How can Business Process Management software optimize business outcomes and performance? Last year’s leading BPM events and the views aired therein by the industry’s thought leaders all bring out a dominant and somewhat worrying scenario – after a decade, Process Agility is still a pipe dream for organizations struggling to connect BPM technologies with their real world business processes.

1. Future Forward! - BPM Futuristic Trends
Future Forward! - BPM Futuristic Trends
How can Business Process Management optimize business outcomes and performance? Last year’s
leading BPM events and the views aired therein by the industry’s thought leaders all bring out a
dominant and somewhat worrying scenario – after a decade, Process Agility is still a pipe dream for
organizations struggling to connect BPM technologies with their real world business processes.
Companies continue to focus on process automation as the quick fix to achieving Business Process
Management goals without clearly defining end performance parameters and process improvement
metrics. There is a need then to step back from the blinding array of available BPMS and concentrate on
building operational resilience achieved through continuously introducing new process incidents for goal
fulfilment and performance measurement. The need is also to identify a set of techniques that allow
people, processes and information systems to adapt to changing patterns repeatedly.
The success words for the future of BPM include Activity Monitoring and Business Intelligence – a
greater shift towards “predictive” instead of the “reactive” models being followed; Business Activity
Monitoring (BAM) and Business Event Support as an important aspect of any full service BPM platform
whilst evaluating best fit BPMS by organizations. BPM platforms with a strong focus on BAM, will come
out on top by providing the critical visibility today’s embattled organizations need to establish relevant
business goals and accountability.
The road this year will organically lead to social BPM - an ideal scenario where knowledge workers and
partners model collaborative processes and BPMS designs address needs of unstructured process such
as those that rest with knowledge workers. . As organizations begin to see the light about creating
structures that are operationally resilient, BPMS as a technology takes a back seat. Key features of BPMS
that support real world company goals for operational intelligence such as BAM and Process Designers
for continuous process improvement take to the forefront of BPM as a solution to achieve operational
success.
Business transformation has emerged as the key to sustaining organizational success and there is
negligible concern on technology issues. Processes as a platform must necessarily come to pass as more
and more users are vested in the belief that processes will eventually run in the cloud (both public and
private).
The economic downturn has everyone looking inward and setting the house in order. Going forward,
structured process automation will slowly give way to process management for unstructured processes
– harnessing knowledge repositories within enterprises.
The emerging face of BPM extends accountability to process management as the means to optimize
business outcome. This means that BPMS needs to keep pace as organizations start adapting process at
the pace of business changes and not at the pace of their BPM package!
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About Skelta Business Process Management
Skelta Business Process Management (BPM) provides enterprises with a strong and collaborative
platform that automates the sequence of human, system and document centric activities that are
required to complete specific business goals. Skelta BPM’s rich features provide tools for graphical
modeling and improving end-to-end business processes.
Apart from being used as a stand-alone BPM software, Skelta BPM is utilized as an embeddable OEM
solution and also as a Business Application Platform to build BPM enabled horizontal solutions such
as Accounts Payable, Document Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Leave Management System
and Human Resource Information System for various industries ranging from Aerospace and Defense,
Automotive, Retail, Government, Healthcare, Banking and Finance and many more.
Skelta BPM enables application composition providing access to functionality from legacy IT assets using
advanced built-in capabilities. Skelta BPM offers a well integrated BPM platform and includes processes,
forms, user management, task management, dashboards, custom controls and queues. In addition,
Skelta BPM provides a wide range of connectors such as BizTalk Connector, SharePoint accelerator.
Extensions include Microsoft SAP LOB Adaptor and to the entire stack of Microsoft Office.
For more information on Skelta BPM, visit www.skelta.com
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