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Achieving Business Agility with BPM & SOA Together Technical Whitepaper
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This white paper describes the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from a business perspective. The primary audiences are leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA as a key differentiator for successful enterprises in their drive toward business agility.
BPM & SOA Require Robust & Scalable Information Systems Technical Whitepaper
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This white paper describes the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from an information system perspective. The primary audiences are IT leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA in support of business integrity and operational excellence.
Creating a Scalable and Efficient Infrastructure for SOA and BPM
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It is clear that service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) are synergistic. BPM provides us the tools and techniques for understanding our business processes, the use of business resources in conducting those processes, automation of those processes to gain more efficiency and analysis for optimising and gaining better insight into how our business is functioning within our marketplaces. This paper outlines how IBM's software products are designed to create a mission-critical infrastructure that exhibits key transactional strengths in support of our BPM and SOA goals.
Business agility now: establishing a dynamic business network through highly agile, interconnected processes case study
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Business networks are changing as relationships become more dynamic between employees, customers, partners and suppliers-all of whom are constantly shift-ing and being re-evaluated. The same technologies that are creating a smarter planet are driving the need for a more dynamic business network. Your customers demand lightning-fast responsiveness and increasing levels of personalisation in service. If you can't meet their needs, they will go elsewhere. Your competition and your partners rapidly appear on the scene, or shift business models, or disappear as quickly as they arrived. Regulations and compliance demands shape and reshape the way you do business every day.
Making the Case for BPM Whitepaper
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For several years running, Business Process Management (BPM) has become a top priority for companies. CIOs and IT executives continue to place business process improvement as the top business priority for their IT organisations.1,2,3Ofcourse, there are many options for improving business processes-ranging from complete process reengineering to adopting new process management methodologies, like Lean Six Sigma, or adding new capabilities to existing systems. At Lombardi, an IBM company, we believe that an investment in BPM software, while leveraging proven methodologies and best practices, is the best investment companies can make in delivering sustainable business process improvement.