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