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Automate to innovate: enhance business performance with IBM process automation
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All organisations expect change, and most expect it to be fairly rapid. Yet only a handful of organi-sations are truly prepared for just how swiftly the business landscape can become unrecognisable. Organisations today must be ready to adapt and respond to marketplace changes and regulations faster than ever before – not only to reduce risk exposures but to capitalise on new opportunities and seize the competitive advantage.
Business processes are increasingly recog-nised as the key to competitive advantage and the foundation for how a company invents, provides and controls its products and services. Combining software capabilities and busi-ness expertise, business process management (BPM) can enable organisations to accelerate and sustain continuous process improvements – find out how.
Business Process Management and Service Oriented Architecture require robust and scalable information systems
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In today's rapidly changing environment, much is being said about the need for business agility, integration and optimisation. Yet agile change at the cost of business integrity and operational excellence is a fragile value proposition at best. While business agility is critical for excellence in managing change, business performance and business integrity are critical for excellence in business execution. 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.
Business Agility now: working smarter through dynamic business networks and highly agile processes
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IBM Industry Framework solutions help you quickly implement BPM, connectivity and integrations solutions that improve your agility and access to people, information and processes. These solutions provide configurable, pre-integrated, industry-specific blueprints, software and related assets to help you develop solutions that meet the indi-vidual challenges of your industry and your dynamic business network. Each is based on best practices and experience gained through thousands of successful IBM client engagements. And each can be developed and deployed over time to rapidly meet your immediate goals and grow as your business grows.
The Enterprise of the future – Global CEO study
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What will the Enterprise of the Future look like? To answer that question, we spoke with more than 1,000 CEOs from around the world. These conversations, together with our statistical and financial analysis, provide a unique perspective on the future of the enterprise.
Accelerate ROI for Business Process Management with IBM solutions designed for rapid deployments
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of software and expertise, designed to improve the performance, visibility and agility of business processes. With the right BPM solution, organisations can break down silos of information, streamline workflows and help business professionals work better by working together. IBM provides offerings to help organisations develop BPM solutions designed for rapid ROI. With IBM, organisations can start small and grow their investment over time as they realise value from BPM.
Vendor Snapshot Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap betwen process discovery and execution
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Austin-based Lombardi Software's latest offering, Blueprint, positions the vendor to extend its leadership in human-centric business process management (BPM) and takes direct aim at Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Visio as the tools of choice for process analysts. Blueprint provides a process modelling and discovery platform that blends collaboration and documentation capabilities into an easy-to-use, low cost, software-as-a-service offering that can be used by beginner to expert process analysts. To stay ahead of the pack, the platform needs to continue extending its collaborative Web 2.0 functionality as other BPM suite vendors play catch-up by introducing similar offerings. Consider Lombardi Blueprint if you need a collaborative and lightweight process discovery tool that is tailored to support geographically dispersed process discovery teams.
Dynamic Business Process Management from IBM
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Dynamic Business Process Management (BPM) powered by Smart Services-oriented Architecture (SOA)™ provided by WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition can simplify end-to-end processes, accelerate process change by 70-80% and lower IT costs by 20-50% when compared to traditional BPM. The objectives of this paper are to show how these benefits are achieved and to show how IBM can work with you in a Business Value Assessment (BVA) to quantify the benefits for your projects.
Gartner magic quadrant for Process analysis tools
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Business process analysis tools continue to grow in importance as business managers, process architects and process analysts seek to better understand, streamline and automate their business processes and communicate their needs to IT professionals. Find out what you need to know here.
Increase business agility with Business Process Management
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In a world that is becoming smarter – more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent – companies today are subject to accelerating market shifts. Economies and commodity markets are swinging rapidly, barriers to global competition are disappearing, and empowered customers are changing preferences and expec-tations faster than businesses can respond. It is clear that businesses are struggling to adapt. To survive in this new world, businesses must find ways to work smarter.
Achieve agility & profitable growth – Accelerate process automation and integration solutions with IBM Business Process Management
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Today's unpredictable and fast-moving global market place presents a substantial opportunity for businesses to optimise performance and gain a competitive advantage. Yet companies are restrained by siloed organisations, processes and systems that inhibit collaboration and stifle business flexibility. It is these very silos that prevent organisations from reacting quickly to the ongoing changes occurring in today's dynamic business network.