Business Process Lifecycle Management

Learn how Savvion Business Manager addresses the stages of a business process lifecycle namely, articulation, automation, execution, measurement, and optimization.

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  Business Process Modeling

Learn the importance of Process Modeling and Analysis in BPM systems and how Savvion BusinessManager fulfills this requirement.

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  Guide to Process Rules

In the emerging and increasingly dynamic arena of e-business interactions, one of the most important challenges is to capture and put into effect the business rules of the processes that span the extended enterprise.

This whitepaper compares the conventional business rule techniques with the process-centric business rule paradigm. Included is a breakdown of an example business rule. Also covered is a detailed description of the three inter-related categories of business rules:

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  Foundations of Savvion BPM Suite

Savvion BPM Suite 7.0 was released more than a year ago and version 7.5 will be released in Q4 2008. While each version provides more and easier to use functionality and new product components, certain things do not change from version to version – they are invariants of our product philosophy and strategy. We call these foundations of our products.

This whitepaper describe these foundations and explain why they are important and how we achieve them in our products.

  Managing Project Oriented Processes

Over the years, as a result of working on many BPM (Business Process Management) initiatives worldwide, we have realized that many processes have project characteristics, demanding a unique approach in their management. We refer to these processes as Project-Oriented Processes (POP).

This whitepaper will guide you through our philosophy on managing Project-Oriented Processes.

  Making Business Improvement Real: How People Power the Process

This 13-page free guide explains business improvement initiatives in clear, concise language, making their benefits easy to understand. If you've ever considered a business improvement project, but shelved it because it seemed like more work on top of the work already at hand, this white paper is for you. 

Learn the inherent problems with other options for nurturing business improvement which have sprung up over the years: Total Quality Management (TQM), Process Re-engineering, Six Sigma, etc. Conversely, see how the right BPM solution will allow individuals and teams to contribute directly to improving their daily process-driven business activities. 

Intended Audience:

• BPM business and IT owners
• Project team leaders and members
• Managers
• Business analysts and consultants
• Any business person balancing quality control, regulatory compliance or profit pressures.

  Understanding Usage Patterns An Enterprise BPMS Must Support

BPM is one of the key drivers for the success of your business. Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) provide you with tools and technology to deliver the values of BPM. Effective enterprise deployment of BPMS requires an understanding of different usage scenarios. An enterprise class BPMS must support these usage scenarios, in addition to being scalable and highly reliable.

This whitepaper discusses seven important and frequent usage scenarios. Savvion BPMS addresses all these usage scenarios to meet needs of your enterprise.

  How to Stop Talking and Start "Doing" BPM Today

Many companies know business process management can provide great value to their organization, yet have not actually implemented BPM because they don't know how to make the first step. Questions arise such as: Where do I start? Which department should own the project? Can I begin without a budget?

This whitepaper guides you through the top 5 barriers in order to get you actually 'doing'. Once you know how to take that first step, it's easy to start with something simple that still has a major impact.

The intended audience for this whitepaper includes:

• Business owners or analysts
• IT professionals or strategists
• Anyone familiar with BPM who has yet to take the next step

  Five Ways to Beat the Recession with BPM

Our current economic situation raises the question: how can BPM help companies weather this storm? In this article, we highlight five ‘must have’ attributes for a company to endure. The article will also show how BPM, if implemented properly, can deliver these attributes within a few months and make the difference of survival or demise.

The core elements of a business operation are its business processes, or the ways in which it organizes and uses resources to achieve its desired results. With BPM, an organization can cooperatively define its business processes, integrate them with its existing software systems, and deploy them as applications accessible via the Web. Managers and their teams can monitor, analyze, control and improve the execution of those processes in real time. BPM is relevant more than ever today. Here are 5 key areas where BPM can help companies thrive during these testing times.

  Savvion and 6 Sigma

Savvion BusinessManager is an ideal system for defining and implementing Six Sigma processes and artifacts. Here's why Savvion BusinessManager is best suited for Six Sigma.

  Defining the Benefits of Adopting a BPM Approach

Although most BPM tool suites are inexpensive, in the current economic climate no expense can escape scrutiny and moving towards BPM will normally have to be justified based on benefit.

