SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Savvion®, the trailblazing business process management (BPM) company, today introduced Savvion BusinessManager 7.5, an innovative Business Process Management Suite designed to allow virtually everyone throughout an enterprise to create and manage the business processes by which they operate. The new suite is the next generation of Savvion BusinessManager 7.0, first announced in November 2006.

“BusinessManager 7.5 lets employees get involved immediately in the creation, deployment and use of BPM because there is no learning curve involved,” said Dr. M.A. Ketabchi, founder, president and CEO of Savvion. “The Savvion team has learned a lot since introducing the industry’s first BPM product in 1999. We know that for a BPM initiative to be successful, it must be accessible and easy to use by all members of a business organization — and 7.5 is the first to make this truly possible.”

Business Process Management That Reflects How People Are Already Used to Working

Savvion’s new 7.5 suite is the first BPM product to introduce realistic ways for business users to model processes. Some examples include:

• Users can model and describe their processes without having to know modeling notations, much like they do with Microsoft Excel® or Project® — and use the computer’s mouse to draw process diagrams right on their computer screen.
• People working on projects such as a new product introduction, which requires process management abilities like task management and alternate paths, can convert their project activities into executable applications.
• With Communications Enabled Business Process, employees can now participate in a given process via telephone when access to a computer is not an option. The system can call them with task information and they can complete the task directly through their phone.

New Components Included in Savvion BusinessManager 7.5

Tabular Process Definition (patent pending): Allows users to easily describe their processes the way they are used to working. It automatically generates a process diagram from the tabular format of process description, and both views are always in sync. The resulting models are ready to be turned into executable applications without any conversion or modifications.

Project-Oriented Processes: This usage scenario addresses the requirements of project managers who need the strengths of both Project Portfolio Management and Business Process Management to do their work effectively. They can create processes with project-like layout, specify milestones and phases, perform path and timeline analysis, and even import existing project definitions from Microsoft Project®.

Business Scheduler: Business Scheduler addresses large-scale scheduling requirements to automate and run scheduled activities and processes. This powerful component allows users to create and manage schedules of various process and non-process activities with complete run-time monitoring support.

Document Management System Connectors: Connectors to Documentum™ and Alfresco™ enable managing documents in these respective document management systems, and provide seamless interoperation with BusinessManager. These connectors help enterprises leverage already-existing document management systems in process solutions built with Savvion BusinessManager 7.5.

Several Additional Major Product Improvements

Process Modeler and BPM Studio include a new gestures feature that empowers business users with a pen and tablet PC-based approach for process modeling. A new extended AJAX-based form designer gives business users drag-drop re-usable — and easy-to-understand — user interface widgets. A re-designed simulation module with a variety of graphical and spreadsheet reporting functions lets users perform sophisticated what-if analyses. The product also addresses some of the key “pain points” of modeling by providing intelligent process auto-layout and printing functionality so that the visual arrangement of activities in complex processes is easy to follow.

Additionally, the BusinessManager portal has been completely re-designed using Web 2.0, AJAX and widget components that make it easier to customize and extend.

The 7.5 release supports the latest versions of application servers and databases on Windows®, Solaris®, Linux®, and AIX® platforms.

The BPMS Market Is Diverse and Fast-Growing

In her research paper # G00158118, “Four Paths Characterize BPMS Market Evolution” (June 20, 2008), Michele Cantara, Vice President, Gartner Research, estimates that the BPMS market will grow 15.1% from 2007 to 2012 — or nearly twice as fast as the market for middleware. In this same report, she outlines various BPM scenarios, pointing out that “Process thinking is becoming a core management discipline. Systems and applications are viewed as assets supporting the process perspective. Moreover, the business process requires the coordination of multiple interaction patterns across the combined resources: systems, humans, information and policies.”

Savvion’s BusinessManager 7.5 is designed to serve all such usage scenarios that Ms. Cantara identifies in her report. BusinessManager 7.5 helps accelerate the adoption of BPMS throughout the enterprise because it enables everyone in an organization’s business process community to participate in the modeling, analyzing, deployment, monitoring, and improvement of their processes without having to learn new software.

About Savvion

The world’s top-performing companies, including 20 of the Fortune 100, choose Savvion to operate more productively and profitably. As the business process trailblazer, Savvion moves enterprises beyond ordinary BPM with groundbreaking business-critical software, solutions and services that make them more competitive and cost-efficient. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Savvion can be reached at www.savvion.com or 888-544-5511.

Media Contacts

Ling Gee, Savvion marketing@savvion.com 408-330-3496
Sandra Maresca, Spiralgroup sandram@spiralgroup.com 707-869-9419

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