributed by:

Daniel Morris, Managing Principle, Wendan Consulting

By: Daniel C. Morris, Independent Industry Consultant, Morris-Brandon Consulting

While there is no one right way to get started in BPM, there are some guidelines that will make your life a lot easier. It should be remembered that getting started in BPM will be based on a belief in process oriented operational improvement and your ability to sell BPM to your management.

Although BPM may well become a strategic initiative in your company, the simple fact is that it is unlikely that many BPM efforts will get started at the enterprise level with formal strategies and aggressive adoption plans.

Understanding the Enterprise Business Architecture

Contributed by:

Ralph Whittle, Enterprise Business Architect, Independent Consultant

By: Ralph Whittle, Strategic Business / IT Consultant and co-author

During the past several years, many companies have implemented Business Process Management (BPM) initiatives with great success. You can find several web sites and research companies providing excellent information about BPM frameworks, methodologies and approaches. Some provide monthly bulletins and newsletters which can keep you current on the progress of these initiatives and their emerging capabilities.

Enterprise Business Architecture: The Formal Link between Strategy and Results

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Understanding Business Rules as a Key Enabler for Business

Contributed by:

Neal McWhorter, President, Strategic Value Partners

By: Neal McWhorter, Chief Architect, Enterprise Agility

For many organizations, business rules represent their core differentiating offerings. This is particularly true in industries where the product offering is actually a service that is implemented by complex software systems. The financial services industry, such as banking, insurance, finance, loan processing and credit cards, is a prime example of a domain (or many domains) where business rules take center stage and are the MVPs of differentiation.