The discussion presented in this paper provides an approach to looking at the benefits BPM can provide, as well as some of the costs that may need to be considered. This paper also recognizes that there are two basic levels of improvement projects. These are problem/specific activity improvements which are fairly narrow in scope and broader transformation level improvements. BPM supports both levels, but adoption justification will be different for each level.

  The Case for BPM

Companies are locked in a constant struggle for operational improvement and through it, cost reduction. This paper looks at Business Process Management focused change and the flexibility it provides.

  Savvion Energy Demand Response

Energy demand is growing worldwide and so are its prices. The increase in supply is not keeping up with the increase in demand and the reserve margins are alarmingly low. There is a lot of pressure on the utilities and the system operators to focus on real time balancing of this demand and supply.

Some of the regulatory commissions are moving towards smart meters that can monitor the energy usage during different times and have a two way communication with provider and consumer to operationalize the Demand Response idea. The Idea of Demand Response (DR), simply put, is where the consumer can voluntarily opt
to give away her consumption of energy during peak demand periods in return for certain incentives. It is like bidding in real-time to entice a consumer to let go her consumption in return of financial benefit.

  BPM-enabled Solutions for Collaboration between Sponsor and CROs

BPM-enabled solutions for managing clinical trials

This paper describes challenges in effective execution and tracking of Clinical Trials, including collaboration between Sponsor and CROs.

Bruno Gagnon, Senior Director of Clinical Operations at Roche and Pejman Makhfi, VP of Solutions at Savvion describe ways to address those challenges by utilizing BPM (Business Process Management) solutions in managing clinical operations.

They explain how BPM-enabled solutions facilitate adaptive trials approach and provide means to continuous process improvement using methodologies such as Six Sigma.

  Innovation in Supply Chain Management with BPM

  To BPM or not to BPM

To BPM or not to BPM, that is the question in every process manager's mind today. With the state of the global economy today, everyone is asked to do more for less.

In this whitepaper, you will learn about:

  Practical Business Process Improvement

The promise of BPM is to make your business more efficient and deliver that ever elusive continuous improvement. This continuous improvement, though very desirable and conceptually simple, has been a challenge for all businesses. The key question remains “How can I know what needs to be improved?” And once they know something needs improvement, how to act on that. All agree that in order to stay competitive, business processes need to be improved continuously. But how can we make this happen?

  Case Management Solution Brochure

  Life Sciences Foundation brochure

Savvion offers a contemporary solution to help manage and automate the operations aspect of clinical trials that can cut the cost and time by up to 33%.

Benefits:

• Increases the efficiency of clinical trials by streamlining and optimizing your current processes
• Displays trial progress in real time using easy-to-read charts and graphs, allowing faster decisions - no more spreadsheets or time consuming manual processes
• Enforces and monitors policy and regulatory compliance with a full audit trail – no more fumbling through stacks of reports and emails or making dozens of phone calls
• Easily adapts to changes in operations, policies, and clinical regulations
• Manages and improves communication between Principal Investigator, CRO and Sponsor
• Most importantly, the Life Sciences Foundation benefits every person in every role within your organization, from the Head of R&D to the CRA (Clinical Research Associate)

  Banking Foundation brochure

  Communications Order Management Solution brochure

  Savvion for Government

Savvion brings the complete functionality and more importantly the scale government agencies will require for the intra and inter agency process integration to be successful.

  Savvion Supply Chain Solution brochure

Savvion’s Supply Chain Solution allows organizations to optimize the procurement process by:

• Eliminating issues caused by disparate, manual processes in the procurement organization
• Centralizing and aggregating buying activities. Savvion’s BPM is utilized to aggregate purchase orders placed within the system, rolling up common part orders, or orders from a common supplier.

  BPM Primer

Informational Brochure - What is BPM? What benefits does BPM provide? Why Savvion?

  Savvion Overview

Informational Brochure - Complete Savvion Overview

  Savvion Product Overview

Informational Brochure - Savvion Product Overview

  Savvion Business Rules Management System data sheet

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for the Savvion Business Rules Management System.

  Savvion Communications Order Management Solution Datasheet

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for the Savvion Communications Order Management Solution.

  Savvion Banking Foundation Datasheet

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for the Savvion Banking Foundation.

  Savvion BPM Portal

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for Savvion BPM Portal.

  Savvion BPM Server

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for Savvion BPM Server.

  Savvion BPM Studio

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for Savvion BPM Studio.

  Savvion Process Modeler

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for Savvion Process Modeler.

  Savvion Business Expert

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for Savvion Business Expert.

  Savvion Process Asset Manager

This data sheet describes the features, components, and technical matrix for Savvion Process Asset Manager.

  NETGEAR Improves Productivity and Day-to-Day Operations With Savvion

Learn how NETGEAR utilizes Savvion solutions to improve time-to-market, manage costs more efficiently, increase productivity, and optimize day-to-day operations.

  Savvion Streamlines Underwriting Process for Reliance Life

Learn how Reliance Life utilizes Savvion solutions to significantly reduce time and cost to process and underwrite new policies.

  King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Is Top of the Class With Savvion

Learn how KFUPM utilizes Savvion solution to improve quality of work with BPM standardization across the university and to significantly reduce completion time for processes such as research grant submittal.

  Improving Business Processes in Financial Services

This solution brief describes how processes are typically implemented in financial services firms today and how Savvion BusinessManager solutions can empower people, thereby enabling process collaboration, control, and ongoing refinement.
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  Improving Product Lifecycle Processes to Drive Business Agility: A Solution Brief for Manufacturers

This solution brief highlights the challenges faced by companies in developing world-class products and services, and Savvion’s experiences in such companies who rely on efficient product lifecycle management to achieve competitive advantage.

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  A New Foundation for the Shifting Sands of the Communications Industry: Business Process Management

This solution brief highlights how telecommunication companies have utilized BPM’s efficiency and cost reduction strategies to adapt quickly to the changing competitive landscape, thus achieving more market share and reduced costs.

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  Making Intelligence Actionable: Business Process Management and Business Intelligence

For more than 15 years, Business Intelligence (BI) has lived at the intersection of people and data with the noble goal of making people and organizations smarter. The premise behind the growth of the tools and the BI category is simple: Information is good.

But, for many organizations, the ability of individuals, teams and departments to apply the intelligence they’ve gathered from BI into an actionable plan or process isn’t possible. The opportunity is to turn that information into action. This is where Business Process Management (BPM) picks up and BI leaves off by making intelligence actionable.

This 7 page guide shows how BPM makes metrics actionable and why BPM is an important part of any Business Intelligence strategy.

  Collaborative Design and Manufacturing

Learn how Savvion BusinessManager facilitated and enhanced product design changes in a highly collaborative environment for a software company’s complex software product supported on a multimillion-part database.

  Customer Relationship and Order Management

Learn how Savvion BusinessManager automated and improved an order entry and configuration process through a built-in Web portal, where customers and sales personnel could provide direct and accurate inputs.

  Benefits of adopting SOA and BPM technologies across the business

Janelle B. Hill, Research VP, Gartner and Savvion' President, CEO and Founder, Dr. M.A. Ketabchi go head to head to discuss the benefits of adopting SOA and BPM technologies across the business.

  Bloor BPMS Market Update

  Business Process Management for Transport Industry

To remain competitive, transport companies must maximize their efficiencies and maintain full visibility into their business operations. Running a transport business means managing numerous crucial business processes, including fleet management, supply chain management, customer management, management of leases, repairs and maintenance, registrations and permits, and more. Maintaining control of these processes can keep the business and the fleet running well. To help manage these processes at the highest performance level is the prime and distinctive benefit of business process management systems (BPMS).

  Savvion Business Process Management Suite Technology Audit

Savvion Business Process Management Suite provides a comprehensive solution for mid-sized or large-sized organizations that need to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their key processes.

Read the Technology Audit conducted by Butler Group.

  Finding Agility in Your Processes

In an economy that is still under reeling the impact of the recession, clearly understanding and exploiting the potential of process management can contribute significantly to enhancing efficiency.

Successful organizations have known all along that the formula for success is to adapt to change and ensure they are not left behind. However in today's scenario, the ability to transform quickly is also increasingly becoming an imperative. It is this speed-to-affect-change that is emerging as a key differentiator for smart enterprises, which are keen to exploit business transformation to earn unparalleled competitive advantage. It is thus a great time to discuss business process management (BPM) and find out what an organization can do with it, especially in terms of deriving more value from business transformation initiatives during the slowdown.

  Achieving Faster ROI Through Verticalization

In this webinar you would learn about how vertical specific domain foundation enabled by Business Process Management Systems deliver quick ROI. What is domain foundation composed of? Why is it even more important in current economic situation to built process solutions on BPM enabled domain foundation. This provides you with agility and visibility that you need to run your business, make it more efficient and moreover deliver the solutions quickly.

Guest Speaker: Simon Holloway; Practice Leader Process and Sensory Devices, Bloor Research

  Addressing Clinical Trial Challenges & Opportunities with BPM

Speaker: Roy Devine
VP, PLS Drug Safety & Clinical Solutions
Webcast live, Wednesday July 22, 2009 1:00 PM Eastern 

In today’s market, the life sciences industry is facing a number of challenges. The challenges range from the expiration of patents, escalating cost of clinical trials and increasingly stringent new regulatory guidelines. Due to these factors, the pharmaceutical, CROs and medical device companies must re-evaluate their clinical trials processes and look for efficiencies, faster time to market and reduce costs. In addition, the companies must quickly update their processes and polices to comply with new standards. Clinical trials are a particularly costly and time-consuming part of the R&D process, frequently accounting for over 40% of total R&D spending.

More than half of clinical trials are behind schedule by one to six months. And there is a tremendous cost involved with every day that a trial is delayed, not just on the product value if the investigational medicine gets to market, but on the actual cost of running a trial on a daily basis which is estimated to be about $35,000.

Savvion offers a contemporary solution to help manage and automate the operations aspect of clinical trials that can cut the cost and time by up to 33%. The Savvion Life Sciences Foundation enables automation of critical processes such as site set-up, site management, patient enrollment, safety data distribution, grant management, patient information management, clinical quality document management and subsequent improvements of the business.

  Panel Discussion: BPM in the Real World

Business process management (BPM) is all about tying together disparate automation activities across your organization and across your ecosystem, be it a services or product supply chain, or hybrid of the two. The challenges involve choosing the situational BPM applications that can provide the fastest return on investment. This panel will explore the plusses and minuses of BPM in (industry/or by role-horizontal function) by looking at many of the options users are facing in real life.

  How to Use Process as a Competitive Weapon

Date: Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Time: 9:00am US Pacific/12:00pm US Eastern

Featured Speakers:
Jim Sinur, VP Gartner
Dr. Ketabchi, President, CEO and Founder, Savvion

Today many organization are actively using BPM to save money and survive, and this is certainly an appropriate use of BPM. There are another set of organizations that look at down times to make their organizations more competitive. This takes a bit of strategy planning to make sure the end result leaps ahead of the pack.

In this webcast:
• You will hear how some organizations are leveraging processes as a competitive weapon.
• You will learn the difference between survival and thriving
• You will walk away with some new technology combinations that can be leveraged in a competitive fashion

  Making a Case for BPM in Government

Date: Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Time: 8:00am Pacific/11:00am Eastern

Featured Speakers:

Ajay Khanna, Sr. Director, Product Marketing & Management, Savvion, Inc.
John Cordell, Savvion Sr. Director, Alliances, Savvion, Inc.

Do you have a lack of process transparency in your government agency? How about having to deal with cumbersome manual processes that require contacting each department and following up to assure completion?

More and more government agencies are turning to Business Process Management (BPM) as the fastest way for agencies to turn ideas into real world solutions. Today, the challenge is how to take advantage of this investment, while also satisfying government-specific requirements. BPM is the answer to that challenge.

Join Ajay Khanna, Savvion’s Sr. Director of Product Marketing & Management, and John Cordell, Savvion’s Sr. Director of Alliances, for this webinar and you will learn the value BPM can bring to your government agency and how you can significantly reduce costs while satisfaction is increased.

This webinar will discuss:

• What values BPM offers
• Why should government agencies look into BPM?
• Understanding ROI from BPM
• What are the sources of efficiencies?
• How BPM enables you to leverage your investments in SOA and other IT systems

  Addressing Challenges in Communication & Media using BPM

Date: Wednesday October 28, 2009 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern

Featured Speakers:
Clay Richardson, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Sanjay Kumar, VP, Communications & Media Solutions, Savvion

Controlling costs and resources is just the tip of the iceberg facing communications companies in an ever-tightening financial and regulatory environment. Part of the issue is the underpinnings of their business infrastructure, such as the constraints of their existing Operational Support Systems (OSS) and Business Support Systems (BSS). This presentation focuses on the benefits companies can immediately derive from taking a process-centered approach with BPMS, including:

  BPM Center of Excellence: Where Do I Start?

Date: Thursday December 3rd, 2009 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern

Featured Speakers:
Mary Adams, IT Manager for BPM, Sandia Labs
Roberta Jaramillo, BPM Project Lead, Sandia Labs
Tim Dooley, Director of Professional Service – Center of Excellence, Savvion Inc.

Have you recently adopted BPM as your strategic path to process improvement? Are you looking to maximize your existing BPM investment and drive process to the next level?

The concept of a BPM Center of Excellence is not new and the benefits are well documented. The most challenging issue with a COE is “Where Do I Start?”. To realize the benefits and obtain the correct path to continual process improvement, the formation and organization of the team, sponsorship and support groups is critical. If you are serious about BPM, a BPM Center of Excellence is the answer to that challenge. Establishing a COE provides a path for taking a governance and best practices approach to process improvement.

Join Mary Adams, IT Manager for BPM at Sandia Labs, Roberta Jaramillo, Project Lead for the BPM Center of Excellence at Sandia Labs, and Tim Dooley, Savvion’s Director of Professional Service & Center of Excellence, for this webinar and you will learn the value a BPM Center of Excellence can bring to your organization to decrease costs, increase efficiencies and govern your next steps towards continual process improvement.

This webinar will discuss:

  Business Process Analysis: Go Beyond Modeling & Achieve Business Improvement

January 21, 2010 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific

Join Savvion and Dr. Bruce Silver to learn more about Business Process Analysis (BPA). In this webinar your will learn more about process modeling, process analysis and process improvement. Dr. Silver is a leading independent industry analyst and consultant focused on business process management. He is actively involved in writing BPMN 2.0 specifications at the Object Management Group (OMG) and published a book titled “BPMN Method & Style”.

  Improving Your Business Processes

Date – Wednesday, November 18th
Time – 10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern
Featured Speakers:
Ajay Khanna, Sr. Director, Product Marketing & Management, Savvion, Inc.

The promise of BPM is to make your business more efficient and deliver that ever elusive continuous improvement. This continuous improvement, though very desirable and conceptually simple, has been a challenge for all businesses. The key question remains “How can I know what needs to be improved?” And once they know something needs improvement, how to act on that. All agree that in order to stay competitive, business processes need to be improved continuously. But how can we make this happen?

In this webcast you will learn:
• How Business Process Improvement is delivered by BPM
• What are various tools available to improve your business processes
• How empowered business managers can achieve the improvement faster
• How to get started no matter where you are in your process maturity

  Project Manager's BPM

Hear Savvion's Dr. M.A. Ketabchi and BPMInstitute.org's Gregg V. Rock talk about the Easy path for Project Managers and Business Process Managers to unify around BPM

  Addressing Banking Challenges & Opportunities with BPM

In this webinar you will learn about how Business Process Management or BPM, help address the challenges and opportunities in the banking or financial services industry. Topics discussed include how can BPM enable transformation in the banking industry with emphasis on lending.

Featured Speaker: Kristin Moyer, Research Director, Gartner

  Addressing Case Management Challenges with BPM

Aug 13th, 2009
11:00am PST

Speaker - Ajay Khanna, Sr. Director, Product Marketing & Management, Savvion, Inc.

Case Management is fast becoming one of the more important usage patterns of Business Process Management (BPM). Although this is a common element, surprisingly, it is not delivered by most Business Process Management Systems with the specialized out-of-the-box functionality that is critical to your success.

This usage pattern demands sophistication for the work management. It must support multiple scenarios at once such as; customer contact centers with hundreds or thousands of agents working and resolving cases, trouble tickets, orders, inquiries, or fraud reports.

Process instances are generally short lived, possibly ending with one call, but the volume can bring your entire organization to a grinding halt.

In this webinar you would learn about the challenges in Case Management and how BPM successfully addresses them.

This webinar will highlight:

• Understanding the unique process challenges in Case Management at support centers, call centers, and similar environments
• How BPM addresses and solves these challenges
• How a BPM based solution can ensure your business has the Visibility into the Process, the Ability to pinpoint bottleneck and problem areas, and the Agility to quickly address issues before problems escalate

  Reduce Supply Chain Costs and Improve Purchasing Responsiveness with a BPM-enabled solution

What are you doing to manage your supply chain operations and partner collaboration today?
Do you feel your procurement processes and methods are under control?

Featured Speakers:
Quentin Samelson, Director of Supply Chain, Motorola
Ron Sorensen, Partner, CollabraLink Technologies Inc.
John Cordell, Savvion Sr. Director, Alliances

In this 45 minute session, you will discover how a BPM based supply chain management solution helps improve operational efficiencies for manufacturing companies. Learn how BPM strengthens the supply chain by getting reliable information to the right locations quickly.

In this session, you will learn:

  Achieve 300% Savings Through BPM & Communications-Enabled Business Processes

Join us to learn how to save your organization up to 300% through Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) and Communications Enabled Business Processes (CEBP). In this webinar you will learn how to:

• Bring your teams together to design/capture current Processes
• Edit and test to see where the bottlenecks are
• Eliminate the IT gap
• Rapidly deploy the new and improved process within the organization
• Integrate real-time communications into any process
• Start tracking the ROI in 30 days

 Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific

  Do you know your BPMS Usage Patterns? You Should!

Attend this FREE Webinar and discover how you can future-proof your BPMS investment.

BPM is one of the key drivers for the success of your business. However, it is important to ensure your enterprise BPMS meets all the possible usage patterns of this vital technology. With this understanding, you will avoid missed opportunities and unnecessary expenses, promising you will get the full value from your BPMS investment.

On Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM Eastern, Dr. Ketabchi, the pioneer of BPM, will highlight all the usage patterns an organization needs to deploy a BPMS and achieve the highest ROI with the least TCO - both now and when new usage need arise.

  Turning BPM Upside Down

      By ebizQ on April 2, 2009 5:06 PM

On Monday afternoon at the Gartner BPM Summit, I sat down with Dr. Ketabchi, the President and CEO of Savvion. Savvion has recently gone through a complete redesign and refocus, so it's worthwhile to check their website out. In this podcast, Dr. Ketabchi explains Savvion's new approach, which is 'Process makes perfect.' He also drills down on what seems like the ideal approach to these difficult times, which is the continuous improvement of business processes. Definitely give it a listen.

  BI in BPM

Listen in to this series of BI in Action podcast roundtables on embedding BI tools into Business Process Management technologies. The first podcast includes representatives from SAP, IBM, Cognos, iNetSoft and Savvion. Tune in to hear what these vendors are doing to deliver real time operational BI. Find out how to integrate real time metrics into the business process and put critical information into the hands of decision makers. Hear the different approaches of the vendors with pure play BI solutions, BPM solutions that incorporate BI, as well as full scale integration and SOA platforms.

  BPM in a Down Economy - On-Demand Podcast

In a tight economy all companies look for ways to improve upon their current investments and create more business.  The demand is on to find ways to work with less without sacrificing customer acquisition or product development.  This 28-minute podcast highlights the different ways that BPM can benefit a company through advanced process handling and improved workflow. The listener will also come away with a basic background and definition of business process management (BPM), workflow, and BPMS.

Featured Speakers:

• Sandy Kemsley, Independent Analyst & Consultant with 20 years of experience in the BPM field
• Dr. Ketabchi, CEO & Founder of Savvion